Roxane Mesquida

Roxane Mesquida

Born: October 1, 1981
in Marseille, France
Roxane Mesquida (born 1 October 1981) is a French actress.

Born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, Mesquida grew up in Le Pradet though, a little town located between Hyères and Toulon in the Var département. She was discovered at the age of 13, while walking on a road in her region, by the director Manuel Pradal who was in the middle of the casting process for his movie Marie Baie des Anges (Mary from the Bay of Angels with Vahina Giocante and Emmanuelle Béart) at the time. She took part in the shooting during the next summer after their encounter.

In 1998, she played in L'École de la chair by Benoît Jacquot and crossed paths with the controversial director who would make her well-known and, according to Mesquida, who made her learn her craft: Catherine Breillat. First they collaborated in À ma sœur! (Fat Girl), then in Sex Is Comedy, and they worked together again during the spring of 2006 on Une vieille Maîtresse with Asia Argento.

She wanted to go to Art School (the Beaux-Arts) but finally abandoned the idea to pursue her career in acting. She is still passionate about the Arts and often visits museums. Her favourite painting is The Scream by Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch.

Among actors of her generation, she admires Romain Duris and Scarlett Johansson but her absolute idol is Romy Schneider and she says she has seen all her movies.

She says she is fiercely opposed to the idea of ever becoming financially dependent to cinéma and that she'd rather do baby-sitting than accept a role in a commercial movie she would not like.

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Movies for Roxane Mesquida...

