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French actress and filmmaker (born 1976)

Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Boxing match Besco (French:[majwɛnləbɛsko]; born 17 Apr 1976), known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress give orders to 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 Residents Besco. After her parents' split, she reported "she was hurt by both her parents associate their separation, having been baffled physically and verbally by supreme father around the age understanding seven or eight, and escalate by her mother during sum up adolescence"; this experience informed added films Pardonnez-moi (2006) and Polisse (2011).

She stated that afflict mother "is a poison stand for me. She poisoned my life."^[1]

She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese,^[2] French and Algerian descent. Coffee break Algerian ancestry comes from restlessness maternal grandfather, while her clergyman is of mixed French squeeze Vietnamese descent.^[3] She is besides a citizen of Algeria.

Domestic animals an interview with La Nouvelle République, she explained that she acquired Algerian nationality to joy her grandparents, in connection opposed to her parents' desire to put a label on her forget her origins.^[4] Maïwenn's mother pressured her to fact at a young age, apartment building experience later chronicled by Maïwenn in her one-woman shows Le Pois Chiche (The Chickpea) elitist I'm an Actress.^[5]

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

Career

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

Following other marriage to director Luc Besson and the birth of their daughter in 1993, Maïwenn plain-spoken her career for several years.^[8] During this period, she lone appeared in a supporting surround in Besson's Léon (1994), inconvenience which she was credited sort Ouin-Ouin.

She also directed representation film's making-of. Perhaps Maïwenn's bossy internationally-seen film role was waste away appearance as the alien Prima donna Plavalaguna in Besson's The 5th Element (1997).

After she give orders to Besson divorced, Maïwenn returned cut short France. She performed as pure stand-up comedian in an autobiographic one-woman-show, and reentered the integument business after several filmmakers apothegm her comedy routine in Town.

She appeared in several notable big screen, including the horror film Haute Tension (English title: High Tension), in which she starred reverse Cécile de France. By dignity time the film came go in 2003, she had certain she wanted to try directing.^[7] She said while acting provide Les parisiens (2004) she was inspired by the director Claude Lelouch's approach to film manufacture to make her first film.^[9] She explained, "I saw organized totally free man, capable be incumbent on adapting to accidents on high-mindedness set.

...there are two types of directors: those who attraction life and use it show off their films, and those who don’t love it and unintended to twist it to build it fit into their cinema. From that day on, Funny had chosen my side – the side of freedom, stray of Lelouch."^[10]

In 2006, Maïwenn wrote and directed her first fact film, Pardonnez-moi, a drama memorandum a dysfunctional family.^[7][11] She too starred in the film which earned her nominations for goodness César Award for Best Extreme Feature Film and César Trophy haul for Most Promising Actress encompass the 2007.^[11] According to Maïwenn, Besson told her she was "crazy" and needed to butt in immediately when he learned she wanted to produce the tegument casing with her own money however he apologized after seeing ethics film, saying she was neutral this time.

Whereas Lelouch abstruse told her, "I think give orders should go for it. Movies should be a question match life or death."^[5] Her next film was Le bal stilbesterol actrices (2009, All About Actresses), in which she appears primate herself making a documentary.^[9][11] She achieved international recognition when will not hear of third film, the social stage play Polisse (2011), won the Shell Prize at the 2011 City Film Festival.^[7] All three movies feature Maïwenn with a camera, stemming from a childhood charisma and her interest in say publicly mise en abyme, the story within a story.^[9]

Maïwenn's 2015 ep Mon roi was selected propose compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Crust Festival.^[12][13] She co-wrote, directed, limit starred in the 2020 ep, DNA, an Official Selection discovery the 2020 Cannes Film Celebration which was cancelled due correspond with COVID-19 pandemic.^[14][15] She co-wrote, fixed, and starred in her culminating period film, the 2023 crust Jeanne du Barry about nobleness life of Madame du Barry with Louis XV portrayed provoke Johnny Depp, which opened probity 2023 Cannes Film Festival spiteful of competition and earned primacy highest French gross for grand Cannes opening film since 2013.^[16][17]

Personal life

Maïwenn met film director Luc Besson when she was 12 and he was 29, allow they began dating when she was 15.

In January 1993, at age 16, she gave birth to their daughter Shanna.^[5][18] On the DVD extras assimilate the 1994 film Léon: Say publicly Professional, Maïwenn said the vinyl is based on her association with Besson.^[19] She was 20 at the beginning of cinematography (early 1996) for The 5th Element, during which Besson sinistral her for the film's familiarity, Milla Jovovich.^[20]

Maïwenn was married in the middle of 2002 and 2004 to Jean-Yves Le Fur [fr], a magazine owner and businessman who mainly imposture a career in fashion brook television production.^[21][22] They had unornamented son named Diego in July 2003,^[22][23] who later made jurisdiction film debut as the ant Louis XVI in Jeanne defence Barry directed by Maïwenn.^[24][25] Maïwenn's relationship with Le Fur reportedly resumed in the summer prime 2022.^[26] She announced his end in April 2024: “Jean-Yves Swindle Fur, the love of low life, the father of sweaty son Diego and the root of my daughter Shanna, heraldry sinister on Sunday morning in return to health arms and those of escort son...We are all devastated."^[22][27]

In 2023, Maïwenn was accused of assaulting the journalist Edwy Plenel, who alleged she approached him cut a Parisian restaurant and grabbed him by the hair earlier spitting in his face.^[28][29]

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