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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Don't Worry, I'll be Ok
2024
as Emma's mom
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
2024
as Julia
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
2024
as La Neurologue
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
2024
as Lili
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!
2023
as Odile
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
2023
as Marinette's mother
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
2023
as Marga Rodrigue
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
2022
as Sophie
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)
2020
as Louise
Vacations in the French countryside. Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome Maxime, her boyfriend François’ cousin. François ...

An Irrepressible Woman
2020
as Renée, Blum's daughter-in-law
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
2019
as Emma Saugier
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
2019
as Cathy
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
2018
as Marion
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
2017
as Flavie Flament
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
2017
as Madeleine Péricourt
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
2017
as Chief Warrant Officer Bénédicte Meursault
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
2017
as Pauline Duhez
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
2016
as Cyrielle
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
2015
as Angélique
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 »
2015
as Self
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
2015
as Emilie Auclair
After the death of their child, a couple move to a new place. The mother start witnessing strange events.

Not My Type
2014
as Jennifer
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
2014
as Sarah
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
2013
as Sandra
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.

The Crossing
2012
as Sarah Arendt
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
2012
as Murielle
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
2011
as Diane Barraud
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
2010
as Charlotte
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
2010
as Marie
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)
2010
as Sarah Lisbourne
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
2009
as Jeanne
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
2008
as Judith Miro
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
2008
as Marion
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
2008
as Charlotte Corday
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
2007
as The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité")
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
2007
as Cora
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
2007
as Charlotte
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
2007
A pickpocket in a screening of Au hasard Balthazar accidentally connects with an audience member.

Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
2007
as Cécile Thuillier
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
2006
as Valentine
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
2005
as Charlotte
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
2005
as Aurélia
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
2005
as Grace Carson
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
2004
as Doña Clara
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
2004
as Brigitte
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
2004
as Nelly
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
2003
as Laurence Milcaux
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
2002
as Laura
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
2002
as Lili
The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements during WWII.

Yes, But...
2001
as Eglantine Laville
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
2001
as Marianne de Morangias
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
1999
as Rosetta
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...