1. Ludivine Sagnier was born on 3 July 1979 and is a French actress, known to international audiences for the films Swimming Pool and Peter Pan, and the Netflix series Lupin.
15 Facts About Ludivine Sagnier
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Ludivine Sagnier has appeared in the English-language series The Young Pope and The Serpent Queen.
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Ludivine Sagnier was born on 3 July 1979 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the departement of Yvelines, France, and grew up in Sevres.
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Ludivine Sagnier's mother is a retired secretary and her father is a professor of English at the University of Paris.
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Ludivine Sagnier studied piano at a young age but disliked performing music, and instead opted to take acting classes with her parents' permission.
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Ludivine Sagnier made her film debut at the age of nine in Les Maris, les Femmes, les Amants, directed by Pascal Thomas, and had other minor roles in the early 1990s, including an appearance in Cyrano de Bergerac with Gerard Depardieu.
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Ludivine Sagnier's career began in earnest in adulthood, as she gained commercial and critical success for her performances in three films directed by Francois Ozon: Water Drops on Burning Rocks, 8 Women, and Swimming Pool.
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Ludivine Sagnier subsequently appeared in French films including Love Songs, A Secret, which garnered her another Cesar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and Mesrine.
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Since 2021 Ludivine Sagnier has starred in the Netflix-produced crime thriller series Lupin as Claire Laurent, the estranged wife of protagonist Assane Diop and the mother to their son Raoul, whom she is raising alone.
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Ludivine Sagnier said that she was drawn to the role of Diane because she was interested in playing an antagonist, something she had seldom done in her career prior to then.
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Ludivine Sagnier made an appearance as Theresa Tallien in Ridley Scott's biopic Napoleon, though her performance was cut from the theatrical version of the film, and played composer Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy in the Apple TV+ miniseries Franklin, about Benjamin Franklin's expedition to France during the time of the American Revolutionary War.
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In 2024, Ludivine Sagnier featured in the film adaptation of Nicolas Mathieu's novel And Their Children After Them, and reunited with Francois Ozon after a two-decade hiatus in their creative relationship for When Fall Is Coming.
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Ludivine Sagnier gave birth to a daughter in 2005, with her then boyfriend, actor Nicolas Duvauchelle.
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Ludivine Sagnier is in a relationship with her partner, director Kim Chapiron, with whom she has two daughters.
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Since 2020, Ludivine Sagnier has developed and taught an acting course at the Ecole Kourtrajme.