Laetitia Casta
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| Laetitia Casta | |
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 Laetitia Casta by Studio Harcourt Paris |
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| Born | Laetitia Marie Laure Casta 11 May 1978[1] Pont-Audemer, France |
| Occupation | Actress, model |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Agent | Adéquat, Hamilton Hodell, IMG |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | |
| Laetitia-Casta.fr | |
Laetitia Marie Laure Casta (born 11 May 1978) is a French actress and model. Casta became a "GUESS? Girl" in 1993 and gained further recognition as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1998 to 2000 and as a spokesperson for cosmetics company L'Oreal. She has appeared on over 100 covers of such popular magazines as Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Elle and Glamour, and modeled for designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Givenchy, Lolita Lempicka, and Vivienne Westwood. Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films Gainsbourg (A Heroic Life), Face and Blue Bicycle, as well as the play Ondine at the theatre Antoine.
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[edit] Early life
Casta was born in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France. Her mother, Line Blin, is from Normandy. Her father, Dominique Casta, is from Corsica. She has an older brother, Jean-Baptiste, and a younger sister, Marie-Ange. She spent her childhood in Normandy and Corsica.[2]
[edit] Career
Casta's modeling career reportedly began when she was discovered by the photographer Frederic Cresseaux,[3] during a family holiday in her father's native Corsica, at age 15.[4] After her unexpected registration by Jeeby, Casta has been elected Miss Lumio 93.[5]
Casta is the L'Oréal Paris brand ambassador since 1998.[6] She has been featured in Guess? Jeans, Tommy Hilfiger, Miu Miu, Pepe Jeans, Alberta Ferretti and XOXO ad campaigns. Casta has appeared on over 100 magazine covers including Victoria's Secret catalogs, ELLE magazine, and Vogue magazine. She walked down the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000. Casta was one of the company's signature Victoria' Secret Angels from 1998 to 2000. She also appeared in three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues, Rolling Stone, and the Pirelli Calendar 1999 by Herb Ritts and 2000 by Annie Leibovitz.
She is the face of fragrances Chanel's Allure, Givenchy's Forbidden flower, Cacharel's Promise, Bulgari's BLV II, Ralph Lauren's Notorious. The Parisians could follow her Adventures in the Galeries Lafayette by Jean-Paul Goude.[7] For Christmas 2011, Peter Lindbergh shot True Love, the very thought of Casta at the summit of Manhattan and between the snowy lions of marble of the New York Public Library for Tiffany & Co.[8]
On 10 March 2010 in Paris, she opened the Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2010 fashion show.[9] On 27 September 2010, she closed the Roberto Cavalli SS 2011 fashion show in Milan.[10]
For her first movie, Casta has made forays into the blockbuster Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar directed by Claude Zidi, a live-action film of the comic book Asterix created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in which Obelix, portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, plays a love interest for Falbala.[11] Casta appeared in Les Âmes Fortes, a dramatic film directed by Raùl Ruiz.[12] Her interpretation of Brigitte Bardot in the movie Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) revealed the actress [13] who received her first nomination at the César Award.
[edit] Political involvement
On 6 April 2008, Casta demonstrated in a White March of nonviolent protestation to ask for the immediate release of Ingrid Betancourt, presidential candidate kidnapped since 2002 by the FARC.[14]
On 30 April 2002, she attended the demonstration Vive la République to defend the French Republic, the freedom of the culture and arts after the first round election of the 2002 presidential election.[15]
[edit] As Marianne
In 1999, Casta was ranked first in a national survey ordered by the French Mayors Association to decide who should be the new model for the bust of Marianne, an allegorical symbol of the French Republic, which stands inside every French town hall.[16]
She won from a shortlist of five candidates, scoring 36% among the 15,000 voting mayors. The other candidates were Estelle Hallyday, Patricia Kaas, Daniela Lumbroso, Lætitia Milot and Nathalie Simon.[17] Shortly thereafter a mini-scandal shook France, after it was publicised that Casta — the new icon of the Republic — had relocated to London. Although she claimed that her move was motivated by practical professional reasons, the magazine Le Point, among others, suggested that she was trying to escape taxes.[18]
[edit] Personal life
On 19 October 2001, Casta gave birth to her daughter, Sahteene. The father is Stéphane Sednaoui. Casta is engaged to Italian actor Stefano Accorsi. The couple have two children, a son named Orlando, born on 21 September 2006, and a daughter named Athenà, born on 29 August 2009.[19]
[edit] Awards and recognition
| Year | Award | By | Result |
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| 2012 | (Knight in Order of Arts and of Letters) | France Minister of Culture and of Communication | |
| 2011 |
Nominated for the César Award of the Best Supporting Actress as Brigitte Bardot in Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) |
César Awards | Nominated |
| 2008 |
