Suzanne Lindon
{{Short description|French actress and filmmaker (born 2000)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Suzanne Lindon
| image = Suzanne Lindon at the the 69th San Sebastian International Film Festival.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Lindon at the 69th San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2021
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|2000|4|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|filmmaker}}
| education = Lycée Henri-IV
École des Arts Décoratifs
| years_active = 2016–present
| mother = Sandrine Kiberlain
| father = Vincent Lindon
}}
Suzanne Lindon (born 13 April 2000) is a French actress and filmmaker. In 2020, she made her directorial debut with Spring Blossom, which she also wrote.
Early life
Lindon was born in Paris on 13 April 2000,{{cite magazine|title=Suzanne Lindon|url=https://www.numero.com/fr/suzanne-Lindon|magazine=Numéro|language=fr|access-date=5 April 2023}} the daughter of César-winning actress Sandrine Kiberlain and actor Vincent Lindon, recipient of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.{{cite magazine|last=Potdevin|first=Pascaline|date=8 June 2020|title=Suzanne Lindon, 20 ans et "Seize printemps"|url=https://madame.lefigaro.fr/celebrites/suzanne-lindon-fille-du-printemps-080620-181260|magazine=Madame Figaro|language=fr|access-date=5 April 2023}} Through her father, she is the great-granddaughter of Raymond Lindon, who served as the magistrate and mayor of Étretat between 1929 and 1959, and the great niece of {{ill|Jérôme Lindon|fr}}, director of Les Éditions de Minuit. Through her father, she is also the great-great-granddaughter of Fernande Citroën, who was the older sister of André Citroën and the wife of Alfred Lindon (born Abner Lindenbaum), a Jewish jeweler and modern art collector originally from Kraków, Poland.{{Cite book |last=Beaucarnot |first=Jean-Louis |title=Dictionnaire étonnant des célébrités |last2=Dumoulin |first2=Frédéric |publisher=First Éditions |year=2015 |page=42 |language=fr}} Through her paternal grandmother, Alix Dufaure, a journalist for Marie Claire,{{Cite news |last=Gurrey |first=Béatrice |date=23 March 2009 |title=Vincent Lindon, nature vive |language=fr |work=Le Monde |url=https://lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2009/03/23/vincent-lindon-nature-vive_1171521_3476.html}}{{Cite news |last=Perrin |first=Ludovic |date=9 February 2014 |title=Vincent Lindon, la conversion d'un rebelle |language=fr |work=Le Journal du Dimanche |url=http://www.lejdd.fr/Culture/Cinema/Vincent-Lindon-la-conversion-d-un-rebelle-652222}} she is also a descendant of French Prime minister Jules Dufaure and Marshal Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans.
In 2015, Lindon entered the elite Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, where she earned a baccalauréat L (littéraire) with highest honors (mention très bien).{{cite magazine|last=Champenois|first=Sabrina|date=13 April 2022|title=Entretien avec Suzanne Lindon, réalisatrice en vogue|url=https://www.vogue.fr/culture/article/suzanne-lindon-seize-printemps|magazine=Vogue France|language=fr|access-date=5 April 2023}} After a one-year preparatory course in drawing, Lindon entered the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs.
Career
Lindon was largely kept out of the spotlight of her parents, who wanted her to have a private childhood.{{cite news|last=Goodfellow|first=Melanie|date=30 September 2020|title=Suzanne Lindon talks precocious debut feature 'Spring Blossom'|url=https://www.screendaily.com/features/suzanne-lindon-talks-precocious-debut-feature-spring-blossom/5153642.article|url-status=live|work=Screen Daily|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230405050632/https://www.screendaily.com/features/suzanne-lindon-talks-precocious-debut-feature-spring-blossom/5153642.article|archive-date=5 April 2023|access-date=5 April 2023|url-access=limited}} She made her first film appearance in 2016, as an extra in the short film Bonne figure (Smile),{{cite news|last=Yakoubaly|first=Samya|date=13 January 2017|title=Sandrine Kiberlain et Vincent Lindon : Leur fille Suzanne pose pour Vogue !|url=https://www.purepeople.com/article/sandrine-kiberlain-et-vincent-lindon-leur-fille-suzanne-pose-pour-vogue_a218498/1|newspaper=Purepeople|language=fr|access-date=5 April 2023}} directed by her mother and starring Chiara Mastroianni as a famous actress who attends a cocktail party held in her honour.{{cite news|last=Goodfellow|first=Melanie|date=25 November 2020|title=France TV boards Sandrine Kiberlain's 'A Radiant Girl', releases first image (exclusive)|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/france-tv-boards-sandrine-kiberlains-a-radiant-girl-releases-first-image-exclusive/5155241.article|url-status=live|work=Screen Daily|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230405051602/https://www.screendaily.com/news/france-tv-boards-sandrine-kiberlains-a-radiant-girl-releases-first-image-exclusive/5155241.article|archive-date=5 April 2023|access-date=5 April 2023|url-access=limited}} The film was presented as one of the closing films of Critics' Week at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite news|last=Tartaglione|first=Nancy|date=18 April 2016|title=Cannes: Critics' Week 2016 Lineup; Chloe Sevigny-Helmed Short To Close Section|url=https://deadline.com/2016/04/critics-week-2016-lineup-full-list-cannes-film-festival-1201739395/|work=Deadline|access-date=5 April 2023}}
