Louise Bourgoin (; born Ariane Louise Bourgoin, 28 November 1981) is a French actress.

Life and career

Bourgoin was born on 28 November 1981 in

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

. Bourgoin's parents, both secondary level teachers, encouraged her to pursue a stable career. She studied for five years at the

École des Beaux-Arts ; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...

in Rennes. She became a

plastic arts Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical manipulation of a ''plastic medium'', such as clay, wax, paint or even plastic in the modern sense of the word (a ductile polymer) to create works of art. The term is used more generally to ...

teacher while simultaneously beginning to work as a

model A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin , . Models can be divided in ...

; some of her most notable early work as a model was for the photographer Ian Sanderson. After graduating in 2004, Bourgoin became a presenter for the television program ''Kawaï !'' on Filles TV channel. Two years later, she made a brief appearance on Direct 8. At the same time, she worked with TV presenter Marc Lacombe on a pilot program for PlayStation TV. This television channel never started broadcasting, and the pilot was never distributed. In 2006, she worked as the weather girl for '' Le Grand Journal'' with

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, which broadcast nightly on Canal+. To avoid audiences confusing her for fellow ''Le Grand Journal'' presenter, Ariane Massenet, , she chose the name "Louise Bourgoin" as a tribute to her favorite sculptor,

Louise Bourgeois Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a varie ...

. In 2007 she was offered a role in a film, playing a television weather girl in '' The Girl From Monaco''. Subsequently, she played in several films including ''

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec ''The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec'' () is a gaslamp fantasy comic book series first appearing in 1976 written and illustrated by French comics artist Jacques Tardi and published in ''album'' format by Belgian publisher Caster ...

'' directed by

Luc Besson Luc Paul Maurice Besson (; born 18 March 1959) is a French filmmaker. He directed and produced the films '' Subway'' (1985), '' The Big Blue'' (1988), and '' La Femme Nikita'' (1990). Associated with the '' Cinéma du look'' film movement, he h ...

and '' Black Heaven'' directed by Gilles Marchand, a film that was screened Out of Competition at the

2010 Cannes Film Festival The 63rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 23 May 2010. American filmmaker Tim Burton served as jury president for the main competition. Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the dram ...

Personal life

In December 2015, it was announced that Bourgoin and electronic musician Tepr were expecting their first child. Bourgoin gave birth to her son, Étienne, on 7 April 2016. In 2020, she gave birth to a second boy.

Filmography

References

External links

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