Editing Virginie Ledoyen

{{Short description|French actress (born 1976)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name          = Virginie Ledoyen
| image         = Virginie Ledoyen Cannes 2015 2.jpg
| caption       = Ledoyen in 2015
| birth_name    = Virginie Fernández
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1976|11|15|df=y}}<!-- The date is variously reported, but is verified as 1978. Please see the talk-page for a YouTube-video where she verifies this herself -->
| birth_place   = [[Paris]], France
| occupation    = Actress
| years_active  = 1986–present
| spouse        = {{marriage|Iain Rogers|2006|2007|end=divorced}}
| partner       = {{ubl|Louis Soubrier (1995–2005)|Arie Elmaleh (2007-2015)}}
| children      = 3
}}

'''Virginie Fernández''' (born 15 November 1976),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fandango.com/people/virginie-ledoyen-384482/biography|work=Fandango|title=Virginie Ledoyen Biography|access-date=20 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720195801/https://www.fandango.com/people/virginie-ledoyen-384482/biography|archive-date=20 July 2022|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/nov/15/artsfeatures1|title=DiCaprio? I wouldn't wish his life on anybody|last=Brooks|first=Xan|date=15 November 2002|work=The Guardian|access-date=21 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910024236/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/nov/15/artsfeatures1|archive-date=10 September 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> known by her stage name '''Virginie Ledoyen''' ({{IPA|fr|viʁʒini lədwajɛ̃|lang}}), is a French actress. She has appeared in French, English and American films.

