Ariane Labed

Ariane Labed

Born: May 6, 1984
in Athens, Greece
Ariane Labed (born 8 May 1984) is a Greek-born French actress and film director. She is best known for her feature film debut in Attenberg, for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.

Born to French parents, Ariane Labed lived her first six years in Athens, then six years in Germany. She arrived in France at 12 years old. Ariane studied at Provence University, (Deust Basic training in theater, Bachelor of Performing Arts and Master Dramaturgy and scenic writing). where she co-founded the Vasistas theatre company with Argyro Chioti and went on stage with the National Theater of Greece.

She made her acting debut in Attenberg, a feature film directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, for which she was awarded the Volpi cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival. Ariane went on to feature in a range of French and international projects including Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight, Alice’s Journey by Lucie Borleteau (for which she won Best Actress at the Locarno Festival and was nominated for a César award), The Lobster by Yórgos Lánthimos (winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) and Assassin's Creed by Justin Kurzel (co-starring Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender). Ariane most recently played the lead role in "Trigonometry", a series for the BBC. Ariane wrote and directed her first short film "OLLA" presented at the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival 2019 and selected in numerous festivals around the world including Telluride, the BFI London Film Festival and Sundance. “OLLA” won the Louis le Prince International Short Film award at the Leeds Film Festival in 2019, as well as 3 awards at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2020 including the National Grand Prix prize.

Movies for Ariane Labed...

