Mélanie Laurent

Best known for her role in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Mélanie Laurent also followed in the footsteps of fellow French actresses Charlotte Gainsbourg, Catherine Deneuve, and Brigitte Bardot by turning her hand to a music career. Born in the ninth arrondissement of Paris in 1983 to a ballerina mother and voice-over artist father, Laurent was discovered by Gérard Depardieu on the set of Asterix and Obelix, and Depardieu offered her a part in his co-directed 1999 film, The Bridge. After starring in Rice Rhapsody, The Beat My Heart Skipped, and Days of Glory, she won...