Fotogenico
Title: Fotogenico
Released: May 19, 2024
Type: Movie
Unable to cope with grief, Raoul arrives in Marseille, the city of his lost daughter. He finds her old friends, her music band, and even her dealer. But where will this much too intimate quest lead him? And what if music was a scream that could light up his heart?
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Quentin Dupieux, filmer fait penser
Title: Quentin Dupieux, filmer fait penser
Character: Self
Released: June 17, 2023
Type: Movie
Meeting with the director Quentin Dupieux, who agreed to open the doors of one of his sets on the set of his film “DAAAAAALI!”.
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Medusa
Title: Medusa
Character: Romane
Released: October 26, 2022
Type: Movie
Romane and Clemence are between 25 and 30 years old, they are sister and they live together in a big house. They lost her mother in a car crash that caused a disability in Clemence: she cannot walk properly or talk and Romane take care of her daily. A fascinating Corsican man, Romane’s new boyfriend, will come in between them as he feels invested in the duty to help the young girl recover. Their complicity grows up to change the relationship. A film that leads to question the power of sisterhood and of female fascination.
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The Gesture and The Word
Title: The Gesture and The Word
Character: Aurore
Released: May 25, 2020
Type: Movie
A lonely postman (Gilbert) secretly recreates postcards for a woman (Aurore) on his postal route when her boyfriend's homemade postcards stop arriving from his travels around the world. With the help of his friend Mr. Rostalle, (Paul Dooley) a blind widower and retired literary professor/poet, Gilbert (James Michael Tyler) learns to open himself up to the prospect of love, and in the process of trying to bring someone else happiness, discovers it for himself.
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Play or Die
Title: Play or Die
Character: Chloe
Released: May 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Welcome to Paranoia, the ultimate escape game. Rule #1: Nothing is real. Rule #2: One of you will die. Lucas and Chloe, two passionate gamers, decide to participate to Paranoia, a very exclusive escape game. After solving a first riddle, they make it to the location of the finale in an abandoned mental hospital, lost in a frightening forest. There, four other participants are waiting on them. They soon realize that only one of them will get out of there alive.
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Title: Now Apocalypse
Character: Severine
Released: March 10, 2019
Type: TV
This surreal, coming-of-age comedy series follows Ulysses and his friends Carly, Ford, and Severine, who are on various quests pursuing love, sex and fame. Between sexual and romantic dating-app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy is going on, or if he is just smoking too much weed.
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Burning Shadow
Title: Burning Shadow
Character: Summer
Released: August 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Charlie, a down-on-his-luck loner, crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact double. Perplexed and intrigued by the discovery, Charlie invites the man into his life.
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Mercury in Retrograde
Title: Mercury in Retrograde
Character: Isabelle
Released: September 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Three couples from Chicago vacation for a weekend at a lakeside cabin in Michigan. Over the course of three days in this comedy/drama, hidden tensions and secrets slowly come to the surface.
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Baby
Title: Baby
Character: Woman
Released: May 7, 2017
Type: Movie
A couple argue about whether or not they should have a baby.
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Despite the Night
Title: Despite the Night
Character: Lena
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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Our Futures
Title: Our Futures
Character: Virginie
Released: July 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Yann who is trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to cope with his life generally and especially bereavement decides to look up Thomas, his best friend from high school. Thomas is thee same crazy character as he ever was and between them they cook up a plan to rearrange Yann's birthday party from their high school days and get all their old friends to come along. This means locating their friends and a journey to visit and convince some of them to join in their plan. How their friends have changed, their lives and the revelations provide plenty of humour. But why is his friend Thomas just the same as he ever was ?
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Reality
Title: Reality
Character: Awards Hostess
Released: February 18, 2015
Type: Movie
A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
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Wrong Cops
Title: Wrong Cops
Character: Girl
Released: December 18, 2013
Type: Movie
A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
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Das Foto-Shoot
Title: Das Foto-Shoot
Character: Model
Released: May 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A photographer tries to get a very specific emotion out of his model inspired by The Holy Mary, John Lennon and German sausages.
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Kiss of the Damned
Title: Kiss of the Damned
Character: Mimi
Released: November 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new relationship, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.
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Wrong Cops: Chapter 1
Title: Wrong Cops: Chapter 1
Character: Young BJ Woman
Released: May 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Duke, a crooked and music-mad cop, patrols in Los Angeles’ streets, music blasting and meets a young techno lover, David Dolores Frank. Appalled by the musical tastes of the young adolescent, Duke decides to give him a good music lesson.
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The Most Fun You Can Have Dying
Title: The Most Fun You Can Have Dying
Character: Sylvie
Released: April 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Michael has life pretty sweet. His girlfriend adores him, his best mate David is loyal to the end, plus David’s girlfriend doesn’t mind a quick hook-up either. But Michael’s self-regarding lifestyle comes crashing down when he is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Desperate not to let his life just fade away, Michael steals the $200,000 raised for his treatment, and catches a one-way flight to London. He isn’t there for long before his nerve and sense of humour earn him a vicious beating in a back alley. Waking up cold and bloodied, he finds himself being watched over by the ethereal Sylvie; a mysterious French drifter. They fall head over heels in love, and attempt to outrun death itself.
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The American Tetralogy
Title: The American Tetralogy
Character: The Tortured Bride
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Entirely made in California, the film brings together 30 American and European actors in an epic which crosses the mythical territories of that cinematic land from Zabriskie Point to Mulholland Drive. California is revisited through the movie memories incarnated by the very presence of famous actors and actresses. "The American Tetralogy" is a way of staging reality which questions the fictional nature of the movies.
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Title: XIII: The Series
Character: Betty Barnowsky
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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Rubber
Title: Rubber
Character: Sheila
Released: November 9, 2010
Type: Movie
A group of people gather in the California desert to watch a "film" set in the late 1990s featuring a sentient, homicidal car tire named Robert. The assembled crowd of onlookers watch as Robert becomes obsessed with a beautiful and mysterious woman and goes on a rampage through a desert town.
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Kaboom
Title: Kaboom
Character: Lorelei
Released: October 6, 2010
Type: Movie
Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?
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Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
Title: Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
Character: Sennentuntschi
Released: September 23, 2010
Type: Movie
1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, a beautiful and mysterious woman shows up. Only the village policeman takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out who she is. There are hints that she came from the Höhenalp Alp, where herdsmen do unthinkable things to get the company of women. Many dark truths are revealed that should better have remained hidden. A tragedy of lust, insanity and murder is brought to a seemlingly pure and perfect world. It is the beginning of a nightmare of religious insanity, hypocrisy, abuse and belief in demons, who destroys a young family and brings a whole village to destruction.
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La dérive
Title: La dérive
Character: Antonin's Sister
Released: May 6, 2009
Type: Movie
This film proposes the allegory of a social drift with all the power of romantic fascination that it can evoke. It is about a meeting oftwo young people formatted by a culture of success with two men embodying a nihilistic and dematerialized vision of society. This work treads the fine line that separates the hero from the loser.. Are these two men messiahs or a pair of wandering vagrants? Is this descent on the river closer to a descent into the fires of hell or rather an initiatory journey?
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Title: Gossip Girl
Character: Beatrice Grimaldi
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: TV
An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.
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The Last Mistress
Title: The Last Mistress
Character: Hermangarde
Released: May 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
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Satan
Title: Satan
Character: Eve
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A group of young people leave a disco and bump into a shepherd who is ready to spend his night worshipping Satan.
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Laura's Paradise
Title: Laura's Paradise
Character: Laura
Released: June 16, 2003
Type: Movie
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Sexes très opposés
Title: Sexes très opposés
Character: Hélène
Released: July 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Ideally, a love story should last for life… But this is often not the case. Does this indicate that men and women are meant to fall in love several times over? Why do people tire of each other? What events lead to a break-up? If they could be identified, could we then eradicate them? Four stories delve, by way of personal accounts and illustration, into relationships that went astray before they should have. Men and women of different ages and social conditions recount their stories. Four couples, four break-ups, four attempts at an explanation – combined with the ambitious aim to amuse!
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Sex Is Comedy
Title: Sex Is Comedy
Character: The Actress
Released: June 5, 2002
Type: Movie
A director struggles with a difficult sex scene between a young actor and actress who can't stand one another. Aided by her loyal assistant, she is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise.
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Fat Girl
Title: Fat Girl
Character: Elena Pingot
Released: March 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.
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The School of Flesh
Title: The School of Flesh
Character: Marine
Released: November 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided, and sometimes hindered, by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances.
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Marie from the Bay of Angels
Title: Marie from the Bay of Angels
Character: Mireille
Released: August 31, 1997
Type: Movie
A random montage of disturbing images tell a story about one summer in the lives of two teenagers who somehow find love within each other, Orso and Marie. After they realize this, they run off to a hidden island off the coast of France where they can not be bothered until Orso's hunger for danger and crime become too much for him, forcing him to return to his normal life...
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Près des falaises, la plage
Title: Près des falaises, la plage
Character: Elisabeth
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie