Ludivine Sagnier
| Ludivine Sagnier | |
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 Sagnier at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival |
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| Born | 3 July 1979 La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | actress/model |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Children | 2 daughters |
Ludivine Sagnier (born 3 July 1979) is a French actress and model, who has appeared in 33 films since 1989. She was nominated for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Swimming Pool (2003) and Un secret (2007).
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[edit] Early life
Sagnier was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the département of Yvelines; her mother is a retired secretary and her father is a professor of English at the Paris University.[1] She started taking acting classes at a young age and made her film debut at age 10 in I Want to Go Home and Les maris, les femmes, les amants (both released in 1989).
[edit] Career
In 2001, Sagnier was named one of the Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion. She was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 8 Women (2002). She performed in two films in competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, La Petite Lili and Swimming Pool, both released in the same year. Also in 2003, she won the Prix Romy Schneider.
Sagnier has appeared completely nude in extended scenes in several films, including Water Drops on Burning Rocks, Bon plan (both released in 2000), and La Petite Lili. In the Francois Ozon's film Swimming Pool, Sagnier appears topless in more than half of her scenes in the film.[2] Addressing this issue, Sagnier told Playboy:
"I'm much more confident in front of a camera, hidden by a character, enhanced by makeup, so I can go much further than I can in real life. Sexual acting is painful, because even though you're pretending, you have the skin of the person in front of you, and it's not the skin you wish you had. After that, you run into the shower to get rid of everything".[3]
She appeared in P. J. Hogan's 2003 adaptation of Peter Pan, as Tinkerbell. The film marked the first time Tinkerbell had been portrayed by a live actress in a sound film of J.M. Barrie's original play, rather than merely as a bolt of moving light.
In 2005, she recorded a series of introductions for Sky Movies. These included intros to several films.
Three films starring Ludivine Sagnier screened in Los Angeles in 2011. Pieds nus sur les limaces (Lily Sometimes) was shown at the City of Angels, City of Light Festival in April. Love Crime and The Devil's Double were shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June.
[edit] Partial filmography
- 1989 : I Want to Go Home
- 1989 : Les maris, les femmes, les amants
- 1999 : Recess - Ashley Spinelli (French dub)
- 2000 : La banquise (TV)
- 2000 : Water Drops on Burning Rocks by François Ozon
- 2000 : Bon plan by Jérôme Lévy
- 2001 : Un jeu d'enfants by Laurent Tuel
- 2001 : Ma femme est une actrice by Yvan Attal
- 2002 : 8 femmes by François Ozon
- 2003 : Petites coupures by Pascal Bonitzer
- 2003 : Swimming Pool by François Ozon
- 2003 : La Petite Lili by Claude Miller
- 2003 : Peter Pan by P. J. Hogan
- 2005 : Une aventure by Xavier Giannoli
- 2005 : Foon
- 2006 : Thérèse Raquin
- 2006 : La Californie
- 2006 : Paris, je t'aime
- 2007 : Les Chansons d'amour
- 2007 : Molière
- 2007 : Un secret
- 2007 : La Fille Coupée en Deux
- 2008 : Public Enemy Number One
- 2010 : Love Crime
- 2010 : A Monster in Paris
- 2011 : The Devil's Double
- 2011 : Les bien-aimés
[edit] References
- ^ Tang, Jean (6 July 2003). "MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE". The Boston Globe. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FC23FEBC020D6D0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM.
- ^ Dermansky, Marcy. "Swimming Pool". About.com. http://worldfilm.about.com/cs/frenchfilm/fr/swimmingpool.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ Walton, Rob. "Woman on the Verge - Ludivine Sagnier". Playboy. http://www.playboy.com/arts-entertainment/wov/sagnier/. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ Lawlor, Michael Jack. "Ludivine Sagnier's Wounded Souls". http://www.transmopolis.com/2011/09/ludivine_sagnier/.
[edit] External links
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- Ludivine Sagnier at AlloCiné (French)
