Biography
Cécile de France (born 17 July 1975) is a Belgian actress. After achieving success in French cinema hits such as L'Art (délicat) de la séduction (2001) and Irène (2002), she gained international attention for her lead roles in High Tension (2003) and Hereafter (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Cécile de France, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Doll
2026
as Patricia
Eastern France, nowadays. Rémi, who has never recovered from a heartbreak, shares his life with a doll called Audrey. But the day his new coworker, P...
Louise
2025

The Residence
2025
as Clarissa
In the near future, Clarissa, a novelist with writer’s block, joins a prestigious, state-of-the-art artist residency where she’s assigned an AI assist...

Clint Eastwood : la légende
2025
as Herself

Colours of Time
2025
as Calixte de La Ferrière
Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. ...

Call of Water
2024
as Sarah
Sarah, in her forties, is on the verge of exhaustion. Her children, ages 9 and 5, take up all her time and her husband is constantly on business trips...

Des baleines, des tortues et des hommes
2024
as Narrator

Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe
2024
as Marthe de Méligny
When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn’t know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and ...

Second Tour
2023
as Mademoiselle Pove
A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is...

Le Voyage délivré
2023
From the front room of his apartment a young boy is taken on an extraordinary journey by a big-hearted bird.

Wild Seas
2022
as Chiara
A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm.

Rewild, la nature reprend ses droits
2022
as Narrator

The Young Lovers
2022
as Jeanne Escande
Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief ...

The French Dispatch
2021
as Mrs. B
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student ri...

Lost Illusions
2021
as Louise de Bargeton
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he ...

Peaceful
2021
as Eugénie
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. T...

Quand baleines et tortues nous montrent le chemin
2020
as Narratrice

Tu seras mère ma fille
2020
as Narrateur

A Bigger World
2019
as Corine
In an attempt to move on from the death of Paul, the love of her life, Korine leaves Paris to undertake a project in Mongolia. But after meeting the s...

Rebels
2019
as Sandra Dréant, former Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of...

Lady J
2018
as Madame de La Pommeraye
When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s pla...

Just to Be Sure
2017
as Anna
Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the ...

Django
2017
as Louise de Klerk
The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.

Wild Tales From The Village
2016
as Narratrice
A year in the life of an extraordinary village hidden away in the French countryside.

Fanny's Journey
2016
as Mme Forman
Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. Aft...

Summertime
2015
as Carole
In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.

In Harmony
2015
as Florence Kernel
After a serious accident on a film shoot, Marc, an equestrian, loses all hope to mount back on. His insurance company instructs Florence to handle his...

Chinese Puzzle
2013
as Isabelle
Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them gro...

Möbius
2013
as Alice
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.

Superstar
2012
as Fleur Arnaud
An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.

A Butterfly Kiss
2011
as Alice
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence ...

The Kid with a Bike
2011
as Samantha
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.

Hereafter
2010
as Marie Lelay
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

Off Limits
2010
as Julie
During a patrol, Julie and Simon, two police constables, injure a wealthy man who pointlessly killed their partner. This wealthy man in question turns...

Sister Smile
2009
as Jeannine Deckers / Sœur Sourire
A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the churc...

Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008
as Jeanne Schneider
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by ...

Le Temps des cerises
2008
as Jane
Le Temps des cerises is a sentimental comedy, full of charm, on the life of two beings whom everything opposes, but which chance brings together. He ...

Animals in Love
2007
as Narrator
Translated literally as "Animals in Love," the French-language documentary Animaux Amoreux depicts various species of the animal kingdom in courting, ...

Hand of the Headless Man
2007
as Eva
Eva, a 25-year-old woman, is an Olympic diver: a champion. Her father, Peter, is her coach. During a competition, Eva climbs up to the 10-meter platfo...

A Secret
2007
as Tania Stirn / Grimbert
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the lay...

Gone for a Dance
2007
as Blanche
After seeing 'Singin' in the Rain', a man decides to give up his peaceful life of happiness to pursue his new dream of tap dancing.

The Necklace
2007
as Mathilde Loisel
Mathilde and her husband, who works in a minister's office, are not rich. Mathilde, however, loves beautiful clothes and her husband loves her too muc...

Snow White: The Sequel
2007
as Blanche Neige / La Belle au Bois Dormant / Cendrillon (voice)
Prince Charming was supposed to live long and happily with Snow White after kissing her back to life. However the jealous 'good' fairy decides that sh...

Bad Faith
2006
as Clara Breitmann
In Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years. Happy, the couple are expecting their first child...

The Colonel
2006
as Le lieutenant Galois
A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is a...

The Singer
2006
as Marion
Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a mela...

Avenue Montaigne
2006
as Jessica
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wea...

Russian Dolls
2005
as Isabelle
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Making of 'La confiance règne'
2005
as Self

Confidence Reigns
2004
as Chrystèle
Christel and Christoph have no education, no morals - they are working as servants in wealthy homes in order to clean out their hosts. Having decided ...

Around the World in 80 Days
2004
as Monique La Roche
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.

Regarde-moi (en face)
2003
as Dune
Antoine lives with his father Gaston. The latter is a voyeur and keeps his son at home through emotional blackmail. Gaston is forced to make a financi...

High Tension
2003
as Marie
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' i...

Kaena: The Prophecy
2003
as Kaena (voice)
Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take ...

I, Cesar
2003
as Samantha
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance...

A+ Pollux
2002
as Pollux
Halvard Sanz believes in the principle according to which we always meet people who really interest us twice. It’s written in the tables of how the wo...

Irène
2002
as Irène
Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with a ...

The Spanish Apartment
2002
as Isabelle
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the ...

Toutes les nuits
2001
as La prostituée aux lunettes
La Première éducation sentimentale (the first version of L'Éducation sentimentale), re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, ...

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
2001
as Laure
The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, ...

Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
2001
as Christine
Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and pla...

Le peuple miniature
N/A
Demain, je tombe amoureux
N/A
Gisèle
N/A
as Michèle Chevalier
Follows the lawyer Gisèle Halimi and her historic defense of Basque individuals accused of crimes committed during the conflict in Basque Country.