- Born
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Noémie Merlant is a French actress, writer and director, she is best known for Le ciel attendra (2016), Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019), Curiosa (2019), and Tár (2022).
She won an César Awards for best supporting actress to her role in L'innocent (2022).
She also starred in Les Olympiades Paris 13e (2021) and had a minor role in Un moment d'égarement (2015).
- IMDb mini biography by: Pedro Borges
- Naturally left-handed, she had to learn to paint with her right hand for her role in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019).
- Was invited to join the actor's branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 2023.
- [ on getting mistaken for, and then developing a fascination with, an online sex worker, a cam girl, played by the rock musician Jehnny Beth, of post-punk band Savages.] I've fallen in love with people on screens before I've ever met them, so I can understand it.
- [on modeling at 16] It made me more confident, it allowed me to travel, but it also left me feeling dispossessed of my own body. I always felt as if it belonged to other people.
- [why she chooses certain roles] Lots of things. I like it if it's engagé, committed, but it doesn't have to be political; it can be committed to a certain aesthetic, a different way of seeing things. As long as it takes me somewhere else. As long as there's the chance to take risks.
- [desires] We've been taught to see ourselves through other people's desire, to respond to their desires before thinking about our own.
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