Charlotte Le Bon

At 38 years old, Charlotte Le Bon has this physical status:

Charlotte Le Bon (born 4 September 1986) is a Canadian actress and artist, formerly a model and television presenter.

She is known for her work in the Canal+ talk show Le Grand Journal, and the films Yves Saint Laurent, The Hundred-Foot Journey, and The Walk.

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Life and career

Le Bon was born in 1986 in Montreal, to Brigitte Paquette and Richard Le Bon. Frank Schorpion, her mother and her stepfather, are both actors. She began modelling in the visual arts and left Canada at 16 years old and then moved to Asia when she first arrived. She later settled in Paris after brief stints in Tokyo and New York City. "I was a model for eight years and really disliked it," she said. She then began ad for Si Lolita, Carte Noire, and Garnier Fructis.

Le Bon appeared on Le Grand Journal, a news- and pop culture talk show on Le Grand Journal, where she did daily weather reports in the form of comedy skits she wrote herself soon after. Although the network wanted her back for a second season, she turned down the offer in favour of embarking on a film career.

Le Bon's first film role was in the French comedy Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia. She appeared in Mood Indigo and The Marchers in 2013, and in 2014 she appeared as Yves Saint Laurent's muse Victoire Doutreleau in the biographical film Yves Saint Laurent, receiving a César Award nomination.

Le Bon's debut in an English-language film was in The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), a romantic comedy directed by Lasse Hallström in which she plays a chef-in-training at a posh upscale French restaurant alongside Helen Mirren. In The Walk, a film directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on Philippe Petit's well-known tightrope walk in 1974, Le Bon was cast with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Joy dubbed her in both the French and Quebec French dubs of Pixar's Inside Out in 2015.

In 2016, she appeared in six films. In a story based on events that occurred during the Armenian Genocide, the Promise matched her with Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac. She appeared in the science fiction film Realtive, the World War II film Anthropoid, and the action film Bastille Day with Idris Elba. She also maintained her French fame by appearing in two French films, Arctic Heart and Iris, where she reunited with director Jalil Lespert.

Le Bon's debut with the short film Judith Hotel, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, was her first directorial debut. In the Director's Fortnight Film Festival's first night, her feature film directorial debut Falcon Lake, based on Bastien Vivès' graphic novel Une sur, premiered. At the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, it was also on display. LeBon received the award for Emerging Canadian Director at the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival for her film work on Falcon Lake.

Le Bon, who studied in visual arts, has regularly pursued a parallel career as an illustrator and street artist. She started as an artist for Spank, an online magazine created by her on-air coworker at Canal+ Raphal Cioffi, who hired her to do drawings to accompany certain articles. She was collaborating with French artist JR in coordinating the Inside Out Project, in which 2500 black & white portraits were published in Lyon on December 2, 2013, as part of the 30th anniversary of the March for Equality and Against Racism in 2011. She later developed a patchwork of street art by creating works that encourage audience interaction, such as moons on strings that can be unhooked by passers-by (on the streets of Paris and in New York City's Rikers Island jail). At Anne-Dominique Toussaint's Galerie Cinéma in Paris in September 2016, she announced her return to illustration with an exhibition titled "One Bedroom Hotel on the Moon." In a New York Times interview, she explained that this exhibit represents the mixing of melancholy and a hope: "the expression of a poetic loneliness."

Le Bon, a French and English speaker, lives in Paris and is bilingual in French and English.

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