Ludivine Sagnier

Height
5' 3" (1.60 m)
Mini Biography
The French actress Ludivine Sagnier was born on July 3, 1979 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in France's Yvelines département. Ludivine studied actiung as a young girl and had made her movie debut at the age 10 in Je rentre à la maison (2001). She has established her reputation as one of the brightest young stars in French and international cinema in her collaborations with French filmmaker François Ozon, starting with "Water Drops on Burning Rocks" (based on a screenplay by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 8 femmes (2002) and in Swimming Pool (2003). For her performance in "8 Women", she won a Cesar Award nomination (the French equivalent of the Oscar) and the Romy Schneider Award that is given each year to a promising young French actress. In that film, Sagnier proved her acting prowess by distinguishing herself in a stellar cast that included the legendary actresses Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert as well as Emmanuelle Béart and Fanny Ardant. Along with these grand ladies of the Frenc cinema, Saginier won the Best Actress Award from the European Film Academy Award and the Silver Bear Award at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival
"Swimmiing Pool" represented her crossover into English-language cinema. (Sagnier played her first English language role in Toothache (2002).) Marketed in the U.S. with a comely shot of Sagnier sunbathing alongside a pool, Ozon's film became one of the biggest-grossing foreign movies in the U.S. during 2003. So far, she has turned down large monetary offers to appear in American films as the foreign girlfriend of young American superstars, as she remains committed to French cinema.
Sagnier became a mother on March 25, 2005, when she gave birth to a daughter named Bonnie by her boyfriend, French actor Nicolas Duvauchelle.
Trivia
She performed in two films in competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, Petite Lili, La (2003) and Swimming Pool (2003).
Has a scar on her lower abdomen as the result of a peritonitis operation. During the operation, the doctors found a tumour on her stomach. Luckily, the tumour was benign and was also removed. No complications derived from it.
2001: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.
'P.J Hogan' decided to engage her (for the role of Tinker Bell in Peter Pan (2003) after having seen her performance in Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes (2000) by François Ozon.
Favourite actress is Liv Ullmann.
Has a sister: Delphine.
"Romy Schneider award" winner.
Daughter, Bonnie (born 25 March 2005). Father is French actor Nicolas Duvauchelle.
A native of La Salle-Saint-Cloud.
Has been acting since the age of 10.
French citizen.
Shares birthday with writer Thomas Narcejac.
Has supported Lionel Jospin's 2002 presidential campaign.
Good friends with Robinson Stevenin.
Personal Quotes
"I don't act to be popular, or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time, and
hat I look like."
" I'd say people recognize me but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true and it's better than anything else." on being recognized as Tinkerbell.
"I don't need much money to live the way I live in Paris. I'm only 23 and I don't have great material needs, but I do have big artistic ambitions..."
"The French have their double standards. For example, I don't think anyone in France could make a movie like Larry Clark's Bully, because he combines sex and violence and humor. And, recently, there was this photo of Christina Aguilera on the magazine covers, where she was naked from the back, wearing only a G-string. The French were shocked ... and called her bad names. It was a scandal for two weeks."
"It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV."
"Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese."
[On performing naked on-camera] "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. Being naked is quite a natural thing, but it's more the sexual situations. 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. I felt really dirty after I filmed all of this. It is difficult, but even if you're self-conscious in real life, when you're hidden behind a character you can bare much more."
"I don't do nudity for fame or to become popular, because that only lasts so long. Look at Brigitte Bardot...she's become a fascist and hates everyone."
Where Are They Now
(August 2005) Shooting Californie, La (2006) in the south of France.