Laetitia Casta

Laetitia Marie Laure Casta (French: [lɛtisja kasta]; born 11 May 1978)[5] is a French actress and model.

Laetitia Casta
Casta in 2016
Born	Laetitia Marie Laure Casta (1978-05-11) 11 May 1978 Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Actress model
Years active	1993–present
Spouse(s)	Louis Garrel ( m. 2017)
Children	3
Modeling information
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Hair color	Brown[2]
Eye color	Blue[3]
Agency	DNA Model Management (New York) VIVA Model Management (Paris, London, Barcelona)[4]
Website	Laetitia-Casta.fr

Casta became a "GUESS? Girl" in 1993 and gained further recognition as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1998 to 2000 and as a spokesperson for cosmetics company L'Oréal. She has appeared on over 100 covers of such popular magazines as Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Elle and Glamour, and has modeled for designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Roberto Cavalli, Lolita Lempicka, and Vivienne Westwood.

Casta became an actress, appearing in the films Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010), in which she portrayed sex symbol Brigitte Bardot, Face (2009) and The Blue Bicycle (2000), as well as the play Ondine at the theatre Antoine.

Early life

Laetitia Casta was born in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France. Her mother, Line Blin, is from Normandy. Her father, Dominique Casta, is from Corsica. Casta has an older brother, Jean-Baptiste, and a younger sister, Marie-Ange. She spent her childhood in Normandy and Corsica.[6]

Career

Casta's modeling career reportedly began when she was discovered by the photographer Frederic Cresseaux,[7] during a family holiday in her father's native Corsica, at age 15.[8] After her unexpected registration by Jeeby, Casta was elected Miss Lumio 93.[9]

Casta has been the L'Oréal Paris brand ambassador since 1998.[10] She has been featured in Guess? Jeans, Tommy Hilfiger, Miu Miu, Pepe Jeans, Alberta Ferretti and XOXO ad campaigns. Casta has appeared on more than 100 magazine covers including Victoria's Secret catalogs, Harper's Bazaar,[11] ELLE and Vogue magazines. She walked down the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000. Casta was one of the company's signature Victoria' Secret Angels from 1998 to 2000. She claims that her career with Victoria's Secret ended because she was "too much of [a] rebel".[12] She also appeared in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue three consecutive times, Rolling Stone, as well as the Pirelli Calendar 1999 by Herb Ritts and 2000 by Annie Leibovitz.

In 1999, Casta was ranked first in a national survey ordered by the French Mayors' Association to decide who should be the new model for the bust of Marianne, an allegorical symbol of the French Republic, which stands inside every French town hall.[13]

Casta became the focus of a controversy[14] when, after being selected to be Marianne, newspapers in Britain and France[15] reported that she had relocated to London where taxes on high earners are lower. Casta's father said she went to London for professional reasons; on a TV show, she also said that she rented a flat in London to be near her boyfriend.[16] The French minister of the interior spoke about Casta on the radio;[17][18] comparing the advantages of living in France with regard to the drawbacks of London[19] after political opponents used Casta's relocation to London as an opportunity to criticise the government.[20][21]

She is the face of fragrances Chanel's Allure, Givenchy's Forbidden flower, Cacharel's Promise, Bulgari's BLV II, Ralph Lauren's Notorious, and on 15 June 2012 D&G's Pour Femme shot in Erice by Mario Testino.[22] The Parisians could follow her Adventures in the Galeries Lafayette by Jean-Paul Goude.[23] For Christmas 2011, Peter Lindbergh shot True Love, the very thought of Casta at the summit of Manhattan and between the snowy lions of marble of the New York Public Library for Tiffany & Co.[24] On 10 March 2010, in Paris, she opened the Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2010 fashion show.[25] On 27 September 2010, she closed the Roberto Cavalli SS 2011 fashion show in Milan.[26]

Her first role was as Falbala in Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar directed by Claude Zidi, a live-action adaptation of the comic book Asterix, in which Obelix, portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, plays Casta's love interest.[27] Casta appeared in Les Ames Fortes, a dramatic film directed by Raul Ruiz.[28] Her interpretation of Brigitte Bardot in the movie Gainsbourg (Vie heroique) resulted in her Cesar Award nomination. Casta served as a jury member at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in 2012.[29]

Political involvement

On 6 April 2008, Casta demonstrated in a White March of nonviolent protest to ask for the immediate release of Ingrid Betancourt, presidential candidate kidnapped since 2002 by the FARC.[30] On 30 April 2002, she attended the demonstration Vive la République after the first round election of the 2002 presidential election.[31]

She was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador on 9 December 2016, committed to help the 250 million children living in conflict areas.[32]

Personal life

On 19 October 2001, Casta gave birth to her daughter Sahteene, whose father is the photographer Stephane Sednaoui. Casta was engaged to Italian actor Stefano Accorsi. The couple has two children: a son named Orlando, born on 21 September 2006, and a daughter named Athena, born on 29 August 2009.[33] In June 2017, Casta married her boyfriend of two years, French actor Louis Garrel.[34]

Filmography

Director, screenwriter, producer

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Box office
2016	En Moi	Director, Writer, Producer	Cannes Critics' Week closing short[35]