Golden Swann of the Best Actress as Catherine in Born in 68 |
Cabourg Film Festival (French) | Won |
| 2001 | Ranked No. 1 Top 50 Most Beautiful Women [20] | Askmen.com | |
| 1999 | Marianne for the 21st century [16] | 82nd congress of AMF, the French Mayors Association | Won |
[edit] Theatre
| Year | Play | Role | Playwright | Stage Director | Theatre | City | Review |
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| 2008 | (She is waiting for you) | Anna [21] | Florian Zeller | Florian Zeller | the Madeleine | Paris 8th | Madame Figaro [22] |
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2005 2004 |
Ondine | Ondine [21] | Jean Giraudoux | Jacques Weber |
Tour in regions Antoine - Simone Berriau |
Paris 10th | L'Humanité [24] |
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Director | Notes |
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| 2012 | (Tied) | Betty? | Hélène Fillières | |
| Arbitrage | Julie Cote | Nicholas Jarecki | ||
| Do not disturb | Anna | Yvan Attal | ||
| 2011 | (The War of the Buttons) | Simone | Christophe Barratier | |
| (Behind the Walls) | Suzanne | Pascal Sid | ||
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Островът (Bulgarian) (The Island) |
Sophie | Kamen Kalev |
First film with English dialogue |
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| Rio | Perla (Jewel) | Carlos Saldanha | ||
| 2010 | (Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life) | Brigitte Bardot | Joann Sfar | Nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress Performs Gainsbourg's songs on the soundtrack |
| 2009 | (Face) 臉 (Chinese) | Salomé | Tsai Ming-Liang | |
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Fleurs dans le miroir, moon in the water) |
herself, Salomé | François Lunel | ||
| 2008 | (Born in 68) | Catherine | Jacques Martineau | Cabourg: Golden Swann of the Best Actress |
| (The Maiden and the Wolves) | Angèle Amblard | Gilles Legrand | ||
| 2007 | (Charlotte's Web) | Charlotte A. Cavatica | Gary Winick | |
| 2006 | (The Big Apartment) | Francesca Cigalone | Pascal Thomas | |
| (The Irrationality of the Louvre) | The young woman | Ange Leccia | Short film without dialog shot in the Louvre museum[25] for which Casta was for the first time in cover of Les Cahiers du Cinéma.[26][27] | |
| (Nymphaea) | The naiad | Ange Leccia | Short film | |
| 2004 | Luisa Sanfelice | Luisa Sanfelice | Vittorio Taviani | TV film for France2, RAI Uno |
| 2003 | (Wandering) | Lou | Damien Odoul | |
| 2002 | (Love Street) | Marion | Patrice Leconte | Performs on the soundtrack |
| 2001 | (Savage Souls) | Thérèse | Raoul Ruiz | |
| 2000 | (The Blue Bicycle) | Léa Delmas | Thierry Binisti | TV film for France2 |
| Gitano | Lucia Junco | Manuel Palacios | ||
| 1999 | (Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar) | Falbala | Claude Zidi |
[edit] Music videos
| Year | Singer | Song | Director | Notes |
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| 2010 | Rihanna | Te Amo | Anthony Mandler | |
| 1999 | Chris Isaak | Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing | Herb Ritts | |
| 1998 | Sting | Terre d'Oru(English)(Corsican)(Greek) | Stefano Salvati |
[edit] DVD and Blu-ray
| Year | Title | Distribution | Language | Region | Notes |
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| 2007 | Laetitia Casta | StudioCanal | French | 2 | with Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Bergé, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Dominique Issermann, Sylvie Lancrenon, Jamel Debbouze, Omar Sy & Fred Testot, Frédéric Lopez, Jean-Paul Goude, Jacques Weber, Claude Zidi |
[edit] Humanitarian action
| Year | Association | Comment |
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| 2010 | Porteurs d'Eau (French) | The Ondine in Casta is Water-carrier with the support of France Libertés - Danielle-Mitterrand foundation (French) |
| 2006 | Rose Marie Claire (French) | Casta among Claire Chazal, Isabelle Adjani, Axelle Red, Monica Bellucci and Tina Kieffer with the Rose Marie Claire (French) are shot by Jeff Manzetti for the association Toutes à l'école (French) |
| 2005 | 2005 Plus d'Excuses | Make Poverty History Click: Global Call to Action Against Poverty. Click is a video clip by Patrice Leconte featuring Casta the time of a snap of the fingers. |
| Action Innocence | Casta belongs to the Committee of support of Action Innocence to protect the children from the dangers of the Internet. | |
| 2004 | ELA | On a wooden horse, Casta wears giant sneakers for the ELA's book Tous en baskets having the spokesperson Zinedine Zidane |
| OrphanAid Africa | Shot by Christophe Kutner, Casta between Inès de la Fressange and Cécile de France wears love beads (French) (2nd tab) for OrphanAid Africa founded by Lisa Lovatt-Smith. | |
| Médias Handicap (French) | Casta supports Sébastien Proyart, the founder of Média Handicap | |
| Action Contre la Faim | Casta drew a winged blue heart on a plate for the bidding of 19 November 2004 to help Action against Hunger | |
| 2002 | Occi, paese rinascitu (Corsican) | In the headquarters of the association Occi recovered village at the Caffè di a Mossa of Lumio in Corsica, Casta helped to reconstruct the old chapel of Annunziata in the abandoned village of Occi.[28] Watch the Occi video on YouTube by official Korsika.fr |
| 1999 | Restos du cœur | Dernière édition avant l'an 2000 (Last edition before year 2000), Les Enfoirés [29] a charity concert tour at the Zénith for the Coluche's association Restaurants du Cœur that collects food for the homeless. |
[edit] Books
- Issermann, Dominique (January 2012). Xavier Barral. ed (in French). Laetitia Casta. ISBN 978-2-36511-004-4.
