Virginie Ledoyen

Virginie Ledoyen

Born: November 15, 1976
in Paris, France
Virginie Ledoyen was born Virginie Fernandez on 15 November 1976 in Aubervilliers, near Paris. At the age of 2, she was already shooting advertisements for television. At 9, she started going to the École des Enfants du Spectacle, and made her film debut at 10 in Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (1986). She was then nominated for the César (the French equivalent of an Oscar) for most promising actress in 1993, 1994 and 1995.

Her international breakthrough was in 1999, when she became ambassador for the cosmetics L'Oréal; this led to her casting in The Beach (2000), with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Movies for Virginie Ledoyen...

The Soul Eater
Title: The Soul Eater
Character: Élisabeth Guardiano
Released: April 24, 2024
Type: Movie
When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears… Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are forced to join forces to uncover the truth.
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Homecoming
Title: Homecoming
Character: Sylvia
Released: July 12, 2023
Type: Movie
Kheìdidja, in her forties, works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her the opportunity to take care of their children for a summer in Corsica. It's an opportunity for her to return with her daughters, Jessica and Farah, to the island they left fifteen years earlier in tragic circumstances.
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Just the Two of Us
Title: Just the Two of Us
Character: Candice
Released: May 24, 2023
Type: Movie
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
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Le monde et sa propriété
Title: Le monde et sa propriété
Character: voix-off
Released: December 6, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: The King’s Favorite
Character: Anne de Pisselieu
Released: November 7, 2022
Type: TV
It follows Diane de Poitiers, an emeritus huntress whose unalterable beauty fuels rumors and legends during her lifetime - and even in her death.
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Title: L'Île aux 30 cercueils
Character: Christine Vorski
Released: March 21, 2022
Type: TV
Christine lost her son at birth 15 years ago. Or so she believes, until she receives a video suggesting he might not be dead. That sends her hurrying back to the island of her childhood in Brittany to discover the truth in an investigation confronting multiple mysteries.
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Title: Nona and Her Daughters
Character: Emmanuelle
Released: December 2, 2021
Type: TV
Actor-turned-director Valérie Donzelli brings us Nona and Her Daughters, a delightful 30-minute dramedy series on the theme of motherhood. Nona, brought to life by the enchanting Miou-Miou (Going Places, Entre Nous) is a 70-year-old feminist. She’s madly in love with André and finally free of taking care of her daughters — 40-year-old triplets played by Virginie Ledoyen, Clotilde Hesme and Valérie Donzelli, herself. She adores her family, life is beautiful and she’s living it to the fullest… Until the day she discovers that she’s pregnant!
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Nose
Title: Nose
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2021
Type: Movie
For the first time in a documentary feature, the prestigious House of Dior opened its doors to show the wonders of perfume creation. Travelers at heart, Arthur de Kersauson and Clément Beauvais followed François Demachy for two years and over 14 countries, from Grasse to the other side of the world, in his search for inspiration and the most precious raw materials.
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Notre Dame
Title: Notre Dame
Character: Coco
Released: December 18, 2019
Type: Movie
Maud is an architect and a mother. Due to a misunderstanding, she wins the competition to refurbish the parvis of Notre-Dame. Torn between these responsibilities and love issues, she will go through an emotional storm.
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A Magical Journey
Title: A Magical Journey
Character: Mother
Released: August 22, 2019
Type: Movie
11-year-old Polina, who knows nothing about her past and parents, lives with her spiteful aunt and wicked cousin. They secretly plan to get rid of the girl at the day of her birthday, all to get their hands on her mysterious inheritance. Chased by the villains, Polina manages to escape on a magical quest to discover the secret about her family. But she only has until midnight to achieve this goal.
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Remi, Nobody's Boy
Title: Remi, Nobody's Boy
Character: Madame Harper
Released: December 12, 2018
Type: Movie
At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its hard sides - he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog capi and of the small monkey Joli-Coeur, his long trip through France, made for meetings, friendships and mutual assistance, leads him to the secret of its origins.
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MILF
Title: MILF
Character: Cécile
Released: May 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Three childhood friends - Elise, Sonia and Cecile - leave for a summer in the South of France to help clear Cecile’s holiday house before it is put up for sale. There, they soon become the prime targets of three horny young men, for whom these single forty-year-old women are much more attractive than girls their age.
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Mélancolie ouvrière
Title: Mélancolie ouvrière
Character: Lucie Baud
Released: February 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true events, describes the ambitious fight of a silk moth. She stood up for the rights of the female working class to end maltreatment and oppression once and for all. For the revolution in women's rights, she even put her family back and fought to the end for their beliefs.
