Chiara Mastroianni facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Chiara Mastroianni
Mastroianni in 2013
Born	Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni (1972-05-28) 28 May 1972 (age 53) Paris, France
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1993–present
Spouse(s)	Benjamin Biolay ​ ​ (m. 2002; div. 2009)​
Children	2
Parents	Marcello Mastroianni (father) Catherine Deneuve (mother)
Relatives	Christian Vadim (half-brother) Maurice Dorléac (grandfather) Renée Simonot (grandmother) Ruggero Mastroianni (uncle) Françoise Dorléac (aunt)

Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni (born 28 May 1972) is a French actress and singer. She is the daughter of actors Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.

Early life

Mastroianni was born to French actress Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni. Her parents stayed together for four years, separating in 1975, when Chiara was two years old.

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 (who died 5 years before Chiara was born) and Sylvie Dorléac.

Career

Mastroianni earned a César Award nomination for her first feature film appearance in André Téchiné's My Favorite Season (1993), starring her mother in the lead role. The next year she played Kim Basinger's assistant in Prêt-à-Porter, directed by Robert Altman. She worked with Poupaud again in Three Lives and Only One Death (1996), playing the daughter of her real-life father, and in Time Regained (1999), also starring her mother.

Along with a few supporting performances in French films, she appeared in Gregg Araki's Nowhere (1997) 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 (1999), based on Madame de La Fayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves.

After appearances in Mike Figgis's Hotel (2001) and Le parole di mio padre (2001), she played the lead in Delphine Gleize's interconnected drama Carnages (2002), 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 (1994) and Three Lives and Only One Death (1996).

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 (1993). 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 remained friends for decades, with Poupaud saying he still loved her in 2018.

In 1996, Mastroianni gave birth to son, whose father is sculptor Pierre Thoretton. In 2002, she married singer Benjamin Biolay. They had a daughter in 2003, and divorced in 2009.

Filmography

Mastroianni at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Chiara Mastroianni para niños