- Sapin, Mathieu (20 January 2010). Delcourt. ed (in French). Feuille de chou 1. Journal d'un tournage. ISBN 978-2-7560-1857-7.
- Marciano, Paul (1 July 2002). A Second Decade of Guess Images: 1991-2001. Gingko Press. ISBN 978-0-9636728-1-0.
- Trémolet, Laurence (March 2002). Rézina, Collectionneur. ed. Dans l'ombre des âmes fortes. ISBN 978-2-909450-87-2.
- Reilly, Rick; Steven, Hoffman (28 September 2001). Sports Illustrated: Knockouts, Five Decades of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Photography. Sports Illustrated. ISBN 978-1-929049-47-9.
- Casta, Laetitia (24 November 1999). Assouline. ed (in French). Laetitia Casta. ISBN 978-2-84323-179-7.
- Di Caro, Roberto; Heath, Christopher (1 September 1999). Callaway. ed. Laetitia Casta. Viking Studio. ISBN 978-0-67088-819-1.
[edit] References
- ^ FMD profile. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
- ^ Laetitia Casta, Assouline 1999, p. 12
- ^ Laetitia Casta's biography by Vogue Paris
- ^ Laetitia Casta, Assouline 1999, p. 15
- ^ Laetitia Casta Official: Miss Lumio 93(French)
- ^ L'Oréal Paris, Laetitia Casta's biography
- ^ Jean-Paul Goude official: Work > Advertising > Photography
- ^ Laetitia Casta's campaigns, Alla Rosa Production
- ^ Mower, Sarah (10 March 2010). Style, Louis Vuitton Fall 2010, Paris
- ^ Style, Roberto Cavalli Spring Summer 2011 RTW, Milan 27 September 2010
- ^ Elley, Derek (31 January 1999). Asterix & Obelix Vs. Caesar, Variety
- ^ Laetitia Casta cuts teeth on Serious Film International Herald Tribune, 29 May 2001.
- ^ Aftab, Kaleem (16 January 2010). Saga of a tormented artist's highs and lows, The Independent
- ^ White March for Ingrid Betancourt(French), INA, 6 April 2008.
- ^ Demonstration Vive la République(French), France 3 TV news 19|20 by INA, 30 April 2002.
- ^ a b "The Marianne". Consulate General of France in New York. http://www.consulfrance-newyork.org/The-Marianne.
- ^ Laetitia Casta as Marianne
- ^ "France Galled by Model Move", BBC News, April 3, 2000 (English)
- ^ Sei mamma? Ti licenziano (Italian) (You are mother? You are fired), Style, 28 April 2009
- ^ "AskMen.com - Laetitia Casta former Number 1". Au.askmen.com. http://au.askmen.com/daily/austin_150/173_fashion_style.html. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ a b Laetitia Casta Officiel: Theatre(French)
- ^ Laetitia Casta : "Quand on est tendre, on est soi"(French), Madame Figaro, 23 August 2008
- ^ Ondine(German), Schauspiel von Jean Giraudoux mit Laetitia Casta, Ludwigshafen Stadt am Rhein
- ^ Devine qui vient ondiner(French), L'Humanité, 27 September 2004 by Jean-Pierre Léonardini
- ^ Danesi, Fabien. Review about The Folly of the Louvre, Films by The Louvre
- ^ Frodon, Jean Michel (April 2006). The Dream of Light. Les Cahiers du Cinéma, issue 611.
- ^ Frederic Sanchez: English > Press > Les Cahiers du Cinéma, April 2006
- ^ L'oeil de la Balagne (French), L'Express, 20 June 2007
- ^ Les Enfoirés for the Restos du cœur. Search "Casta Laetitia"
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