Émilie Dequenne

Émilie Dequenne

1981-08-29 Belœil, Belgique 52 Credits

Biography

Émilie Dequenne (29 August 1981 – 16 March 2025) was a Belgian actress. She first gained attention for playing the title character in the film Rosetta (1999), which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She then went on to star in many films such as Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), The Light (2004), The Girl on the Train (2009), Our Children (2012), Not My Type (2014) and This Is Our Land (2017). Dequenne won the Best Actress award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival for her d...

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Don't Worry, I'll be Ok

Don't Worry, I'll be Ok

2024

as Emma's mom

7.0
Acting

Confident and popular sixteen-year-old Emma is in a coma. Why? What happened to her? To find out, she becomes an invisible “ghost” for a few days. She...

Survive

Survive

2024

as Julia

5.8
Acting

A couple celebrates their son’s birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits and it brings up hungry creatures from the dep...

Retrotherapy

Retrotherapy

2024

as La Neurologue

6.2
Acting

Yvonne loses her mind and confuses her teenage granddaughter, Manon, with her deceased daughter. Manon plays the role of the mother she never knew, re...

Double foyer

Double foyer

2024

as Lili

4.2
Acting

Lili and Simon are in love. They don't live together but are loving it. And then, here comes Abel, the fruit of their love. And then, the mishaps of l...

Mr. Blake At Your Service!

Mr. Blake At Your Service!

2023

as Odile

6.4
Acting

Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go back to France, in the house he met her. This journe...

Marinette

Marinette

2023

as Marinette's mother

6.6
Acting

Based on the biography Ne jamais rien lâcher, the script traces the career of Marinette Pichon over three decades. Born in 1975, she was the pioneer o...

The Daughter of Albino Rodrigue

The Daughter of Albino Rodrigue

2023

as Marga Rodrigue

6.2
Acting

Rosemay, 16, lives in a foster home and only joins her biological family for the vacations. One day, her father is not there to welcome her as planned...

Close

Close

2022

as Sophie

7.8
Acting

Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.

Love Affair(s)

Love Affair(s)

2020

as Louise

6.3
Acting

Vacations in the French countryside. Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome Maxime, her boyfriend François’ cousin. François ...

An Irrepressible Woman

An Irrepressible Woman

2020

as Renée, Blum's daughter-in-law

5.3
Acting

1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is rea...

La Maladroite

La Maladroite

2019

as Emma Saugier

7.9
Acting

Stella is 6 but she is going to school for the first time. Happy, exuberant (maybe too much) she is a lovely child, but is often absent. Her parents s...

My Mum, Cancer and Me

My Mum, Cancer and Me

2019

as Cathy

5.5
Acting

14-year-old Tania starts to become aware that the boys at school are interested in her at the same time as she learns that her mother has breast cance...

Une vie après

Une vie après

2018

as Marion

5.4
Acting

Marion does not love her husband anymore. She decides to leave him to live fully, not to be locked in the reassuring comfort of a family life. Dominiq...

The Consolation

The Consolation

2017

as Flavie Flament

6.1
Acting

Victim of vertigo and unexplained discomfort, Flavie, a television host, resolves to consult a psychiatrist. The latter suggests a test of the past th...

See You Up There

See You Up There

2017

as Madeleine Péricourt

7.8
Acting

In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageou...

The Brigade

The Brigade

2017

as Chief Warrant Officer Bénédicte Meursault

6.7
Acting

Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, ...

This Is Our Land

This Is Our Land

2017

as Pauline Duhez

5.8
Acting

Pauline, a devoted and generous home help nurse, raises her two children alone, while also looking after her father, a former steelworker. Taking adva...

Mum Is Wrong

Mum Is Wrong

2016

as Cyrielle

6.0
Acting

Do we really know our parents? Fourteen-year-old Anouk suddenly discovers another side to her mother during an observation workshop that she carries o...

Par accident

Par accident

2015

as Angélique

5.4
Acting

One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her...

Il était une fois... « Rosetta »

Il était une fois... « Rosetta »

2015

as Self

Acting

Thirty-eighth documentary in the "Un film et son époque" series. It retraces the genesis, shooting and unexpected success of "Rosetta", a film by Belg...

Souviens-toi

Souviens-toi

2015

as Emilie Auclair

5.1
Acting

After the death of their child, a couple move to a new place. The mother start witnessing strange events.

Not My Type

Not My Type

2014

as Jennifer

6.2
Acting

Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and ...

