Mélanie Laurent as actress, director and screenwriter
Mélanie Laurent was born February 21, 1983 in Paris, France. She is the daughter of Annick Laurent, a ballet teacher, and Pierre Laurent, a voice actor, who is most recognized for the French version of The Simpsons (1989). She has a younger brother, Mathieu, and has both Sephardi Jewish (from Tunisia) and Ashkenazi Jewish (from Poland) ancestry. In 1998, Laurent was visiting the set of Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999) with a friend when she caught the attention of Gérard Depardieu. He offered her a role in his next film The Bridge (1999). She only played a small role, but it was enough to further Mélanie’s interest in acting.
Mélanie Laurent gave birth to her 1st child at age 30, a son Léo on September 30, 2013. Returned to work 6 months after giving birth to her son Léo to begin filming Boomerang (2015). In 2019 she gave birth to second child, a girl named Mila. As of 2019, the family lives in Los Angeles.
Selected filmography as actrees
- Sulak (2024)
- Le Déluge / The Flood (2024)
- Voleuses / Wingwomen (2023)
- Murder Mystery 2 (2023)
- Tempête / Ride Above (2022)
- Le bal des folles / The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
- Oxygène / Oxygen (2021)
- Little America, S01 E04 The Silence (2020)
- 6 Underground (2019)
- Operation Finale (2018)
- Mia et le lion blanc / Mia and the White Lion (2018)
- L'autostoppeuse / The Hitchhiker (2018)
- Le retour du héros / Return of the Hero (2018)
- La Vida Breve from de Falla (2017)
- Mon garçon / My Son (2017)
- Les derniers Parisiens / Paris Prestige (2016)
- Éternité / Eternity (2016)
- Demain / Tomorrow (2015)
- By the Sea (2015)
- Boomerang (2015)
- Aloft (2014)
- Enemy (2014)
- Now You See Me (2013)
- Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
- Les adoptés / The Adopted (2011)
- Et soudain, tout le monde me manque / The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011)
- Requiem pour une tueuse / Requiem for a Killer (2011)
- Beginners (2010)
- La rafle / The Round Up (2010)
- Jusqu'à toi / Every Jack Has a Jill (2009)
- L'une chante, l'autre aussi (2009)
- Le concert / The Concert (2009)
- Inglourious Basterds (2009)
- Objet Trouvé (2008)
- The Business Trip / Voyage d'affaires (2008)
- Paris (2008)
- La chambre des morts / Room of Death (2007)
- Le tueur / The Killer (2007)
- Beluga (2007)
- L'amore nascosto / Hidden Love (2007)
- Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas / Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2007)
- Dikkenek (2006)
- Indigènes / Days of Glory (2006)
- Les visages d'Alice (2005)
- De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
- Le dernier jour / The Last Day (2004)
- Hainan ji fany (2004)
- Une vie à t'attendre (2004)
- La faucheuse (2003)
- Jean Moulin, une affaire française (2003)
- Snowboarder (2003)
- Embrassez qui vous voudrez / Summer Things (2002)
- Ceci est mon corps / This Is My Body (2001)
- Route de nuit (2000)
- Un pont entre deux rives / The Bridge (1999)
- Les malheurs de Sophie 1998
As director, screenwriter
- The Nightingale (2025)
- Sulak (2024) + writer
- Voleuses / Wingwomen (2023) + writer
- Mylène Farmer: Rallumer les étoiles (2023)
- Le bal des folles / The Mad Women's Ball (2021) + writer
- Galveston (2018)
- Plonger / Diving (2017) + screenplay
- Demain / Tomorrow (2015)
- Respire / Breathe (2014) + writer
- Surpêche (2012) + writer, editor
- Les adoptés / The Adopted (2011) + scenario and dialogue
- X-femmes — episode S1.E6 À ses pieds (2008) + writer
- De moins en moins (2008) + scenario and dialogue
As producer
- Sous emprise / No Limit (2022)
- Surpêche (2012)