Editing Virginie Ledoyen (section)

==Life and career==
Ledoyen was born in [[Paris]] and raised in [[Aubervilliers]], the daughter of Olga, a restaurateur, and Bernard Fernández, a merchant who sold cleaning products and knives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/and-god-created-virginie-7223716.html?amp|title=And God Created Virginie|author=Lydia Slater|date=10 April 2012|website=[[ES Magazine]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720193801/https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/and-god-created-virginie-7223716.html?amp |archive-date=20 July 2022|url-status=live|url-access=registration}}</ref> Her paternal grandfather was Spanish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/es-magazine-fashion/article-23684613-details/Virginie+Ledoyen:+ten+years+after+starring+in+The+Beach/article.do|title=Virginie Ledoyen: ten years after starring in The Beach|author=Janine di Giovanni|date=5 May 2009|website=[[ES Magazine]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509074453/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/es-magazine-fashion/article-23684613-details/Virginie+Ledoyen:+ten+years+after+starring+in+The+Beach/article.do|archive-date=9 May 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was a print model from the age of two and later took on the stage name "Ledoyen" after the [[maiden name]] of her maternal grandmother, who was a [[stage actor|stage actress]]. 

Ledoyen's film breakthrough came with ''[[A Single Girl]]'' (1995) (stylized ''la fille seule''), for which she was nominated for a [[César Award for Most Promising Actress]]. She also received two César Award nominations for ''Les marmottes'' (1993) and ''[[Cold Water (film)|L'eau froide]]'' (1994). Outside France, her best-known role is in ''[[The Beach (film)|The Beach]]'' (2000). In the fall of 2000, she signed a contract as a spokesmodel with the cosmetics company [[L'Oréal]]. She was featured alongside two [[model (person)|models]], [[Laetitia Casta]] and [[Noémie Lenoir]].
She portrayed the character Cosette in the 2000 French [[television]] [[miniseries]] of ''[[Les Misérables (2000 TV miniseries)|Les Misérables]]''.

On 29 September 2001, Ledoyen gave birth to her first child, a girl named Lila, with production designer Louis Soubrier, whom she met on the set of ''La fille seule'' in 1995. She was in a short-lived marriage with Iain Rogers, a film director, from 2006 to 2007. From 2007 to 2015,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.purepeople.com/article/virginie-ledoyen-et-arie-elmaleh-separes-fin-du-couple-apres-huit-ans-d-amour_a157922/1 |title=Virginie Ledoyen et Arié Elmaleh séparés : Fin du couple après huit ans d'amour|first=Samya|last=Yakoubaly|date=10 April 2015|work=[[PurePeople]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107160149/https://www.purepeople.com/article/virginie-ledoyen-et-arie-elmaleh-separes-fin-du-couple-apres-huit-ans-d-amour_a157922/1|archive-date=7 January 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> she was in a relationship with actor [[:fr:Arié Elmaleh|Arie Elmaleh]], whose brother was her co-star in ''[[The Valet (2006 film)|The Valet]]''. Ledoyen and Elmaleh have a son, Isaac, born in July 2010, and a daughter, Amalia, born in April 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lci.tf1.fr/people/virginie-ledoyen-et-arie-elmaleh-revelent-le-prenom-de-leur-fille-8412791.html|title=Virginie Ledoyen et Arié Elmaleh révèlent le prénom de leur fille|work=TF1|access-date=11 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222103835/http://lci.tf1.fr/people/virginie-ledoyen-et-arie-elmaleh-revelent-le-prenom-de-leur-fille-8412791.html|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.premiere.fr/Star/Virginie-Ledoyen-97183|title=La biographie de Virginie Ledoyen|work=Première|date=15 November 1976 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729214714/https://www.premiere.fr/Star/Virginie-Ledoyen|archive-date=29 July 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2013 Ledoyen was named as a member of the jury at the [[70th Venice International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/70th-festival/70/juries-awards.html|title=Juries and Awards of the 70th Venice Film Festival|work=labiennale|access-date=28 July 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908031428/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/70th-festival/70/juries-awards.html|archive-date=8 September 2013}}</ref>