French actress

Virginie Fernández (born 15 November 1976), known by her stage name Virginie Ledoyen (French pronunciation::​), is a French actress who has appeared in French, British and American films.

Contents

• 1 Life and career
• 2 Filmography
• 3 Other awards
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Life and career

Ledoyen was born in Aubervilliers, the daughter of Olga, a restaurateur, and Bernard Fernández, a merchant who sold cleaning products. Her paternal grandfather was Spanish. 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, Lae*ia 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, 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.

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

Filmography

Ledoyen at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Ledoyen at the 2012 Berlinale.

Other awards

• 1998: Prix Suzanne Bianchetti

References

External links

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