Virginie Ledoyen

Virginie Fernández (born 15 November 1976),^[1][2] known by her stage name Virginie Ledoyen (French: [viʁʒini lədwajɛ̃]), is a French actress. She has appeared in French, English and American films.

Virginie Ledoyen
Ledoyen in 2015
Born	Virginie Fernández (1976-11-15) 15 November 1976 (age 48) Paris, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1986–present
Spouse	Iain Rogers ​ ​ (m. 2006; div. 2007)​
Partners	Louis Soubrier (1995–2005) Arie Elmaleh (2007-2015)
Children	3

Life and career

Ledoyen was born in Paris and raised in Aubervilliers, the daughter of Olga, a restaurateur, and Bernard Fernández, a merchant who sold cleaning products and knives.^[3] Her paternal grandfather was Spanish.^[4] She was a print model from the age of two and later took on the stage name "Ledoyen" after the maiden name of her maternal grandmother, who was a stage actress.

Ledoyen's film breakthrough came with A Single Girl (1995) (stylized la fille seule), for which she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She also received two César Award nominations for Les marmottes (1993) and L'eau froide (1994). Outside France, her best-known role is in The Beach (2000). In the fall of 2000, she signed a contract as a spokesmodel with the cosmetics company L'Oréal. She was featured alongside two models, Laetitia Casta and Noémie Lenoir. She portrayed the character Cosette in the 2000 French television miniseries of Les Misérables.

On 29 September 2001, Ledoyen gave birth to her first child, a girl named Lila, with production designer Louis Soubrier, whom she met on the set of La fille seule in 1995. She was in a short-lived marriage with Iain Rogers, a film director, from 2006 to 2007. From 2007 to 2015,^[5] she was in a relationship with actor Arie Elmaleh, whose brother was her co-star in The Valet. Ledoyen and Elmaleh have a son, Isaac, born in July 2010, and a daughter, Amalia, born in April 2014.^[6][7]

In 2013 Ledoyen was named as a member of the jury at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.^[8]

Filmography

Ledoyen at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Ledoyen at the 2012 Berlinale.

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Exploits of a Young Don Juan	Berthe
1988	La Vie en panne	Joëlle	TV mini-series
1990	Haute tension	Dominique (15-year-old)	TV series
1991	Mima	Mima
1991	The Children Thief	Gabrielle
1992	Mouche		Incomplete
1993	Les Marmottes	Samantha	Nominated—César Award for Most Promising Actress
1994	La Folie douce	Charlie Léger
1994	La Règle de l'homme	Violette	Telefilm
1994	Cold Water	Christine	Nominated—César Award for Most Promising Actress
1995	A Single Girl	Valérie Sergent	Nominated—César Award for Most Promising Actress
1995	La Cérémonie	Melinda
1995	La Vie de Marianne	Marianne	Telefilm
1995	Sur la route		Short film
1995	Les Sensuels		Telefilm
1996	Mahjong	Marthe
1997	Ma 6-T va crack-er	The girl with the pistol
1997	Héroïnes	Johanna
1998	The Perfect Guy	Jeanne	Paris Film Festival - Best Actress
1998	A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries	Billy's Mother
1998	Late August, Early September	Anne
1998	In All Innocence	Cécile Maudet
2000	The Beach	Françoise	Nominated—Teen Choice Award - Choice Movie: Chemistry
2001	All About Love	Maria
2002	8 Women	Suzon	Berlin Film Festival - Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement European Film Award for Best Actress
2002	Les Misérables	Cosette	TV mini-series
2003	Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ?	The cleaning lady
2003	Bon Voyage	Camille
2004	Saint Ange	Anna Jurin
2006	The Valet	Émilie
2006	Holly	Marie
2006	The Backwoods	Lucy
2006	La Forteresse assiégée	L'impératrice Eugénie	Telefilm
2007	Shall We Kiss?	Judith
2008	London mon amour	Audrey Morraine
2008	L'Emmerdeur	Louise
2009	The Army of Crime	Mélinée Manouchian
2009	Myster Mocky présente		TV series
2010	Tout ce qui brille	Agathe
2011	The Last Beast	Clémence
2011	XIII: The Series	Irina	TV series
2011	The Shape of Art to Come		Short film
2012	Farewell, My Queen	Gabrielle de Polignac
2013	Another Life	Dolorès
2013	Scènes de ménages		TV series
2013	À votre bon cœur, mesdames	Lisa
2014	Ablations	Léa Cartalas
2014	Le Monde de Fred	Herself
2014	Enragés	La femme
2015	Rabid Dogs	The Woman
2016	Accro
2018	MILF	Cécile
2018	Remi, Nobody's Boy
2019	Notre Dame	Coconut
2019	A Magical Journey	Mother
2020	Capitain Marleau	Anne Duplesis	TV series
2020	Ils étaient dix	Barbara	TV series
2021	Nona et ses filles	Emmanuelle	TV series
2022	L'île aux 30 cercueils	Christine Vorksy	TV series
2022	The King's Favorite	Anne of Pisseuleu	TV series
2023	Homecoming	Sylvia
	Just the Two of Us
2024	Le mangeur d'âmes	Commandant Elisabeth GUARDIANO

Other awards

• 1998: Prix Suzanne Bianchetti

References

1. "Virginie Ledoyen Biography". Fandango. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
2. Brooks, Xan (15 November 2002). "DiCaprio? I wouldn't wish his life on anybody". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
3. Lydia Slater (10 April 2012). "And God Created Virginie". ES Magazine. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022.
4. Janine di Giovanni (5 May 2009). "Virginie Ledoyen: ten years after starring in The Beach". ES Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 May 2009.
5. Yakoubaly, Samya (10 April 2015). "Virginie Ledoyen et Arié Elmaleh séparés : Fin du couple après huit ans d'amour". PurePeople. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022.
6. "Virginie Ledoyen et Arié Elmaleh révèlent le prénom de leur fille". TF1. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
7. "La biographie de Virginie Ledoyen". Première. 15 November 1976. Archived from the original on 29 July 2022.
8. "Juries and Awards of the 70th Venice Film Festival". labiennale. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.

External links

• Virginie Ledoyen at IMDb
• Virginie Ledoyen at Fashion Model Directory
• Virginie Ledoyen at AllMovie