Maïwenn

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Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco, known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker. Maïwenn starred in several films as a child, then teen, actress—notably as "Elle, as a child" (the child version of the lead role played by Isabelle Adjani) in the 1983 hit film L'été meurtrier (One Deadly Summer). Following her marriage to director Luc Besson and the birth of their daughter in 1993, Maïwenn interrupted her career for several years. During this period, she only appeared in a supporting part in Besson's Léon (1994), in which she was credited as Ouin-Ouin. She also directed the film's making-of. Perhaps Maïwenn's most internationally-seen film role was her appearance as the alien Diva Plavalaguna in Besson's The Fifth Element (1997). After she and Besson divorced, Maïwenn returned to France. She performed as a stand-up comedian in an autobiographical one-woman-show, and...

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Léon: The ProfessionalMovie • 1994The Fifth ElementMovie • 1997High TensionMovie • 2003Jeanne du BarryMovie • 2023TralalaMovie • 2021Breaking PointMovie • 2024Perfect NannyMovie • 2019My KingMovie • 2015One Deadly SummerMovie • 1983NoxSeries • 2018PolisseMovie • 2011Love Is the Perfect CrimeMovie • 2013DNAMovie • 2020The Price of SuccessMovie • 2017All About ActressesMovie • 2009Neneh SuperstarMovie • 2023All InclusiveMovie • 2019Our TiesMovie • 2022Pardonnez-moiMovie • 2006Pirate TVMovie • 2012