Anna Mouglalis

Anna Mouglalis was still a high school student when she left the Loire-Atlantique region of her birth for Paris. After studying humanities at the Lycée Jules Ferry, she attended the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique de Paris, where she was taught by Daniel Mesguich.

After several appearances on stage, Anna Mouglalis made her first screen appearance in 1998, in Francis Girod’s Terminale. Acclaimed for her role in Chantal Akerman (La Captive), the elegant, smoky-voiced, brown-eyed brunette came to the attention of a wide public in Claude Chabrol’s Merci pour le chocolat (2000), in which she starred alongside Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc, playing a young pianist who suspects that her mentor is also her father.

Signed as the new face of Chanel, Anna Mouglalis also established herself as the muse of a generation of young French directors, appearing to great effect in such innovative projects as Philippe Grandrieux’s La Vie nouvelle (2002), Novo and Le Jeu de piste sensuel by Jean-Pierre Limosin, Arnaud Desplechin’s En jouant «Dans la compagnie des hommes» (2003) and Damien Odoul’s En attendant le déluge (2004).

In 2006, Ilan Duran Cohen cast her as Simone de Beauvoir in his Les Amants du Flore. Active outside France as well as within, Anna Mouglalis has acted for the Italian directors Roberto Ando (Le Prix du désir, 2004) and Michele Placido (Romanzo criminale, 2006) as well as returning to the Greece of her ancestors for Real Life by Panos Koutras (2004) and Kosta Natsis’ The Ikaros’ Dream (2005)

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