Mélusine Mayance

Born: 1999-03-21

Mélusine Mayance (born 21 March 1999 in Paris) is a French actress. She is best known for her role in the 2010 French-Language film "Sarah's Key", in which she portrayed the childhood version of the story's main character "Sarah Starzynski" (whose life story is uncovered and told by Kristin Scott Thomas's character many decades after the end of the second world war). Known in French as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the historical fiction film is set in 1942 France, in the midst of the second world war. Mélusine's character is a young Jewish child whose family is rounded up and arrested in downtown Paris during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup before being sent to Auschwitz for extermination. Mayance rose to success while starring in films such as Vive Les Vacances! and Ricky in which she plays the half-sister of an infant boy who grows a pair of wings.


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Sarah's Key

as Sarah Starzynski, child
Released: 2010-09-16

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and...

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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

as Lisbeth
Released: 2013-08-14

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a...

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The Brats

as Mimi Zozo
Released: 2013-04-17

Newly engaged, Thomas meets his future father-in-law Gilbert, who has been married for 30 years...

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Ricky

as Lisa
Released: 2009-02-11

When Katie meets Paco, they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who...

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The Skin of Sorrow

as La Mediante
Released: 2010-09-22

It's 1832, 22-year-old Raphaël's gambling has driven him to the brink of suicide. As he is...

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Brotherhood of Tears

as Juliette Chevalier
Released: 2013-10-09

Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives...

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Les Associés

as Émilie
Released: 2009-09-19

Three men in a flat are waiting on a big drug deal that's about to go down in the neighborhood...

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Bouquet final

as Charlotte
Released: 2011-06-21

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A Suspension of Innocence

as Julie
Released: 2010-09-01

In a rural setting on the weather-beaten French Atlantic coast, the ten year old daughter of a...

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Ça va passer... mais quand ?

as Paola
Released: 2014-04-27

Sophie and Patrick are a well-off couple who are offered the prospect of changing their city by...

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Miroir mon amour

as Blanche Neige enfant
Released: 2012-10-26

The story starts where the tale ends: Snow White wakes up to the age of sexuality and discovers...

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