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 Ma?wenn (sometimes credited as Ma?wenn Besco or her birth name Ma?wenn Le Besco, born 17 April 1976) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.Ma?wenn Le Besco was born in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, a suburban area east of Paris. Ma?wenn is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French, and Algerian descent. Her Algerian ancestry comes from her maternal grandfather. Ma?wenn's mother, Catherine Belkhodja, introduced her to the entertainment industry at a young age, an experience later chronicled by Ma?wenn in her one-woman shows Le Pois Chiche (The Chickpea) and I'm an Actress.Ma?wenn starred in several films as a child, then teen, actress--notably as the child version of the lead role played by Isabelle Adjani in the hit film One Deadly Summer (1983).Following her marriage to director Luc Besson and the birth of their daughter in 1993, Ma?wenn interrupted her career for several years. During this period, she only appeared in a supporting part in Besson's L��on: The Professional (1994), in which she was credited as Ouin-Ouin. She also directed the film's making-of. Perhaps Ma?wenn's most internationally-seen film role was her appearance as the alien Diva Bazina in Besson's The Fifth Element (1997).After her breakup with Besson, Ma?wenn returned to France. She performed as a standup comedian in an autobiographical one-woman-show, and reentered the movie business after several filmmakers saw her comedy routine in Paris. She appeared in several notable movies, including the horror film High Tension (2003), in which she starred opposite C��cile de France. By the time the film came out in 2003, she had decided she wanted to try directing. In 2006, she directed her first feature film, the semi-autobiographical Pardonnez-moi (2006). According to Ma?wenn, after Besson learned she planned to use her own money to produce the film, he told her "You need to immediately stop what you're doing. You're crazy. Nobody puts their own money into a movie." After seeing the film he apologized, saying she was right on this occasion. Her second film was All About Actresses (2009), in which she appears as herself making a documentary. She achieved international recognition when her third film, the social drama Polisse (2011), won the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. All three films feature Ma?wenn with a camera, stemming from a childhood fascination and her interest in the mise en abyme, the story within a story. Her 2015 film My King (2015) was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, with Emmanuelle Bercot winning the Best Actress award.Ma?wenn met film director Luc Besson when she was 12 and they began dating when she was 15. In January 1993, at age 16, she gave birth to their daughter Shanna. On the DVD extras for the 1994 film L��on: The Professional, Ma?wenn said the film is based on her relationship with Besson. She was 20 at the beginning of filming (early 1996) for The Fifth Element, during which Besson left her for the film's star, Milla Jovovich.In 2004, Ma?wenn had a son, Diego, with Jean-Yves Le Fur, her second ex-husband who is a real estate developer.
Bio:
Ma?wenn (sometimes credited as Ma?wenn Besco or her birth name Ma?wenn Le Besco, born 17 April 1976) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.Ma?wenn Le Besco was born in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, a suburban area east of Paris. Ma?wenn is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French, and Algerian descent. Her Algerian ancestry comes from her maternal grandfather. Ma?wenn's mother, Catherine Belkhodja, introduced her to the entertainment industry at a young age, an experience later chronicled by Ma?wenn in her one-woman shows Le Pois Chiche (The Chickpea) and I'm an Actress.Ma?wenn starred in several films as a child, then teen, actress--notably as the child version of the lead role played by Isabelle Adjani in the hit film One Deadly Summer (1983).Following her marriage to director Luc Besson and the birth of their daughter in 1993, Ma?wenn interrupted her career for several years. During this period, she only appeared in a supporting part in Besson's L��on: The Professional (1994), in which she was credited as Ouin-Ouin. She also directed the film's making-of. Perhaps Ma?wenn's most internationally-seen film role was her appearance as the alien Diva Bazina in Besson's The Fifth Element (1997).After her breakup with Besson, Ma?wenn returned to France. She performed as a standup comedian in an autobiographical one-woman-show, and reentered the movie business after several filmmakers saw her comedy routine in Paris. She appeared in several notable movies, including the horror film High Tension (2003), in which she starred opposite C��cile de France. By the time the film came out in 2003, she had decided she wanted to try directing. In 2006, she directed her first feature film, the semi-autobiographical Pardonnez-moi (2006). According to Ma?wenn, after Besson learned she planned to use her own money to produce the film, he told her "You need to immediately stop what you're doing. You're crazy. Nobody puts their own money into a movie." After seeing the film he apologized, saying she was right on this occasion. Her second film was All About Actresses (2009), in which she appears as herself making a documentary. She achieved international recognition when her third film, the social drama Polisse (2011), won the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. All three films feature Ma?wenn with a camera, stemming from a childhood fascination and her interest in the mise en abyme, the story within a story. Her 2015 film My King (2015) was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, with Emmanuelle Bercot winning the Best Actress award.Ma?wenn met film director Luc Besson when she was 12 and they began dating when she was 15. In January 1993, at age 16, she gave birth to their daughter Shanna. On the DVD extras for the 1994 film L��on: The Professional, Ma?wenn said the film is based on her relationship with Besson. She was 20 at the beginning of filming (early 1996) for The Fifth Element, during which Besson left her for the film's star, Milla Jovovich.In 2004, Ma?wenn had a son, Diego, with Jean-Yves Le Fur, her second ex-husband who is a real estate developer.
