Maïwenn Le Besco

Maïwenn Le Besco (born April 17 1976 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France) is a French actress sometimes referred to as Maïwenn or Ouin-ouin.

She is the daughter of actress Catherine Belkhodja and a Breton father (hence her Breton last name and the Breton surnames of their children), who ushered her into the entertainment industry at a young age (an experience later chronicled by Le Besco in her one-woman shows "Le Pois Chiche" and "I'm an Actress"). Originally a club performer and standup comedienne, Le Besco entered the movie business after a several filmmakers saw her comedy routine in Paris and offered her a chance to be a part of their upcoming project, the horror film "Haute Tension" (English title: "High Tension"), in which she starred opposite Cécile de France. Perhaps Maïwenn's most prominent American film role was her appearance (albeit in heavy makeup and prosthetics) as the alien diva Plavalaguna in Luc Besson's "The Fifth Element" (1997).

Private life

Maïwenn had a daughter, Shana, in 1993 with director Luc Besson. They were still engaged at the beginning of filming for "The Fifth Element", during which Besson left her for Milla Jovovich. ["The Fifth Element", Special Features of both the "Ultimate Edition DVD" and the remastered "Blu-ray Disc".] Maïwenn later had a son, Diego, with her second husband.

References

Complete filmography

Actress

* 1981 : "L'Année prochaine... si tout va bien" de Jean-Loup Hubert : "Prune"
* 1983 : "L'Été meurtrier" de Jean Becker : "Éliane" (Isabelle Adjani) jeune
* 1988 : "L'Autre nuit" de Jean-Pierre Limosin : "Joan"
* 1990 : "Lacenaire" de Francis Girod : "Hermine"
* 1991 : "La Gamine" de Hervé Palud : "Carole Lambert"
* 1996 : "The Fifth Element" (dir Luc Besson) : La Diva Plavalaguna
* 2001 : "8, rue Charlot de Bruno Garcia : Karine
* 2003 : "Haute Tension" de Alexandre Aja : "Alex"
* 2004 : "Osmose" de Raphaël Fejtö : une amie à la fête
* 2004 : "Les Parisiens" de Claude Lelouch : la chanteuse Shaa
* 2005 : "Le Courage d'aimer" de Claude Lelouch : "Shaa"
* 2006 : "Pardonnez-moi" de Maïwenn : "Violette"
* 2008 : "Le bal des actrices"

cénariste

* 2006 : "Pardonnez-moi
* 2008 : "Le bal des actrices"

Auteure de théâtre

* 2003 : "Café de la gare : Le pois chiche

Director

* 2004 : "I am an actrice
* 2006 : "Pardonnez-moi
* 2008 : "Le bal des actrices"

Producer

with the fundacon 2005 MAI productions society
* 2006 : "Pardonnez-moi

External links

* [http://www.maiwenn.com/ Maïwenn sur son site personnel]
* [http://filmos.actricesdefrance.org/L/Maiwenn_Le_Besco_ActFra.html Liste et affiches des films de Maîwenn]
* imdb name|0494069