Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 21, 1999
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
11 titles
Mélusine Mayance
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Ça va passer... mais quand ?
Paola
Brotherhood of Tears
Juliette Chevalier
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Lisbeth
The Brats
Mimi Zozo
Miroir mon amour
Blanche Neige enfant
Bouquet final
Charlotte
The Skin of Sorrow
La Mediante
Sarah's Key
Sarah Starzynski, child
A Suspension of Innocence
Julie
Les Associés
Émilie
Ricky
Lisa