Vahina Giocante
{{short description|French actress (born 1981)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|06|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Orléans, France
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Vahina Giocante (born 30 June 1981) is a French actress.
Career
As Marie in Marie Baie des Anges (1997), she is among a group of young wanderers who become enmeshed in love, hate, and violence on the French Riviera.
In 1999 she appeared in No Scandal ({{langx|fr|link=no|Pas de scandale}}) directed by Benoît Jacquot.{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/180689/Pas-de-Scandale/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118124852/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/180689/Pas-de-scandale/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 November 2007 |title=NY Times: No Scandal |access-date=29 May 2010 | first=Stephen |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author-link=Stephen Holden |date=2007 | last=Holden}}
In the 2004 film directed by Ziad Doueiri, Lila Says (French title: Lila dit ça), Giocante portrays a teenager who resides with her aunt in a rough neighborhood in Marseille. Chief film critic for The New York Times A.O. Scott compared her to Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman, being "a femme more vital than fatale". He further wrote "Ms. Giocante's intoxicating mixture of gamine innocence and womanly knowingness is almost too much for the movie but her charisma{{nbsp}}... give it a mood that is at once breathlessly romantic and cannily down to earth."[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/movies/teenage-coquetry-and-seduction-across-a-deep-divide.html "Teenage Coquetry and Seduction, Across a Deep Divide"]. "FILM REVIEW", The New York Times, 24 June 2005
In 2009 she appeared in Bellamy, the last film of celebrated French director Claude Chabrol.[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/movies/29inspect.html?_r=0 "A Detective Who Solves Crimes for a Living, and as a Pastime"]. "FILM REVIEW", The New York Times, 28 October 2010
Personal life
Vahina Giocante is of half Corsican and half Andalusian origin. She lived in Corsica until the age of 10. Born in Orléans, she went to school at the Lycée Paul-Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence. {{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
In February 2024, Giocante accused director Benoit Jacquot of sexually abusing her.{{cite news|last1=de Foucher|first1=Lorraine|last2=Lefilliâtre|first2=Jérôme|date=8 February 2024|title=Under the guise of cinema, director Benoît Jacquot set up a predatory system|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/02/08/under-the-guise-of-cinema-director-benoit-jacquot-set-up-a-predatory-system_6506274_7.html|newspaper=Le Monde|language=fr|access-date=4 July 2024}}
Selected filmography
- SKAM France (2021) – Céline Prigent
- Mata Hari (2017) – Mata Hari
- Paradise Cruise (2013) – Dora
- Un prince (presque) charmant (2013) – Marie
- 30 Beats (2011) – Kim
- La blonde aux seins nus (2010)
- Trader Games (Original title: Krach (2010)
- Le Premier Cercle (2009) – Elodie
- Bellamy (2009) – Nadia Sancho
- Secret Défense (2008) – (Diane / Lisa)
- ''99 Francs (2007) – Sophie
- A Curtain Raiser (2006) – Rosette
- U (2006) – (voice)
- Riviera (2005) – Stella
- Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 (2005) (TV) – Marie-Hélène
- Lila dit ça ("Lila Says") (2004) – Lila
- Cadeau d'Éléna, Le ("Elena's Gift") (2004) – Marie
- Maigret: Les petits cochons sans queue (2004) (TV) – Germaine Leblanc
- Blueberry: L'expérience secrète ("Renegade") (2004) – Madeleine
- Intermittenze del cuore, Le (2003) – young Fiametta
- Soldats de Salamine ("Soldiers of Salamina") (2003) – assistante sociale à Dijon
- Vivante ("Alive") (2002) – Claire
- "Algérie des chimères, L'" (2001) (mini) TV Series – Jeanne 20 ans
- Bella ciao (2001) – Bianca
- Fantômes de Louba, Les (2001) – Jeannie as a teenager
- Libertin, Le ("The Libertine") (2000) – Angélique Diderot
- Pas de scandale ("Keep It Quiet" / "No Scandal") (1999) – Stéphanie
- Stolen Life (1998) – Sigga
- Marie Baie des Anges ("Angel Sharks" / "Marie from the Bay of Angels") (1997) – Marie
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|id=0320209|name=Vahina Giocante}}
- [http://vahinagiocante.free.fr/ Unofficial site on Vahina Giocante] {{in lang|fr}}
- [http://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/vahina_giocante_confidences_d_une_actrice_en_mutation_151326 Vahina Giocante: confidences of a changing actress] {{in lang|fr}}
- [http://www.elle.fr/Personnalites/Vahina-Giocante Profile in Elle Magazine] {{in lang|fr}}
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Category:French film actresses
Category:French television actresses