Virginie Ledoyen began her film career early at the age 10 in the coming-of-age film ‘Exploits of a Young Don Juan’ (1986). Further she appeared in the TV series ‘La Vie en panne’ (1988) and ‘Haute Tension’ (1990), the drama film ‘The Children Thief’ (1991), and played the title role in the crime-drama film ‘Mima’ (1991).
Ledoyen’s roles as ‘Samantha’ in 1993 film ‘Les Marmottes,’ as ‘Christine’ in drama-film ‘Cold Water’ (1994), and as ‘Valerie Sergent’ (considered as her breakthrough role) in drama-film ‘A Single Girl’ (1995) fetched her nominations for ‘Cesar Award for Most Promising Actress.’
Thereafter, Ledoyen starred in crime-drama film ‘La Ceremonie’ (1995), two telefilms ‘La Vie de marianne’ (1995) and ‘Les sensuels’ (1995), Taiwanese comedy-film that got an ‘Honorable Mention’ at Berlin Film Festival ‘Mahjong’ (1996), satirical-film ‘Ma 6-T Va Crack-er’ (1997) and starring role in drama-film ‘Heroines’ (1997).
Ledoyen’s lead role as ‘Jeanne’ in romantic-musical-drama-film ‘The Perfect Guy’ (1998) won her the ‘Best Actress Award’ at the ‘Paris Film Festival.’ Next she appeared in James Ivory-directed American drama-film ‘A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries’ (1998), French drama-films ‘Late August, Early September’ (1998) & ‘De L’Amour’ (2001), and crime-drama-romance film ‘In All Innocence’ (1998).
Ledoyen’s starring role (as Francoise) alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton in Danny Boyle’s adventure-drama-film ‘The Beach’ (2000) earned her ‘Teen Choice Award’ nomination while her performance (as Suzon) in an ensemble cast of renowned French actresses in dark-comedy musical-film ‘8 Women’ (2002) won her ‘Silver Bear for Outstanding Achievement’ and ‘European Film Award for Best Actress.’
Ledoyen played ‘Cosette’ in TV-miniseries ‘Les Miserables’ (2002). She further starred in French-film ‘Bon Voyage’ (2003), French-Romanian horror-film ‘Saint Ange’ (2004), comedy-film ‘The Valet’ (2006), drama-film ‘Holly’ (2006), Spanish-British thriller-film ‘The Backwoods’ (2006), followed by French romantic-comedy ‘Shall We Kiss?’ (2007), ‘London mon amour’ (2008) and French war-drama film ‘The Army of Crime’ (2009).
Ledoyen also starred in many TV-series including ‘Myster Mocky Presente’ (2009, 2020), ‘XIII: The Series’ (2011), ‘Scenes de menages’ (2013), ‘Juste un Regard’ (2017). Her later films include ‘Tout ce qui brille’ (2010), drama-film ‘Farewell, My Queen’ (2012), romantic-drama-film ‘Another Life’ (2013), ‘A Votre bon Coeur mesdames’ (2013), drama-film ‘Ablations’ (2014), crime-thriller ‘Rabid Dogs’ (2015), comedy-film ‘MILF’ (2018), adventure-drama-historical-film ‘Remi sans famille’ (2018), ‘Notre Dame’ (2019) and ‘A Magical Journey’ (2019). In recent years she starred in TV-series ‘They were ten’ (2020), ‘Nona & Her Daughters’ (2021), and ‘L’ile aux 30 cercueils’ (2022).