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Title: Just One Look
Character: Eva Beaufils
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: TV
What if your whole life was just a lie? If the man you married fifteen years ago wasn't who you thought he was? For Eva Beaufils, it took just one look at an old photo to turn her whole world upside down. Suddenly, her husband Bastien disappears. Eva has only one thing left in mind: find him at all costs. Even if it reawakens old wounds and puts their children at risk, Eva knows that this is the only search that can give her the answer... Can love overcome distrust?
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Strange Birds
Title: Strange Birds
Character: Félicia
Released: May 31, 2017
Type: Movie
Mavie is 27 years old and has just moved to the French capital from the provinces. She dreams of a future as a writer but is plagued by doubt and uncertainty. 76-year-old misanthrope Georges runs a bookshop in Paris – or has he merely been forced to take refuge there to escape his past? These are two peculiar creatures indeed. Georges is cynical and no longer expects much from life, while Mavie is still brimming with expectation. Yet something magical happens between them, until Georges' dark secret suddenly catches up with him – and Mavie is caught up in something very different...
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Witnesses
Title: Witnesses
Released: September 1, 2016
Type: Movie
During the Syrian civil war, a French war photographer takes a picture she shoudn't have taken.
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Rabid Dogs
Title: Rabid Dogs
Character: The Woman
Released: September 30, 2015
Type: Movie
After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
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Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Anne Duplessis
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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Le monde de Fred
Title: Le monde de Fred
Released: July 2, 2014
Type: Movie
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Ablations
Title: Ablations
Character: Léa
Released: April 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He wakes up in the middle of a field without any memory at all of how he got there. Even stranger is the ugly scar on his back. But what really drives him out of his mind is that the stitches from the operation are still fresh. Has he become the victim of on organ theft? Is he missing a kidney? Pastor starts to put everything in Question; being a father, a husband, a salesman... The only thing he wants is to find out what has happened to him and nothing and nobody will stop him.
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Another Life
Title: Another Life
Character: Dolorès
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: Movie
The South of France. Internationally famous pianist Aurore collapses one night during a performance, over-exhausted from too many concerts. Tired of music, she believes she no longer has anything to offer her public. Then she meets Jean, an electrician who installs residential security systems. Despite their differences, they immediately fall in love and plan a new life together. Jean intends to leave his long-time partner, Dolorès, but she will stop at nothing to keep him.
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Title: À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Character: Lisa
Released: December 4, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
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Farewell, My Queen
Title: Farewell, My Queen
Character: La duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac
Released: March 21, 2012
Type: Movie
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
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Title: XIII: The Series
Character: Irina
Released: April 18, 2011
Type: TV
After a plot to kill the president of the USA an agent with lost memories tries to recover his life and memories. Others use him to cover up some dirty business involving high ranking officials from the CIA and the White House.
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All That Glitters
Title: All That Glitters
Character: Agathe
Released: March 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Best friends Ely and Lila share everything together, including their dream of a life beyond the Paris suburb they've lived in since childhood. One night they venture into the capital and meet a pair of wealthy young friends at a night club. Ashamed of their working-class background, and seeing an opportunity to escape, Ely and Lila begin to lie their way into this glamorous new world. Falling deeper into their web of lies, the young women begin to lose sight of themselves as their friendship is pushed to the limit.
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Copine de l'ancien ami Biker de José
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Army of Crime
Title: Army of Crime
Character: Mélinée Manouchian
Released: September 16, 2009
Type: Movie
This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.
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Title: C à vous
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.
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Mes amis, mes amours
Title: Mes amis, mes amours
Character: Audrey
Released: July 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal outlook on life and Mac Enzie, the boss of Antoine's agency who is completley in love with Yvonne despite the big age difference.
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A Pain in the Ass
Title: A Pain in the Ass
Character: Louise
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
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Shall We Kiss?
Title: Shall We Kiss?
Character: Julie
Released: June 6, 2007
Type: Movie
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.
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La Forteresse assiégée
Title: La Forteresse assiégée
Character: Impératrice Eugénie
Released: November 22, 2006
Type: Movie
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The Backwoods
Title: The Backwoods
Character: Lucy
Released: September 24, 2006
Type: Movie
An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.
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Holly
Title: Holly
Character: Marie
Released: August 16, 2006
Type: Movie
Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touching and emotional experience. Patrick, an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts, has been 'comfortably numb' in Cambodia for years, when he encounters Holly, a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, in the K11 red light village. The girl has been sold by her impoverished family and smuggled across the border to work as a prostitute.
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The Valet
Title: The Valet
Character: Emilie
Released: March 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
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House of Voices
Title: House of Voices
Character: Anna Jurin
Released: June 23, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan, Judith, left behind because of her mental problems, and they become closer when Anna find that Judith also hear voices and footsteps of children.
