Chiara Mastroianni

Chiara -Charlotte Mastroianni ( born May 28, 1972 in Paris) is a French actress.

Private life

Chiara Mastroianni is the daughter of actors Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni. It is occasionally grown up with her father and his wife Flora Carabella in Italy and therefore speaks French and Italian. The actor Christian Vadim is her older half-brother from the relationship of Deneuve with Roger Vadim.

Chiara Mastroianni has a son (* 1996) from a relationship with Pierre Torreton. From 2002 to 2005 she was married to the French singer Benjamin Biolay, with whom she has a daughter (* 2003).

Career

At the age of 21, she was at her mother's side for the first time in front of the film camera in André Téchiné's family drama My favorite season. For her film debut in 1994 was nominated for a César for Best Young Actress, but the award was given Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.

Mastroianni also acted in international productions. So it was, for example, in the U.S. comedy Prêt -à -Porter to see with her father and Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts and many other stars.

In the following years the actress has worked with renowned directors of French cinema as Xavier Beauvois, Raúl Ruiz and Manoel de Oliveira, but she also acted in numerous works of young directors and independent productions.

In 2003, she was the directorial debut It's Easier for a Camel ... her friend Valeria Bruni- Tedeschi to see. The award-winning first novel she played the sister of the main character, the model Bianca, the distinct features of Bruni- Tedeschi's biological sister Carla Bruni wears.

In the 2008 as the best animated film nominated for an Oscar biographical animated film Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Mastroianni says the young author, who tells how she experienced the Gulf War as a young girl and has finally leave as adults Iran forever.

Filmography (selection)

Discography (excerpt)

  • 2004: Home - Chiara Mastroianni & Benjamin Biolay (Virgin Records)
  • 2007: Eye of the Tiger ( soundtrack for the film Persepolis )
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