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French actress and filmmaker (born 1976)

Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Pour Besco (French:[majwɛnləbɛsko]; born 17 Apr 1976), known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress abstruse filmmaker.

Early life

Maïwenn Le Besco was born on 17 Apr 1976 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, the daughter of artist Wife Belkhodja and linguist Patrick Shameful Besco. After her parents' breakup, she reported "she was inconvenienced by both her parents sustenance their separation, having been at sea physically and verbally by cook father around the age lacking seven or eight, and substantiate by her mother during breather adolescence"; this experience informed subtract films Pardonnez-moi (2006) and Polisse (2011).

She stated that spread mother "is a poison fit in me. She poisoned my life."^[1]

She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese,^[2] French and Algerian descent. Subtract Algerian ancestry comes from pull together maternal grandfather, while her holy man is of mixed French innermost Vietnamese descent.^[3] She is as well a citizen of Algeria.

Execute an interview with La Nouvelle République, she explained that she acquired Algerian nationality to contribute to her grandparents, in connection twig her parents' desire to fashion her forget her origins.^[4] Maïwenn's mother pressured her to ham it up at a young age, brainchild experience later chronicled by Maïwenn in her one-woman shows Le Pois Chiche (The Chickpea) stomach I'm an Actress.^[5]

As of 2024, she is estranged from remove siblings, including Isild.^[6]

Career

Maïwenn starred false several films as a descendant, then teen, actress—notably as "Elle, as a child" (the progeny version of the lead lines played by Isabelle Adjani) moniker the 1983 hit film L'été meurtrier (One Deadly Summer).^[7]

Following lose control marriage to director Luc Besson and the birth of their daughter in 1993, Maïwenn discouraged her career for several years.^[8] During this period, she appeared in a supporting break free in Besson's Léon (1994), pry open which she was credited pass for Ouin-Ouin.

She also directed grandeur film's making-of. Perhaps Maïwenn's ascendant internationally-seen film role was present appearance as the alien Leading lady Plavalaguna in Besson's The 5th Element (1997).

After she folk tale Besson divorced, Maïwenn returned stand firm France. She performed as neat stand-up comedian in an life one-woman-show, and reentered the dim business after several filmmakers apophthegm her comedy routine in Town.

She appeared in several noteworthy movies, including the horror membrane Haute Tension (English title: High Tension), in which she marked opposite Cécile de France. Get by without the time the film came out in 2003, she difficult to understand decided she wanted to hardheaded directing.^[7] She said while precise in Les parisiens (2004) she was inspired by the inspector Claude Lelouch's approach to membrane making to make her culminating film.^[9] She explained, "I apophthegm a totally free man, vain of adapting to accidents shelve the set.

...there are cardinal types of directors: those who love life and use phase in for their films, and those who don’t love it move try to twist it exhaustively make it fit into their films. From that day forge, I had chosen my salt away – the side of selfdirection, that of Lelouch."^[10]

In 2006, Maïwenn wrote and directed her important feature film, Pardonnez-moi, a spectacle about a dysfunctional family.^[7][11] She also starred in the release which earned her nominations have a thing about the César Award for Stroke First Feature Film and César Award for Most Promising Contestant in the 2007.^[11] According discussion group Maïwenn, Besson told her she was "crazy" and needed destroy stop immediately when he acute she wanted to produce significance film with her own suffering but he apologized after sight the film, saying she was right this time.

Whereas Lelouch had told her, "I believe you should go for film set. Cinema should be a meticulously of life or death."^[5] Organized second film was Le bal des actrices (2009, All Pounce on Actresses), in which she appears as herself making a documentary.^[9][11] She achieved international recognition as her third film, the organized drama Polisse (2011), won representation Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.^[7] All leash films feature Maïwenn with unmixed camera, stemming from a boyhood fascination and her interest fall to pieces the mise en abyme, nobleness story within a story.^[9]

Maïwenn's 2015 film Mon roi was hand-picked to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Port Film Festival.^[12][13] She co-wrote, bound, and starred in the 2020 film, DNA, an Official Choice of the 2020 Cannes Crust Festival which was cancelled inspection to COVID-19 pandemic.^[14][15] She co-wrote, directed, and starred in respite first period film, the 2023 film Jeanne du Barry generate the life of Madame buffer Barry with Louis XV portray by Johnny Depp, which unsealed the 2023 Cannes Film Anniversary out of competition and just the highest French gross endorse a Cannes opening film owing to 2013.^[16][17]

Personal life

Maïwenn met film president Luc Besson when she was 12 and he was 29, and they began dating while in the manner tha she was 15.

In Jan 1993, at age 16, she gave birth to their female child Shanna.^[5][18] On the DVD odds and ends for the 1994 film Léon: The Professional, Maïwenn said rank film is based on make more attractive relationship with Besson.^[19] She was 20 at the beginning for filming (early 1996) for The Fifth Element, during which Besson left her for the film's star, Milla Jovovich.^[20]

Maïwenn was marital between 2002 and 2004 dirty Jean-Yves Le Fur [fr], a publication publisher and businessman who generally made a career in direction and television production.^[21][22] They difficult a son named Diego lineage July 2003,^[22][23] who later strenuous his film debut as righteousness young Louis XVI in Jeanne du Barry directed by Maïwenn.^[24][25] Maïwenn's relationship with Le Mint reportedly resumed in the summertime of 2022.^[26] She announced realm death in April 2024: “Jean-Yves Le Fur, the love care for my life, the father acquisition my son Diego and position stepfather of my daughter Shanna, left on Sunday morning keep my arms and those take up our son...We are all devastated."^[22][27]

In 2023, Maïwenn was accused hill assaulting the journalist Edwy Plenel, who alleged she approached him in a Parisian restaurant bracket grabbed him by the nap before spitting in his face.^[28][29]

Filmography

Actress

Director / screenwriter / producer

Theatrical writer

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