MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
French nationality
Birth July 3, 1979 (Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine – France)
BIOGRAPHY
Member of the “Un Certain Regard” Jury of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival .
After eight years of theater classes in Sèvres, Ludivine Sagnier entered the Versailles Conservatory of Dramatic Art in 1994, where she won first prizes in the classical competition and the modern competition. She made her film debut in 1988 in Les Maris, les femmes, les amants as well as in short films, including Animated Acid which allowed her to win the Lutin for Best Actress in 1999.
After small roles in Les Enfants du siècle and Rembrandt , she starred under the direction of François Ozon in Water Drops on Burning Stones (2000), an adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play Tropfen auf heisse Steine . Their collaboration continued with the sung comedy 8 femmes (2002), where she starred opposite actresses as prestigious as Catherine Deneuve and Fanny Ardant . This film is an opportunity for the actress to try her hand at singing, an experience that she repeated in 2007 in the musical film Les Chansons d’amour by Christophe Honoré . In 2003, his mentor François Ozon definitively established his status as a sex symbol in the thriller Swimming Pool .
Her career launched, she embarked on a trip across Europe in Bon plan (2000), played a babysitter for the couple Charles Berling / Karin Viard in Child’s Play (2001), then lent herself on three occasions in the game of dubbing for cartoons The playground: long live the holidays! , The Legend of Parva and Gang of Sharks . She continues on this path full of magic, joining the international casting of Peter Pan where she plays the mutinous Tinkerbell under the direction of PJ Hogan .
In 2003, she filmed La Petite Lili by Claude Miller , which she found in 2007 in Un secret , the adaptation of the novel by Philippe Grimbert . On the set of An Adventure , she formed a relationship with Nicolas Duvauchelle , with whom she had her first child. Accustomed to the role of seductress, the actress changed register in 2006 in California . Directed by Jacques Fieschi, she plays Hélène, the daughter of Nathalie Baye . A year later, Claude Chabrol put her in the role of The Girl Cut in Two , shared between Benoît Magimel and François Berléand . After playing the role of Sylvia Jeanjacquot, Mesrine’s determined companion in the diptych of the same name , she slips into the skin of a manipulated and manipulative young woman under the direction of Alain Corneau in his feminine thriller, Crime d love . In 2010, she became Diane Kruger
‘s sister for Fabienne Berthaud ‘s film , Pieds nus sur les limaces , in which she played an exuberant and mysterious young woman, ready to do anything to have fun and feel free. The following year, Christophe Honoré called upon her talents as an actress and singer a second time for his musical film Les Bien-aimers (2011). She plays Madeleine, a light young woman from the 60s, played in the 2000s by Catherine Deneuve . Also in 2011, Ludivine Sagnier renewed the experience of dubbing by lending her voice to the character of Maud in the animated film Un Monstre à Paris and played again in English in The Devil’s Double by New Zealand director Lee Tamahori , eight years old after Peter Pan . French cinema continues to call on her, particularly for comedies, such as Amour & turbulences , Tristesse Club and Lou! Tiny Journal . She then returned to the thriller genre with La Résistance de l’air by Franco-Canadian director Fred Grivois , in which she opposite the very fashionable Reda Kateb .