==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>

==Filmography==
[[File:Virginie Ledoyen Cannes 2012.jpg|thumb|180px|Ledoyen at the [[2012 Cannes Film Festival]].]]
[[File:Virginie Ledoyen (Berlinale 2012) 3.jpg|thumb|180px|Ledoyen at the [[62nd Berlin International Film Festival|2012 Berlinale]].]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1986
| ''[[Exploits of a Young Don Juan]]''
| Berthe
|
|-
| 1988
| ''La Vie en panne''
|Joëlle
|TV mini-series
|-
| 1990
| ''Haute tension''
| Dominique (15-year-old)
| TV series
|-
| 1991
| ''Mima''
| Mima
|
|-
| 1991
| ''[[The Children Thief]]''
| Gabrielle
|
|-
| 1992
| ''[[Mouche (unfinished film)|Mouche]]''
| Mouche
| [[Unfinished creative work#Film|Incomplete]]
|-
| 1993
| ''Les Marmottes''
| Samantha
| Nominated—[[César Award for Most Promising Actress]]
|-
|1994
| ''La Folie douce''
| Charlie Léger
|
|-
|1994
| ''La Règle de l'homme''
|Violette
|Telefilm
|-
|1994
| ''[[Cold Water (film)|Cold Water]]''
|Christine
|Nominated—[[César Award for Most Promising Actress]]
|-
| 1995
| ''[[A Single Girl]]''
| Valérie Sergent
|Nominated—[[César Award for Most Promising Actress]]
|-
| 1995
| ''[[La Cérémonie]]''
| Melinda
|
|-
| 1995
| ''La Vie de Marianne''
| Marianne
| Telefilm
|-
| 1995
| ''Sur la route''
|
| Short film
|-
| 1995
| ''Les Sensuels''
|
| Telefilm
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Mahjong (film)|Mahjong]]''
| Marthe
|
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Ma 6-T va crack-er]]''
| The girl with the pistol
|
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Héroïnes]]''
| Johanna
|
|-
| 1998
| ''[[The Perfect Guy (1998 film)|The Perfect Guy]]''
| Jeanne
| [[Paris Film Festival|Paris Film Festival - Best Actress]]
|-
| 1998
| ''[[A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (film)|A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries]]''
| Billy's Mother
|
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Late August, Early September]]''
| Anne
|
|-
| 1998
| ''In All Innocence''
| Cécile Maudet
|
|-
| 2000
| ''[[The Beach (film)|The Beach]]''
| Françoise
| Nominated—[[Teen Choice Award|Teen Choice Award - Choice Movie: Chemistry]]
|-
| 2001
| ''[[All About Love (2001 film)|All About Love]]''
|Maria 
|
|-
|2002
| ''[[8 Women]]''
|Suzon
|[[52nd Berlin International Film Festival|Berlin Film Festival - Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement]]<br>[[European Film Award for Best Actress]]
|-
|2002
| ''[[Les Misérables (2000 miniseries)|Les Misérables]]''
|[[Cosette]]
|TV mini-series
|-
|2003
| ''Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ?''
|The cleaning lady
|
|-
|2003
| ''[[Bon Voyage (2003 film)|Bon Voyage]]''
|Camille
|
|-
|2004
| ''[[Saint Ange]]''
|Anna Jurin
|
|-
|2006
| ''[[The Valet (2006 film)|The Valet]]''
|Émilie
|
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Holly (2006 film)|Holly]]''
|Marie
|
|-
| 2006
| ''[[The Backwoods]]''
|Lucy
|
|-
| 2006
| ''La Forteresse assiégée''
|[[Eugénie de Montijo|L'impératrice Eugénie]]
|Telefilm
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Shall We Kiss?]]''
|Judith
|
|-
| 2008
| ''London mon amour''
|Audrey Morraine
|
|-
| 2008
| ''L'Emmerdeur''
|Louise
|
|-
| 2009
| ''[[The Army of Crime]]''
|[[Mélinée Manouchian]]
|
|-
| 2009
| ''Myster Mocky présente''
|
|TV series
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Tout ce qui brille]]''
|Agathe
|
|-
| 2011
| ''The Last Beast''
|Clémence
|
|-
| 2011
| ''[[XIII: The Series]]''
|Irina
|TV series
|-
| 2011
| ''The Shape of Art to Come''
|
|Short film
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Farewell, My Queen]]''
|[[Yolande de Polastron|Gabrielle de Polignac]]
|
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Another Life (2013 film)|Another Life]]''
|Dolorès
|
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Scènes de ménages]]''
|
|TV series
|-
| 2013
| ''À votre bon cœur, mesdames''
|Lisa
|
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Ablations]]''
|Léa Cartalas
|
|-
| 2014
| ''Le Monde de Fred''
|Herself
|
|-
|2014
|''Enragés''
|La femme
|
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Rabid Dogs (2015 film)|Rabid Dogs]]''
|The Woman
|
|-
| 2016
| ''Accro''
|
|
|-
|2018
|''[[MILF (2018 film)|MILF]]''
|Cécile
|
|-
|2018
|''[[Remi, Nobody's Boy]]''
|
|
|-
|2019
|''Notre Dame''
|Coconut
|
|-
|2019
|''A Magical Journey''
|Mother
|
|-
|2020
|''Capitain Marleau''
|Anne Duplesis
|TV series
|-
|2020
|''Ils étaient dix''
|Barbara
|TV series
|-
|2021
|''Nona et ses filles''
|Emmanuelle
|TV series
|-
|2022
|''L'île aux 30 cercueils''
|Christine Vorksy
|TV series
|-
|2022
|''The King's Favorite''
|Anne of Pisseuleu
|TV series
|-
| rowspan="2" |2023
|''[[Homecoming (2023 film)|Homecoming]]''
|Sylvia
|
|-
|''[[Just the Two of Us (2023 film)|Just the Two of Us]]''
|
|-
|2024
|''Le mangeur d'âmes''
|Commandant Elisabeth GUARDIANO
|
|-
|2025
|''[[The Au Pair (TV series)|The Au Pair]]''
|Marie
|TV series
|}

==Other awards==
* 1998: [[Prix Suzanne Bianchetti]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
* {{IMDb name|0001461|Virginie Ledoyen}}
* {{Fashionmodel}}

{{European Film Award for Best Actress}}
{{Prix Suzanne Bianchetti}}

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[[Category:People from Aubervilliers]]
[[Category:Actresses from Île-de-France]]
[[Category:French child actresses]]
[[Category:20th-century French actresses]]
[[Category:21st-century French actresses]]
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