Bérénice BEJO

Born in Argentina, Bérénice Bejo moved to France when she was three years old. Introduced to the cinema at an early age by her parents, she started her acting career in 1998 in Abdelkrim Bahloul’s Les Soeurs Hamlet. In 2000, Gérard Jugnot gave her her first major role in Most Promising Young Actress. She then worked in the United States, notably alongside Heath Ledger in A Knight’s Tale. Meeting the director Michel Hazanavicius on OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies led to global recognition in the film The Artist. She was nominated for an Oscar and awarded the César for best actress. In 2013, Bérénice Bejo won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for The Past by Asghar Farhadi. Since then, she has worked regularly with international film directors such as Joachim Lafosse, Trần-Anh Hùng, Marco Bellocchio, Ken Scott, Pablo Trapero, Sergio Castellitto, Tom Shoval, Francesca Archibugi and Lone Scherfig. She has also appeared on stage in Tout ce que vous voulez, with Stéphane de Groodt and the dance show Trois sacres with Sylvain Groud. She will be returning to our cinema screens in Nora El Hourch’s Sisterhood, Another End, by Piero Messina, with Gael García Bernal and Under Paris, a film directed by Xavier Gens for Netflix.