Divin enfant

Divin enfant

2014

as Sarah

3.9
Acting

A large house surrounded by vineyards. A Christmas Eve in a very blended family turns into an absolute nightmare when the mistress of the house tells ...

Möbius

Möbius

2013

as Sandra

5.7
Acting

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

The Crossing

The Crossing

2012

as Sarah Arendt

6.5
Acting

Lola Arendt, 8, vanishes while on vacation on a wild Scottish island. Shattered by her disappearance, her parents, Sarah and Martin, separate. Two yea...

Our Children

Our Children

2012

as Murielle

6.7
Acting

Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and ...

Mystery at Moulin Rouge

Mystery at Moulin Rouge

2011

as Diane Barraud

5.7
Acting

In 1892 Diane arrives in Paris to search for her missing sister. To learn the fate of her sister she auditions for the quadrille at Moulin rouge.

The Pack

The Pack

2010

as Charlotte

4.6
Acting

In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back fro...

I Forgot to Tell You

I Forgot to Tell You

2010

as Marie

5.5
Acting

Marie is a young woman with a troubled past. Her passion is painting, but she never had any formal training. Living in the South of France, she takes ...

Obsession(s)

Obsession(s)

2010

as Sarah Lisbourne

5.4
Acting

A grizzly cat-and-mouse game between imprisoned serial killer, Marc Douelec, and Sarah Lisbourn, a police officer who is preoccupied with the murder i...

The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train

2009

as Jeanne

5.8
Acting

Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover y...

Rien dans les poches

Rien dans les poches

2008

as Judith Miro

5.5
Acting

25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17, then short star of the song, and finally mother of a te...

Miroir, mon beau miroir

Miroir, mon beau miroir

2008

as Marion

Acting

Marie-Line, 60 years old, continuously strives to fend off the effects of aging and lives with the obsession of recovering the missing panel of a pain...

Charlotte Corday

Charlotte Corday

2008

as Charlotte Corday

6.0
Acting

Set in July 1793 during the outbreak of the French Revolution and the unleashing of the Reign of Terror, a young girl from Caen named Charlotte Corday...

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

as The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité")

6.5
Acting

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...

La Vie d'artiste

La Vie d'artiste

2007

as Cora

4.8
Acting

A novelist, an actress, and a struggling young singer all attempt to make their mark in modern day Paris in director Marc Fitoussi's cynical entertain...

Fissures

Fissures

2007

as Charlotte

5.4
Acting

Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progr...

Darkness

Darkness

2007

Acting

A pickpocket in a screening of Au hasard Balthazar accidentally connects with an audience member.

Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross

Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross

2007

as Cécile Thuillier

5.0
Acting

Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the colonists...

The Great Meaulnes

The Great Meaulnes

2006

as Valentine

5.4
Acting

A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural se...

A Song of Innocence

A Song of Innocence

2005

as Charlotte

4.0
Acting

Antoine Santana - Issues of class, gender roles and parenting bubble to the surface in this 19th-century tale about a shepherd girl (Isild Le Besco) w...

Before You Leave

Before You Leave

2005

as Aurélia

6.5
Acting

A group of friends in their thirties meet for a weekend in a mountain chalet for what will be a sort of review of an era in their lives and their rela...

The United States of Albert

The United States of Albert

2005

as Grace Carson

3.5
Acting

Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

2004

as Doña Clara

5.1
Acting

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of seve...

The Light

The Light

2004

as Brigitte

6.9
Acting

Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during whic...

L'Américain

L'Américain

2004

as Nelly

2.6
Acting

Francis Farge, alias "The American" could have remained a man like the others but a strange obsession animates him: he feels American body and soul.

The Very Merry Widows

The Very Merry Widows

2003

as Laurence Milcaux

5.1
Acting

Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with her, in order to get their life insurance's money. ...

The Housekeeper

The Housekeeper

2002

as Laura

5.7
Acting

After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours...

Jean Moulin

Jean Moulin

2002

as Lili

Acting

The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements during WWII.

Yes, But...

Yes, But...

2001

as Eglantine Laville

6.4
Acting

At age 17, Eglantine is troubled by a number of things. Her argumentative parents comprise an absentee and philandering father and an overprotective, ...

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Brotherhood of the Wolf

2001

as Marianne de Morangias

6.7
Acting

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the ...

Rosetta

Rosetta

1999

as Rosetta

7.2
Acting

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is de...