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She appeared in her then-husband's film, The Fifth Element (1997), alongside her husband's future wife, Milla Jovovich.She may be the inspiration for Mathilda in L��on: The Professional (1994). She met writer/ director Luc Besson when she was 12 (Mathilda's age in the film). In later years they were romantically involved and had a child.At 16 she married producer/director Luc Besson and gave birth to her first child, Shanna. Following her 1997 divorce from Besson, she married Jean-Yves Le Fur and welcomed son Diego.Her mother encouraged her to be a child actress. She ended up being fairly traumatized, but later found success with a one-woman show that recounted her real-life experiences as an aspiring child star and struggling actress.Had a daughter named Shanna Besson in 1993 with French director Luc Besson.She wrote and performed two solo theatrical pieces based on her experiences as a child actress: I'm an Actress and Le Pois Chiche.Has a son named Diego (b. 2004) with Jean-Yves.Sister of Isild Le Besco.Sister of Jowan Le Besco.Daughter of Catherine Belkhodja. |
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Ma?wenn |
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Actress,Writer,Director (IMDB) |
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All World |
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| Height: |
5' 8' (1.73 m) |
| Biography: |
Ma?wenn (sometimes credited as Ma?wenn Besco or her birth name Ma?wenn Le Besco, born 17 April 1976) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.Ma?wenn Le Besco was born in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, a suburban area east of Paris. |
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She appeared in her then-husband's film, The Fifth Element (1997), alongside her husband's future wife, Milla Jovovich.She may be the inspiration for Mathilda in L��on: The Professional (1994). She met writer/ director Luc Besson when she was 12 (Mathilda's age in the film). In later years they were romantically involved and had a child.At 16 she married producer/director Luc Besson and gave birth to her first child, Shanna. Following her 1997 divorce from Besson, she married Jean-Yves Le Fur and welcomed son Diego.Her mother encouraged her to be a child actress. She ended up being fairly traumatized, but later found success with a one-woman show that recounted her real-life experiences as an aspiring child star and struggling actress.Had a daughter named Shanna Besson in 1993 with French director Luc Besson.She wrote and performed two solo theatrical pieces based on her experiences as a child actress: I'm an Actress and Le Pois Chiche.Has a son named Diego (b. 2004) with Jean-Yves.Sister of Isild Le Besco.Sister of Jowan Le Besco.Daughter of Catherine Belkhodja. |
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[press conference for My King (2015) at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival] I had made a sort of narcissistic trilogy and I wanted to turn up in a track-suit in the morning and focus solely on the actors. With each new film you want to do something different and new, so this was one of the new things I wanted to try out. Also, I wanted to have Emmanuelle [Emmanuelle Bercot] in the film. No one's irreplaceable, but I didn't know how I would make the film without her. I didn't know Vincent [Vincent Cassel], then I had a drink with him, and then I was absolutely 110 per cent sure that he was the right person. I had so many things to say about the relationship of those two people that I wanted to depict them in their life with their parents, their friends, their work, but there were so many things that I wanted to show.......the film spans ten years in the life of a couple, but you only have two hours, and Etienne [Etienne Comar] constantly encouraged me to stick to the topic because I tended to meander into other areas. The love story is something I've depicted in all my films for the past ten years. Recently a friend talked about an accident he'd had and how he'd stayed in a rehabilitation centre and that fascinated me, so I wanted to make a film about that too. As each film takes between two and four years, and time is marching on, I thought I'll make two films in one and at the same time one can focus on the things one really wants to concentrate on, and also I could jump around in time. Tony, the female character, in this way, could have a bit of hindsight in her judgement of past events.
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[Cannes press conference for My King (2015)] Georgio is addicted to the woman he loves and he explains it in the film. It's just that he has a different way of being addicted, he has a different way of fighting for his couple. Men and women have the same feelings but they express them differently. It's very difficult to put everything in a film. In other words, everything that helps one to love and to continue to love - family, friends, money, work - I had to make choices. There were many more scenes of Tony who was working, defending her cases because she's a lawyer, but I had to make certain choices and in the end I decided to focus on their mutual feelings instead of meandering. The scenes where you see Tony at work, well I thought these scenes might in fact distract the spectators.
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As soon as you're not happy people call you a poorly-laid hysterical woman - sexually frustrated. But when a man's not happy you don't say anything. It's normal. He's the boss. I call that ordinary misogyny.
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When I'm shooting a film I don't have any libido, I don't feel like getting dressed up or making myself pretty, I forget my femininity and in fact I completely forget myself. I feed myself poorly. I dress poorly. I'm completely disconnected from my femininity, my lover's desire, of my fragility. I feel like I'm expending all of my energy looking at other people and making people believe that everything is going great even though it's not going that great.
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[press conference for Polisse (2011) at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival] What really attracted me to the topic was when I saw the passion of the policemen for the job they were doing and I believe that, subconsciously, what really struck me was that it was all about children - maternity, paternity, this is a thread running through all my films - I think that's fairly subconscious. I'd like to say that when I perceived how the police protected itself from human tragedy and human disaster, when I saw how they protected themselves yet there was tremendous interaction in their own lives - that's what really attracted me. A policeman in the juvenile protection unit doesn't stay for more than ten years because the work is so hard and the juvenile protection unit is the one that's least covered by the media. People don't realise how important it is - it's the least appreciated in a sense - it's the unit with the least means. I found it amazing that the drug brigade had such media coverage and such means, yet the JPU should be the one we're most interested in because it's the unit that protects minors. In other words, a minor who commits an offence isn't really dealt with by the JPU, but they're dealt with in accordance with their offence, so you have to see what the JPU does here to protect children. |
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Actress,Writer,Director |
| Others works: |
Played 'The Scarecrow' in The Cranberries "Promises" music video. |
| Spouse: |
Jean-Yves Le Fur (December 2002 - 2004) (divorced, 1 child)Luc Besson (January 2, 1993 - 1997) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Shanna BessonDiego Le Fur |
| Parents: |
Catherine Belkhodja
Patrick Le Besco |
| Relatives: |
Isild Le Besco (Sibling) |
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