Maïwenn (French pronunciation: [maiwɛn lə bɛsko]; born Maïwenn Le Besco on 17 April 1976 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France) is a French actress and film director.
She is the daughter of actress Catherine Belkhodja, 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". Maïwenn Le Besco starred in several films as a child ...
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Maïwenn (French pronunciation: [maiwɛn lə bɛsko]; born Maïwenn Le Besco on 17 April 1976 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France) is a French actress and film director.
She is the daughter of actress Catherine Belkhodja, 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". Maïwenn Le Besco starred in several films as a child and teenage actress, notably as "Elle as a child" (the child version of the lead role played by Isabelle Adjani) in the hit film L'été meurtrier (One Deadly Summer, 1983). In 1991, due to her difficult relationship with her parents, she decided to use only her given name professionally.
She met director and producer Luc Besson in 1991. The two later began a relationship, after which Maïwenn, having lost her motivation as an actress, interrupted her career for several years. She lived in Beverly Hills raising the daughter she had had with...
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