Caroline Raynaud

Caroline Raynaud is one of France's most promising young actresses. She was born in Orléans, has worked in across the world, and is now sharing time between Paris, New York, and Toronto. She was discovered in a pub on the Champs-Élysées. While serving drinks to pay down nursing school bills, director Olivier Dahan noticed her manner and immediately cast her in La Môme (2007). She played the character Ginou, best friend of Edith Piaf, alongside Marion Cotillard. Her first performance was at the age of 10, where she played Viola in an interpretation of Twelfth Night. Since then Raynaud has shown her range in a variety of genres, deftly moving between French and English speaking roles. She was cast in La Vie en Rose (2007), Coloc-Scopie (2008) and Dictionnaire de l'amour fourbe (2008). More recently, she played Alexia, the daughter-in-law of Michèle Laroque, in The Merry Widow/Enfin Veuve (2008), directed by Isabelle Mergault; Paule Fétiveau, a nurse in the Beaune La Rolande concentrat