Roxane Mesquida Bio - Biography

Name Roxane Mesquida
Height
Naionality Franch
Date of Birth 1-October-1981
Place of Birth Marseille, France
Famous for Acting
Roxane Mesquida is a French actress and model based in Los Angeles. Mesquida grew up in Le Pradet, a little town located in South of France. Her mother, writer Françoise Mesquida, is French/Spanish and her father is Italian/American but Mesquida never got to know him. Mesquida is fluent in English and French, and she also speaks Spanish, Italian and German.

She was discovered at the age of 11, while walking on a road with her mom, by French director Manuel Pradal who was in the middle of the casting process for his movie Mary from the Bay of Angels (Marie Baie des Anges) at the time. She took part in the shooting during the summer after their encounter. In 1998, she also played opposite Isabelle Huppert in The School of Flesh (L'Ecole de la Chair) by Benoît Jacquot. A few years later, she crossed paths with the renowned director who would make her well-known and, according to Roxane, who made her learn her craft: Catherine Breillat. First they collaborated in Fat Girl (À ma sœur !), then in Sex Is Comedy, and they worked together again in 2006 on The Last Mistress, with Asia Argento. In 2006, Mesquida played alongside Vincent Cassel in Sheitan, by Kim Chapiron, after which she decided to move to the United States.

She spends several months in New York, where she attended The Barrow Group with Anne Hathaway, before settling in Los Angeles. Mesquida then played in Kaboom, by independent filmmaker Gregg Araki, as well as in Rubber by Quentin Dupieux, a.k.a. Mr. Oizo. She also starred in Buck 65's music video, "Paper Airplane", and in Gruff Rhys's, "Shark Ridden Waters". Mesquida was spotted by Elite Model Management when she was 14 and she has been working as a model since then. She is currently signed by worldwide modeling agency IMG Models. Over the years Mesquida has worked with many renowned photographers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Ellen von Unwerth for Russian Vogue, Corinne Day for French Vogue, she did the cover of Italian Vogue photographed by Paolo Roversi, the cover of French Playboy photographed by François Rotger, as well as the covers of British Asos, Crash magazine, Citizen K, Express Style, among many others.

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