In 2020, Suzanne Lindon directed her first feature film, Spring Blossom (Seize Printemps), in which she starred in the lead role opposite Arnaud Valois. Selected in the First Features section of the official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, the film was however not presented at Cannes after the festival was cancelled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite news|last=Sharf|first=Zack|date=3 June 2020|title=Cannes Announces 2020 Official Lineup: 'French Dispatch,' 'Ammonite,' New McQueen and Ghibli|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/cannes-2020-lineup-films-competiton-1202235061/|work=IndieWire|access-date=27 February 2023}} The film tells the story of a bored 16-year-old French teenager who passes in front of the same theatre each day and comes to meet there a 35-year-old actor (played by Valois) for whom she falls head over heels in love. Lindon wrote the screenplay when she was 15, in the summer before she entered Lycée Henri-IV. She shot the film immediately after completing her baccalaureate exams at the age of 18. She was motivated to prove herself as an actress on her own merit. The soundtrack of the film, which features original music by Vincent Delerm, includes a title track sung by Lindon.{{cite web|url=https://filmmusicreporter.com/2021/06/15/spring-blossom-seize-printemps-soundtrack-ep-to-be-released/|title='Spring Blossom' ('Seize printemps') Soundtrack EP to Be Released|date=15 June 2021|website=Film Music Reporter|access-date=5 April 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/discreet-16-on-suzanne-lindons-spring-blossom/|title=Discreet 16: On Suzanne Lindon's "Spring Blossom"|date=25 October 2021|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=5 April 2023}} The film received praise from critics.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spring_blossom|title=Spring Blossom (2020)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|date=21 May 2021 |publisher=Fandango|access-date=5 April 2023}}
In 2022, she joined the cast of season 2 of the drama television series In Therapy (En thérapie), alongside Frédéric Pierrot, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jacques Weber, and Eye Haïdara.{{cite news|last=Balle|first=Catherine|date=14 April 2022|title=En Thérapie, saison 2 : Suzanne Lindon assume son «désir profond» d'être comédienne et crève l'écran|url=https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/series/en-therapie-saison-2-suzanne-lindon-assume-son-desir-profond-detre-comedienne-et-creve-lecran-14-04-2022-RTPXJBO5XBALBIYBOVEF2TKHQI.php|url-status=live|newspaper=Le Parisien|language=fr|archive-url=https://archive.today/20221006173929/https://www.leparisien.fr/amp/culture-loisirs/series/en-therapie-saison-2-suzanne-lindon-assume-son-desir-profond-detre-comedienne-et-creve-lecran-14-04-2022-RTPXJBO5XBALBIYBOVEF2TKHQI.php|archive-date=6 October 2022|access-date=5 April 2023|url-access=subscription}} Lindon starred in the role of Lydia, a young architecture student with cancer who stubbornly refuses treatment. Lindon's seven episodes were directed by the César-winning director Arnaud Desplechin.{{cite news|last=Fournier|first=Audrey|date=7 April 2022|title=En thérapie : Suzanne Lindon sous l'œil d'Arnaud Desplechin|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2022/04/07/en-therapie-suzanne-lindon-sous-l-il-d-arnaud-desplechin_6121090_3246.html|newspaper=Le Monde|language=fr|access-date=5 April 2023|url-access=subscription}}
Alongside her acting career, Lindon has been active in fashion. In 2017, while she was still a high school student, the magazine Vogue Italia devoted several pages to her where she was interviewed and featured in a series of photographs taken by Paolo Roversi. In 2020, when she was 20 years old, the designer Hedi Slimane chose her as the face of the fashion house Celine, of which he was the artistic director, seduced by her androgynous appearance and "eminently Parisian style".
Filmography
=Film=
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| 2016
| Bonne figure | | Short film |
| 2021
| Suzanne | Also director and writer |
| 2022
| The Waitress | |
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| style="background:#FFFFCC;" |La Venue de l'avenir {{dagger}}{{cite web|url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/463156/|title=The shoot for Cédric Klapisch's La venue de l'avenir enters the home stretch|last=Lemercier|first=Fabien|date=5 June 2024|website=Cineuropa|access-date=18 August 2024}} | Adèle | Post-production |
=Television=
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| scope="col"|Year
!scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| 2022
| Lydia | 7 episodes |
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Category:21st-century French actresses
Category:Film directors from Paris
Category:French film actresses
Category:French television actresses
Category:French women film directors
Category:Lycée Henri-IV alumni
Category:École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs alumni