Maïwenn

Also known as Maïwenn Le Besco, Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco

Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco (; born 17 April 1976), known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.

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Acting · Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco, known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker. Maïwenn starred in several films as a child, then teen, actress—notably as "Elle, as a child" (the child version of the lead role played by Isabelle Adjani) in the 1983 hit film L'été meurtrier (One Deadly Summer). Following her marriage to director Luc Besson and the birth of their daughter in…

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Breaking Point — Delphine2024
Jeanne du Barry — Jeanne Du Barry2023
Neneh Superstar — Marianne Bellage2023
Our Ties — Emma2022
Sisters — Norah2021
Tralala — Barbara2021
The Man in the Hat — Chloe2020
DNA — Neige2020

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Early life
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Personal life
Filmography
As filmmaker
As actress
Television
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Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco (; born 17 April 1976), known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.

== Early life == Maïwenn Le Besco was born on 17 April 1976 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, the daughter of artist Catherine Belkhodja and linguist Patrick Le Besco. After her parents' divorce, she reported "she was abused by both her parents after their separation, having been beaten physically and verbally by her father around the age of seven or eight, and then by her mother during her adolescence"; this experience informed her films Pardonnez-moi (2006) and Polisse (2011). She stated that her mother "is a poison for me. She poisoned my life."