Swimming Home
Title: Swimming Home
Character: Kitti
Released: January 28, 2024
Type: Movie
Joe and Isabel’s marriage is dying when Kitti, a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their holiday villa in Greece, is invited to stay. Kitti collects and eats poisonous plants, and Nina, their teenage daughter, is enthralled by her. What kind of relief can Kitti provide for this family in crisis?
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Sex Is Comedy: The Revolution of Intimacy Coordinators
Title: Sex Is Comedy: The Revolution of Intimacy Coordinators
Released: November 24, 2023
Type: Movie
A fascinating insight into the role of the intimacy co-ordinator, told through behind-the-scenes access to new queer French TV show Split.
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The Vourdalak
Title: The Vourdalak
Character: Sdenka
Released: October 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d'Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.
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Before We Collapse
Title: Before We Collapse
Character: Fanny
Released: April 19, 2023
Type: Movie
In a dystopia Paris, this is about a campaign manager named Tristan who is knocked sideways when he receives an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test. Potentially suffering from a fatal and incurable genetic illness, Tristan becomes obsessed with the idea of finding the woman who sent him this test. He decides to carry out an investigation, risking his love life and his career in the process.
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My Sole Desire
Title: My Sole Desire
Character: Danseuse fête de la fin
Released: April 5, 2023
Type: Movie
When aimless Manon begins work at À mon seul désir, a strip club that offers high concept performances, she instantly bonds with her fellow strippers, particularly Mia, an aspiring actress with a boyfriend and child. Manon learns that it is “not easy money, but fast money” and when she finds herself falling for Mia, she is forced to question her priorities as she explores her newfound erotic life.
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Flux Gourmet
Title: Flux Gourmet
Character: Lamina Propria
Released: June 24, 2022
Type: Movie
At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders.
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The Souvenir: Part II
Title: The Souvenir: Part II
Character: Garance
Released: October 11, 2021
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
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Title: L'Opéra
Character: Zoé Monin
Released: September 7, 2021
Type: TV
Set in the shrine of French dance, the Garnier Opera house, L'Opera follows three characters whose dreams clash with reality, whose ambitions collide with expectations, and whose purity faces corruption.
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Title: Trigonometry
Character: Ray
Released: March 15, 2020
Type: TV
In crowded and expensive London, cash-strapped couple Gemma and Kieran open their small apartment to a third person. Somehow, their new addition, Ray, makes the flat seem bigger, not smaller. Gradually, many things become easier, nicer and better with an extra pair of hands.
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The Souvenir
Title: The Souvenir
Character: Garance
Released: May 17, 2019
Type: Movie
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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Title: Ad Vitam
Character: Odessa
Released: November 8, 2018
Type: TV
In a future where regeneration technology lets humans live indefinitely, a cop and a troubled young woman investigate a strange wave of youth suicides.
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Title: Ad Vitam
Character: - Participation -
Released: November 8, 2018
Type: TV
In a future where regeneration technology lets humans live indefinitely, a cop and a troubled young woman investigate a strange wave of youth suicides.
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Mary Magdalene
Title: Mary Magdalene
Character: Rachel
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus.
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Assassin's Creed
Title: Assassin's Creed
Character: Maria
Released: December 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he's a descendant of the secret 'Assassins' society. After gaining incredible knowledge and skills, he is now poised to take on the oppressive Knights Templar in the present day.
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The Stopover
Title: The Stopover
Character: Aurore
Released: September 7, 2016
Type: Movie
At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of decompression leave with their unit at a five-star resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it's not that easy to forget the war and leave the violence behind.
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Seances
Title: Seances
Released: April 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are conjured by code. Each will exist only in the moment—no pausing, scrubbing, or sharing—offering the audience one chance to see the generated film. This project, co-created by the ever imaginative Guy Maddin, is a visual discourse on the impact of loss within film. All the sequences pay homage to lost silent films from the early day of cinema. Seances is nostalgic but it is also frequently hilarious. Part of the joy and sadness of Seances is that many possible narratives are created but they can be only viewed once before they disappear forever.
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The Lobster
Title: The Lobster
Character: The Maid
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: Movie
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.
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Despite the Night
Title: Despite the Night
Character: Hélène
Released: October 11, 2015
Type: Movie
After returning to Paris, a heartbroken man searching for his missing lover finds solace, and a passionate but troubled love, with a grieving nurse. This unconventional romance unfolds against a backdrop of music and defies expectations, venturing into uncharted emotional territory.
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Préjudice
Title: Préjudice
Character: Caroline
Released: October 7, 2015
Type: Movie
A challenging psychological drama where the carefully nurtured harmony of a family is shattered one lovely summer evening. Cédric, who is generally shut away in a world of his own, doesn't react very well to the happy news of his sister’s pregnancy.
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The Forbidden Room
Title: The Forbidden Room
Character: Alicia Warlock / The Chambermaid
Released: October 7, 2015
Type: Movie
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
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The Revelations 2015
Title: The Revelations 2015
Released: January 7, 2015
Type: Movie
For the 9th consecutive year, the Revelations Committee of the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques took care to distinguish 16 actresses and 16 actors whose performances particularly marked the year 2014. Mathieu César, a talented photographer with an evocative name, has had a career that is both atypical and dazzling. He imagined, in his characteristic black and white, a cinematographic atmosphere mixing fiction and reality.
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Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey
Title: Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey
Character: Alice
Released: September 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction - In such conditions can an all-male crew really remain totally insensitive to her charms? A situation all the more complicated as not only does Alice leave her fiancé Felix behind but she also discovers on board the Fidélio that the captain is Gaël, her first love.
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Love Island
Title: Love Island
Character: Liliane
Released: August 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Love Island tells the story of a pregnant French woman who lives in Sarajevo with her Bosnian husband and their daughter. They go for a vacation at a Croatian island, where things get complicated when they all become attracted to a beautiful woman.
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Intimate Semaphores
Title: Intimate Semaphores
Character: Laurel
Released: May 29, 2014
Type: Movie
A collection of three strange and comedic short stories examining the perils of artistic expression.
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High and Dry
Title: High and Dry
Character: Laurel
Released: May 29, 2014
Type: Movie
A privileged photographer learns that she needs to cry genuine, cathartic tears in order to keep from going blind, a pursuit which alienates and upsets those around her including her musician boyfriend who is grappling with depression.
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Magic Men
Title: Magic Men
Character: Maria
Released: March 27, 2014
Type: Movie
An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ceremony, however he went instead to search for his friend from the childhood, who saved him from the Holocaust. In meantime he formed a special relationship with young Greek woman, and dealt with the broken relationship with his devout Hasidic son.
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The Revelations 2014
Title: The Revelations 2014
Released: January 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Every year since 2007, the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques highlights thirty-two young talents through the “Révélations” project, directed this year by Antoine Carlier. This talented and visionary photographer was able to magnify each of them by offering an elegant and very cinematic staging, through the lens of his camera.
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A Place On Earth
Title: A Place On Earth
Character: Elena Morin
Released: August 28, 2013
Type: Movie
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter.
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Before Midnight
Title: Before Midnight
Character: Anna
Released: April 5, 2013
Type: Movie
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.
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The Capsule
Title: The Capsule
Character: Woman #1
Released: August 3, 2012
Type: Movie
Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.
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Ariane
Title: Ariane
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Portrait of an actress Ariane Labed wearing Giorgio Armani.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Catarina
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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Alps
Title: Alps
Character: Gymnast
Released: September 1, 2011
Type: Movie
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.
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Attenberg
Title: Attenberg
Character: Marina
Released: December 9, 2010
Type: Movie
Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."
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Title: Sud-est
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV