1. Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni was born on 28 May 1972 and is a French actress and singer.
17 Facts About Chiara Mastroianni
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Chiara Mastroianni is the daughter of actors Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.
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Chiara Mastroianni's parents were both married to other people at the time of their affair and stayed together for four years, separating in 1975, when Chiara was two years old.
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Chiara Mastroianni has two half-siblings, a brother, Christian Vadim, from her mother's relationship with director Roger Vadim, and a sister, Barbara Chiara Mastroianni, from her father's marriage to actress Flora Carabella.
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Carabella is rumoured to have offered to adopt Chiara Mastroianni and raise her with her older sister as both her parents worked often and travelled from home, an offer Deneuve rejected.
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Chiara Mastroianni earned a Cesar Award nomination for her first feature film appearance in Andre Techine's My Favorite Season, starring her mother in the lead role.
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Chiara Mastroianni worked with Poupaud again in Three Lives and Only One Death, playing the daughter of her real-life father, and in Time Regained, starring her mother.
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Chiara Mastroianni returned to filmmaking to star in Manoel de Oliveira's The Letter, based on Madame de La Fayette's novel La Princesse de Cleves.
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In July 2016, Chiara Mastroianni was named a member of the main competition jury for the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.
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In 2024, Chiara Mastroianni was appointed Jury member at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival for its section 'International competition'.
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Chiara Mastroianni is a friend and frequent collaborator of French filmmaker Christophe Honore.
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Chiara Mastroianni has appeared in roughly half of his films in either major roles or cameos, beginning with the 2007 film Love Songs.
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Chiara Mastroianni first appeared in one of Deneuve's films in 1979 in an uncredited role in Us Two.
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Chiara Mastroianni collaborated with her then-husband, musician Benjamin Biolay, on the album Home, released in 2004.
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Chiara Mastroianni dated actor Melvil Poupaud for four years from the age of 16 to 20.
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Chiara Mastroianni encouraged her to pursue acting as a career and they remained friends for decades, with Poupaud saying he still loved her in 2018.
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In 1996, Chiara Mastroianni gave birth to a son, whose father is sculptor Pierre Thoretton.