Ludivine Sagnier

Personal context

Summary

Ludivine Sagnier is a French actor known for films including 8 Women, Swimming Pool and A Secret, as well as the series Lupin. Her work often features complex women, desire and family relationships. She directs the acting section at the free Kourtrajmé film school, which she proposed to address the lack of minority representation in acting training; she has called the work a form of political engagement. She also signed a 2024 public appeal asking France to recognize a Palestinian state and performed Vanessa Springora’s account of sexual abuse in The Consent.