Mélanie Thierry is a French actress born in 1981 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. After starting out as a child and teenage model, she moved into acting and earned wide recognition for the title role in The Princess of Montpensier (2010), Bertrand Taverniers period drama. She went on to work internationally, appearing in Terry Gilliams The Zero Theorem (2013) and Spike Lees Da 5 Bloods (2020). Earlier in her career she also starred in the science-fiction film Babylon A.D. (2008). Thierry has built a career balancing French auteur cinema with occasional English-language productions.
Mélanie Thierry
Actress
45 years (Jul 17, 1981)Saint-Germain-en-Laye, FranceSaint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France
Mélanie Thierry is a French actress born in 1981 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. After starting out as a child and teenage model, she moved into acting and earned wide recognition for the title role in The Princess of Montpensier (2010), Bertrand Taverniers period drama. She went on to work internationally, appearing in Terry Gilliams The Zero Theorem (2013) and Spike Lees Da 5 Bloods (2020). Earlier in her career she also starred in the science-fiction film Babylon A.D. (2008). Thierry has built a career balancing French auteur cinema with occasional English-language productions.
1981-07-17 · Saint-Germain-en-Laye, FranceSaint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France
Mélanie Thierry (born 17 July 1981) is a French actress. She began her career as a sought-after child and teen model in France, then moved into acting. She began with a series of roles in French productions, choosing her parts carefully as most of them were critically acclaimed. Not long thereafter, the actress scored an international crossover hit at age 18 as the love interest of ship-bound Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon 1900 in The Legend of 1900. She also appeared opposite Rufus Sewell in two episodes of the popular BBC costume drama Charles II: The Power and The Passion, playing the king's French mistress Louise de Kérouaille.
Thierry made her Hollywood debut in the 2008 film Babylon A.D., as Aurora.Mélanie Thierry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.