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Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ?
Title: Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ?
Released: June 4, 2003
Type: Movie
FBI Agents Bullit and Riper investigate the murder of a young dancer called Pamela Rose, found dead in her motel room in Bornsville, a small american town. Despite their differences, they must team up: the local police is hostile and they can only count on themselves to solve the crime. They meet Ginger, Pamela's best friend, and discover soon enough she knows more than she says.
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Bon Voyage
Title: Bon Voyage
Character: Camille
Released: April 16, 2003
Type: Movie
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
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8 Women
Title: 8 Women
Character: Suzon
Released: February 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
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All About Love
Title: All About Love
Character: Maria
Released: April 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a single day on the job she quits, claiming the work hurts her hands and she'd rather start her own restaurant. As Maria plots her next move, she impulsively swipes a piece of lingerie from a store, then tries to lie her way out of the situation when she's caught. But Maria finds that words can't get her out of this bind, and soon she's in jail and dealing with much deeper trouble than she ever imagined possible.
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Title: La Cape et l'épée
Character: La fille que tout le monde veut sortir avec
Released: November 4, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Les Misérables
Character: Cosette
Released: September 4, 2000
Type: TV
Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.
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The Beach
Title: The Beach
Character: Françoise
Released: February 3, 2000
Type: Movie
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
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Late August, Early September
Title: Late August, Early September
Character: Anne
Released: February 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
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In All Innocence
Title: In All Innocence
Character: Cécile Maudet
Released: October 6, 1998
Type: Movie
High-profile lawyer Michel takes on the defence of a young and pretty small-time thief, Cécile, after the botched hold-up of a jewellery shop. As predicted by his elegant art-dealer and sculptress wife Viviane, Michel goes well beyond his brief, jeopardising his career and ruining his marriage of 18 years.
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Title: A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Character: Billy's Mother
Released: September 18, 1998
Type: Movie
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.
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Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
Title: Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
Character: Jeanne
Released: April 22, 1998
Type: Movie
Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has finally found it with Olivier. However, Olivier reveals he has AIDS and disappears from her life after her profession of love and confession of infidelity.
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La Vie de Marianne
Title: La Vie de Marianne
Character: Marianne
Released: September 8, 1997
Type: Movie
In the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century, the fate of Marianne child who survived the deadly attack on a convoy.
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Heroines
Title: Heroines
Character: Johanna
Released: August 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville, a mining town in France and sing in the music group "The Sirens". Suddenly their paths in music and in life drastically change...
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Crack 6T
Title: Crack 6T
Character: La fille au pistolet
Released: July 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Outwardly a chilling portrait of the aimless lives of unemployed inner city youths living on society's fringe, the underlying message of this volatile drama seems to call for violence to rectify social injustices. The film centers on two teenaged gangs who basically terrorize their neighborhoods with their anarchic behavior. There are few limits to their unpleasant philosophy of "desire equals acquisition." The loosely structured tale reaches its climax at a concert where the two rival groups collide.
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Mahjong
Title: Mahjong
Character: Marthe
Released: December 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Winston Chen, a prominent businessman, goes missing after racking up $100 million in debts to the Taipei underworld. Two enforcers sent to find him, and they track down his son, Red Fish, the leader of a street gang.
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A Single Girl
Title: A Single Girl
Character: Valérie
Released: November 29, 1995
Type: Movie
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
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La Ceremonie
Title: La Ceremonie
Character: Melinda
Released: August 30, 1995
Type: Movie
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
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Cold Water
Title: Cold Water
Character: Christine
Released: July 6, 1994
Type: Movie
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.
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La Règle de l'homme
Title: La Règle de l'homme
Character: Violette
Released: May 16, 1994
Type: Movie
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La folie douce
Title: La folie douce
Character: Charlie Léger
Released: March 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Edouard gives pieces of advice on a radio station, but when he tries to use them in real life with his friends, his skills are dubious.
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The Groundhogs
Title: The Groundhogs
Character: Samantha
Released: November 10, 1993
Type: Movie
A story of a family with numerous members drowned in their sentimental problems.
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The Children Thief
Title: The Children Thief
Character: Gabrielle
Released: September 25, 1991
Type: Movie
Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.
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Mima
Title: Mima
Character: Mima
Released: January 16, 1991
Type: Movie
Mima and her Italian family live in France. When her grandfather is killed, she discovers that they have a long-running family feud with the mafia.
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Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Title: Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Character: Berthe
Released: November 4, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returnd home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold those men.
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Title: Contre toi
Character: Esther Cavalieri
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Sur la dalle
Title: Sur la dalle
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie