Esther Garrel

Esther Garrel is a French actress known for her work in Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name (2017) and Lover for a Day (2017), which premiered at 2017 Cannes Film Festival. She is the youngest member of a family long associated with French cinema, as she is granddaughter of actor Maurice Garrel, daughter of director Philippe Garrel and actress/director Brigitte Sy and sister of actor Louis Garrel. Esther made her first appearance on screen at the age of eight in a short film by Gérard Courant (Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice (1999)). In 2008, French filmmaker Christophe Honoré cast her with her first role in "The Beautiful Person (2008)," a modernized adaptation of "La Princesse de Clèves". She starred in "The Apollonide," where she played a prostitute, and "17 Girls (2011)," where she played a pregnant teenager, both premiered at 2011 Cannes Film Festival. With some of the top French actors of her generation, she starred in the short film "Après Suzanne (2016)", selected for Official