Chiara Mastroianni


Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni is a French actress and singer. She is the daughter of actors Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.
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Early life

Mastroianni was born to French actress Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni. Her parents were both married to other people at the time of their affair and stayed together for four years, separating in 1974, when Chiara was two years old. She later revealed that she could not recall them being together: "I've never seen my parents together, never in my whole life. They split when I was two, so I've no recollection of them as a couple. I've never even seen them kiss except in the movies."
Mastroianni has two half-siblings, a brother, Christian Vadim, from her mother's relationship with director Roger Vadim, and a sister, Barbara Mastroianni, from her father's marriage to actress Flora Carabella. Carabella is rumoured to have offered to adopt Mastroianni and raise her with her older sister as both her parents worked often and travelled from home, an offer Deneuve rejected.
Through her mother, Mastroianni is connected to the famous Dorléac family of actors, which includes her maternal grandparents, Maurice Dorléac and Renée Simonot, and her aunts, Françoise Dorléac and Sylvie Dorléac.

Career

Mastroianni earned a César Award nomination for her first feature film appearance in André Téchiné's My Favorite Season, starring her mother in the lead role. The next year she played Kim Basinger's assistant in Prêt-à-Porter, directed by Robert Altman. Her first starring role came in 1995, opposite Melvil Poupaud in Le Journal du séducteur, a romantic comedy inspired by "The Seducer's Diary" chapter from Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or. She worked with Poupaud again in Three Lives and Only One Death, playing the daughter of her real-life father, and in Time Regained, also starring her mother.
Along with a few supporting performances in French films, she appeared in Gregg Araki's Nowhere and took time off to have her first child with sculptor Pierre Thoretton. She returned to filmmaking to star in Manoel de Oliveira's The Letter, based on Madame de La Fayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves.
After appearances in Mike Figgis's Hotel and Le parole di mio padre, she played the lead in Delphine Gleize's interconnected drama Carnages, a winner at several international film festivals. In 2003, she starred in the comedy drama Il est plus facile pour un chameau....
In July 2016, Mastroianni was named a member of the main competition jury for the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. In 2019 she won the Un Certain Regard Best Performance award for On a Magical Night.
In 2024, Mastroianni was appointed Jury member at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival for its section 'International competition'.

Collaborations

Mastroianni is a friend and frequent collaborator of French filmmaker Christophe Honoré. She has appeared in roughly half of his films in either major roles or cameos, beginning with the 2007 film Love Songs.
Before her father's death she appeared in two films with him, Prêt-à-Porter and Three Lives and Only One Death.
Mastroianni also works frequently with her mother; they often play mother and daughter onscreen. Mastroianni first appeared in one of Deneuve's films in 1979 in an uncredited role in Us Two. Her second onscreen appearance also occurred in one of her mother's films, My Favorite Season. Other notable films in which Mastroianni has acted opposite Deneuve include Persepolis, A Christmas Tale, Three Hearts and Claire Darling.
Mastroianni collaborated with her then-husband, musician Benjamin Biolay, on the album Home, released in 2004. She also appeared on the track ¡Encore Encore! on Biolay's 2017 album Volver.

Personal life

Mastroianni dated actor Melvil Poupaud for four years from the age of 16 to 20. He encouraged her to pursue acting as a career and they have remained friends for decades, with Poupaud saying he still loved her in 2018.
On 31 December 1996, Mastroianni gave birth to a son, Milo Thoretton, whose father is sculptor Pierre Thoretton. In 2002, she married singer Benjamin Biolay. They had a daughter, Anna Biolay, on 22 April 2003, and divorced in 2005.
Mastroianni has also dated Edoardo Ponti, François Cluzet, Benicio del Toro, Andrea Di Stefano, Vincent Lindon and Benoît Poelvoorde.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1993Ma saison préféréeAnneNominated – César Award for Most Promising Actress
1993A la belle étoileClaire
1994Prêt-à-PorterSophie Choiset
1995All Men are MortalFrançoise
1995Le Journal du séducteurClaire Conti
1995Don't Forget You're Going to DieClaudia
1996Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle)Patricia
1996Three Lives and Only One DeathCécile
1996CameleoneLéa
1997NowhereKriss
1998On a très peu d'amisVivianne
1998À vendreMireille
1999Le temps retrouvéAlbertine
1999Libero BurroRosa Agnello
1999La LettreMadame de Clèves
2000Six-PackMarine
2001HotelInfirmière de l'hotel
2001Le parole di mio padreAda Malfenti
2002CarnagesCarlotta
2003Il est plus facile pour un chameau...Bianca
2005AkoibonBarbara
2007L'Heure zéroAudrey Neuville
2007PersepolisMarjane Satrapi
2007Les Chansons d'amourJeanne
2008A Christmas TaleSilvia
2008La Belle PersonneLa jeune femme dans le café
2008Le crime est notre affaireEmma Charpentier
2009Un chat un chatNathalie/Célimène
2009Park BenchesMarianne's mother
2009Making Plans For LenaLena
2010Man at BathActress
2011Chicken with PlumsLili
2011BelovedVéra PasserNominated – Lumière Award for Best Actress
2011AmericanoClaire
2012Lines of WellingtonHussar
2013BastardsRaphaëlle
2014La Rançon de la gloireRosa
2014Three HeartsSophie
2016Saint-Amour
2018La Dernière Folie de Claire DarlingMarie Darling
2019On a Magical NightMaria MortemartUn Certain Regard – Best Actress
Nominated – César Award for Best Actress
2019The Girl with a BraceletCéline Bataille
2022Other People's Children Alice
2022Cet été-làLouise
2023EurekaEl Coronel / Maya
2024Langue Étrangère
2024Marcello MioHerself / Marcello