Biography
Mélanie Laurent (French pronunciation: [melani loʁɑ̃]; born 21 February 1983) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is an accomplished actress in the French film industry and the recipient of two César Awards and a Lumières Award. Internationally, Laurent is best known for her roles in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Now You See Me (2013), Operation Finale (2018) and 6 Underground (2019). Laurent began acting at age sixteen, cast by Gérard Depardieu in a small role in the romantic drama The Brid...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Wonderers
2025
as Madeleine Roussier
Set against the backdrop of a summer on the French riviera, the Roussier family and its fragile equilibrium is shaped by the uncertain diagnosis of 13...

The Flood
2024
as Marie-Antoinette
1792. Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their children have been arrested and imprisoned in the Tour du Temple, a sinister chateau in Paris, a...

Voir un ami
2024
Director

Freedom
2024
Inspired by the true events of one of France's most notorious non-violent robbers, Bruno Sulak, in the 1980s. He led multiple heists, then captured pu...

Freedom
2024
Director, Writer
Inspired by the true events of one of France's most notorious non-violent robbers, Bruno Sulak, in the 1980s. He led multiple heists, then captured pu...

Wingwomen
2023
as Carole
Tired of life on the run, a pro thief decides to retire — but not before one easy last job with her partner in crime and a feisty new getaway driver.

Wingwomen
2023
Director, Screenplay
Tired of life on the run, a pro thief decides to retire — but not before one easy last job with her partner in crime and a feisty new getaway driver.

Murder Mystery 2
2023
as Claudette
After starting their own detective agency, Nick and Audrey Spitz land a career-making case when their billionaire pal is kidnapped from his wedding.

Ride Above
2022
as Marie
Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threa...

No Limit
2022
Producer
Roxana Aubrey decides to drop her studies and escape her life in Paris for a free diving course in the south of France. She is quickly pulled into a l...

The Mad Women's Ball
2021
as Geneviève Gleizes
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles'...

The Mad Women's Ball
2021
Screenplay, Director
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles'...

Oxygen
2021
as Elizabeth 'Liz' Hansen
A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.

6 Underground
2019
as Two
After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.

QT8: The First Eight
2019
as self (archive footage)
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda...
Inside The Operation
2018
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at Operation Finale.

Galveston
2018
Director
After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galves...

Après Demain
2018
as Self
Two years after the phenomenal success of the documentary Demain, Cyril Dion looks back at the projects the film inspired. He is accompanied by Laure ...

Operation Finale
2018
as Hanna Elian
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argent...

Mia and the White Lion
2018
as Alice Owen
A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

L'Autostoppeuse
2018
Émilie leaves Paris behind the wheel of a car she can't drive. She hitchhikes the wrong way round and tries to find drivers who will take her to see t...

Return of the Hero
2018
as Elisabeth Beaugrand
France, 1809. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to chee...

Diving
2017
Director, Screenplay
A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.

My Son
2017
as Marie Blanchard
The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from hi...

Paris Prestige
2017
as Margot
Nasser, a 30-something Parisian with a troubled past, returns to Paris after some jail time. Margot, his probation officer, urges him to work at LE PR...

Eternity
2016
as Mathilde
Valentine marries at the end of the 19th century, and love passes through her family from generation to generation.

Tomorrow
2015
as Self
Climate is changing. Instead of showing all the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.

Tomorrow
2015
Director
Climate is changing. Instead of showing all the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.

By the Sea
2015
as Lea
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be...

Boomerang
2015
as Agathe Rey
When Antoine returns to the island of Noirmoutier, secrets kept in the past resurfaces and threatens to change his family’s present.

Breathe
2014
Director, Screenplay
Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new fr...

Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy
2014
as Self
The cast and crew of 'Enemy' guide the audience through the making of the film and the possible meanings behind its enigmatic imagery.

Enemy
2014
as Mary
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

Aloft
2014
as Jannia Ressmore
As we follow a mother and her son, we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and...

Now You See Me
2013
as Alma Dray
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with...

Night Train to Lisbon
2013
as Young Estefania
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which...

The Adopted
2011
as Lisa
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, thei...

The Adopted
2011
Director, Screenplay
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, thei...

Beginners
2011
as Anna Wallace
Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories ...

The Day I Saw Your Heart
2011
as Justine Dhrey
Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail...

Requiem for a Killer
2011
as Lucrèce
Lucretia is a killer for hire. Specialised in poisoning and passionate about opera, she'll have to fulfill a difficult contract in the heart of the Sw...

The Round Up
2010
as Annette Monod
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

The Concert
2009
as Anne-Marie Jacquet
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhne...

Inglourious Basterds
2009
as Shosanna
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throug...

Every Jack Has a Jill
2009
as Chloe
Jack is encouraged to take the romantic Paris vacation he won, despite just being dumped by his girlfriend. His trip soon devolves into chaos and adve...

The End of the Line
2009
as Narrator for France (voice)
Examines the devastating effect that overfishing has had on the world's fish populations and argues that drastic action must be taken to reverse these...

The Business Trip
2008
as Réceptioniste de Hôtel
A business man in his 30s, with an expense account, checks into a hotel, exchanging smiles and pleasantries with the desk clerk, a woman of beauty and...

Souvenir
2008
as Party guest
After spending the night together with her idol, Sinclair, Léa hopes to see him again soon. She still finds it difficult to quite grasp what has happe...

Paris
2008
as Laetitia
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has...

The Killer
2008
as Stella
Leo Zimmermann, a business man from Paris dotes on his daughter. He proposes a strange offer to his killer when he is in town to execute Zimmermann.

Less and Less
2008
Writer, Director
Lisa, a young woman, tries to remember moments of her life with the help of her doctor. Voices resonate, images intermingle... moments of happiness su...

Hidden Love
2007
as Sophie
A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.

Room of Death
2007
as Lucie Hennebelle
While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the m...

Days of Glory
2006
as Margueritte village Vosges
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, alon...

Don't Worry, I'm Fine
2006
as Élise 'Lili' Tellier
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.

Dikkenek
2006
as Natacha
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fa...
Les Visages d'Alice
2005
as Alice
Directed by David Ungaro

The Beat That My Heart Skipped
2005
as Minskov's Girlfriend
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career thre...

The Last Day
2004
as Louise
At Christmas time, 19-year-old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While S...

Rice Rhapsody
2004
as Sabine
With her elder two sons being gay, a traditionally-minded mother fears her youngest son could be too, thereby losing her last chance to have any grand...

Une vie à t'attendre
2004
as la jeune fille à l'usine
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair w...

Snowboarder
2003
as Célia
Gaspard, un jeune snowboarder talentueux mais peu ambitieux, vit et travaille à l'Alpe d'Huez, dans le magasin de surf de Beshop, un ancien entraîneur...

Jean Moulin, une affaire française
2003
as Alice Arguel (jeune)
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years o...
La faucheuse
2003
as Isabelle
Directed by Vincenzo Marano, Patrick Timsit

Le Grand Mezze
2002

Summer Things
2002
as Carole
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it ...

This Is My Body
2001
as Clara
Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had prev...

The Bridge
1999
as Lisbeth
Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for Claire Dab...
Rosa Bonheur
N/A
as Rosa Bonheur
Based on the life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th century France.
Mata
N/A
as India
Wounded while on a clandestine operation in Niger, French secret agent Mata loses track of her colleague Antoine, captured on the spot. Upon her retur...
The Mother
N/A
Director
An immigrant mother and businesswoman tries to make a new life for her family in America. But when her two teenage sons stumble into trouble with a Bo...

The Nightingale
N/A
Director
The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.