Ophélie Bau
{{Short description|French actress}}
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|birth_place = Besançon, France
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Ophélie Bau is a French actress best known for her roles in Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno and its sequel Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo.{{cite web |title=Cinéma : Ophélie Bau, ex Miss Besançon, nouvelle muse du réalisateur Abdellatif Kechiche |url=https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/bourgogne-franche-comte/doubs/besancon/cinema-ophelie-bau-ex-miss-besancon-nouvelle-muse-du-realisateur-abdellatif-kechiche-1446491.html |website=France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |access-date=8 July 2020 |language=fr-FR |date=24 March 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Balle |first1=Catherine |title=Qui est Ophélie Bau, la nouvelle bombe d'Abdellatif Kechiche ? |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/cinema/qui-est-ophelie-bau-la-nouvelle-bombe-d-abdellatif-kechiche-24-03-2018-7626450.php |website=leparisien.fr |access-date=8 July 2020 |language=fr-FR |date=24 March 2018}}
Early life
Bau was born Ophélie Baufle in Besançon, where she was crowned Miss of this city in 2014.{{cite web |last1=Vermelin |first1=Jérôme |title=De Miss Besançon à la Croisette : qui est Ophélie Bau, l'actrice au cœur du scandale "Mektoub My Love" ? |url=https://www.lci.fr/sorties/video-de-miss-besancon-a-la-croisette-qui-est-ophelie-bau-l-actrice-au-coeur-du-scandale-mektoub-my-love-de-kechiche-2125985.html|work=LCI|date=July 3, 2019 |access-date=14 March 2021|language=fr}}
Career
Bau made her acting debut in the 2017 film Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno. While the film received mixed reviews Bau's performance was widely praised. She won the 2019 Lumières Award for Best Female Revelation for her role in the film and was nominated in the same category at the César awards.{{cite news |last1=Goodfellow |first1=Melanie |title='The Sisters Brothers' wins top prize at France's Lumière awards |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/the-sisters-brothers-wins-top-prize-at-frances-lumiere-awards/5136507.article |access-date=12 July 2020 |work=ScreenDaily |date=February 5, 2019}}
Bau's next movie was the 2019 sequel to Mektoub, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo.{{cite magazine |last1=Dovergne |first1=Constance |title=This inflammatory scene from Mektoub my love: Intermezzo is the best thing that could happen at the Cannes Festival |url=https://www.vanityfair.fr/culture/ecrans/story/cannes-2019-cette-scene-choc-de-mektoub-my-love-intermezzo-est-la-meilleure-chose-qui-pouvait-arriver-au-festival/5778 |access-date=12 July 2020 |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=May 24, 2019}} Shortly before the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 news broke that the film featured an unsimulated sex scene between her and a co-star, which the two had been pressured into filming by the film's director Abdellatif Kechiche. It was also revealed that Bau and her co-star had been intoxicated during the filming of the scene, also due to pressure from the director.{{cite web |last1=Nguyen |first1=Hanh |title='Mektoub': On-Set Witness Alleges Pressure on Actors to Perform Unsimulated Sex, Alcohol Given – Report|work=IndieWire |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/mektoub-my-love-intermezzo-unsimulated-sex-alcohol-report-abdellatif-kechiche-1202144998/|date=26 May 2019 |access-date=14 March 2021}} Bau attended the premiere of the film but walked out of the screening and did not attend a press conference for the film. In 2020 in an interview she revealed she walked away from the premiere because she had asked Kechiche to allow her to view the sex scene in private before it was screened in public, a request which he denied.{{cite web |title=Ophélie Bau s'explique enfin sur la polémique Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/ophelie-bau-s-explique-enfin-sur-la-polemique-mektoub-my-love-intermezzo-20200211 |access-date=14 March 2021|work=Le Figaro|date=February 11, 2020|language=fr}}
{{asof|2024}} Bau has appeared in another two French feature films, {{ill|Rascal (2020 film)|fr|Vaurien (film, 2020)|lt=Vaurien}} and {{ill|Fires in the Dark|fr|Des feux dans la nuit}}.
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Category:French film actresses
Category:Actresses from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Category:Most Promising Actress Lumières Award winners
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