Actress

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1999	Asterix et Obelix contre Cesar (Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar)	Falbala	Claude Zidi
2000	La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle)	Lea Delmas	Thierry Binisti	TV film for France2
	Gitano	Lucia Junco	Manuel Palacios
2001	Les ames fortes (Savage Souls)	Therese	Raoul Ruiz
2002	Rue des plaisirs (Love Street)	Marion	Patrice Leconte	Performs on the soundtrack
2003	Errance (Wandering)	Lou	Damien Odoul
2004	Luisa Sanfelice	Luisa Sanfelice	Paolo Taviani Vittorio Taviani	TV film for France2, RAI Uno
2006	Le grand appartement (The Big Apartment)	Francesca Cigalone	Pascal Thomas
	La Deraison du Louvre (The Irrationality of the Louvre)	The young woman	Ange Leccia	Short film without dialog shot in the Louvre museum[36] for which Casta was for the first time in cover of Les Cahiers du Cinema.[37][38]
	Nymphea (Nymphaea)	The naiad	Ange Leccia	Short film
2007	Le Petit Monde de Charlotte (Charlotte's Web)	Charlotte A. Cavatica	Gary Winick	Voice in the French-language dub.
2008	Nes en 68 (Born in 68)	Catherine	Olivier Ducastel Jacques Martineau	Cabourg: Golden Swann for Best Actress
	La jeune fille et les loups (The Maiden and the Wolves)	Angele Amblard	Gilles Legrand
2009	Visage (Face) ? (in Chinese)	Salome	Tsai Ming-Liang
	Fleurs dans le miroir, lune dans l'eau (Flowers in the mirror, moon in the water)	herself, Salome	Francois Lunel
2010	Gainsbourg (Vie heroique) (Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life)	Brigitte Bardot	Joann Sfar	Nominated for the Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actress Performs Gainsbourg's songs on the soundtrack
2011	La nouvelle guerre des boutons (The War of the Buttons)	Simone	Christophe Barratier
	Derriere les murs (Behind the Walls)	Suzanne	Julien Lacombe Pascal Sid
	Островът (Ostrovat) (The Island)	Sophie	Kamen Kalev	First film with English dialogue
	Rio	Perla (Jewel)	Carlos Saldanha
2012	Arbitrage	Julie Cote	Nicholas Jarecki	First American film
	Do Not Disturb	Anna	Yvan Attal
2013	Une histoire d'amour[29] (Tied)	The young woman	Helene Fillieres
2014	Rio 2	Perla (Jewel)	Carlos Saldanha	First sequel
	A Woman as a Friend	Claudia	Giovanni Veronesi
	Des lendemains qui chantent	Noemie Archambault	Nicolas Castro
	Sous les jupes des filles	Agathe	Audrey Dana
2018	A Faithful Man	Marianne	Louis Garrel	Completed
2019	Le Milieu de l'horizon	Nicole	Delphine Lehericey

Music videos

Year	Singer	Song	Director
2010	Rihanna	Te Amo	Anthony Mandler
1999	Chris Isaak	Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing	Herb Ritts
1998	I Muvrini Sting	Terre d'Oru(in English, Corsican, and Greek)	Stefano Salvati

DVD and Blu-ray

Year	Title	Distribution	Language	Region	Notes
2007	Laetitia Casta	StudioCanal	French	2	with Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Berge, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Dominique Issermann, Sylvie Lancrenon, Jamel Debbouze, Omar Sy & Fred Testot, Frederic Lopez, Jean-Paul Goude, Jacques Weber, Claude Zidi

Theatre

Year	Play	Role	Playwright	Stage director	Theatre	City	Review
2017	Scenes from a Marriage	Marianne	Ingmar Bergman	Safy Nebbou	Théâtre de l'Œuvre	Paris 9th	L'Express[39]
2008	Elle t'attend (She is waiting for you)	Anna[40]	Florian Zeller	Florian Zeller	Théâtre de la Madeleine	Paris 8th	Madame Figaro[41]
2005 2004	Ondine	Ondine[40]	Jean Giraudoux	Jacques Weber	Tour in regions Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau	Ludwigshafen[42] Paris 10th	L'Humanité[43]

Humanitarian action

Year	Association	Comment
2010	Porteurs d'Eau (in French)	Water-carrier is an initiative of France Libertes - Danielle-Mitterrand foundation (in French)
2006	Rose Marie Claire (in French)	Casta among Claire Chazal, Isabelle Adjani, Axelle Red, Monica Bellucci and Tina Kieffer with the Rose Marie Claire (in French) are shot by Jeff Manzetti for the association Toutes a l'ecole (in French)
2005	Action Innocence	She belongs to the Committee of support of Action Innocence[44] to protect the children from the dangers of the Internet.
2004	Action Contre la Faim	Casta drew a winged blue heart on a plate for the bidding of 19 November 2004 to help Action against Hunger
2002	Occi, paese rinascitu (in Corsican)	In the headquarters of the association Occi recovered village at the Caffe di a Mossa of Lumio in Corsica, Casta helped to reconstruct the old chapel of Annunziata in the abandoned village of Occi.[45] Watch the Occi video on YouTube by official Korsika.fr

Awards and recognition

Year	Award	By	Result
2012	Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres(in French) (Knight in Order of Arts and of Letters)	France Minister of Culture and of Communication
2011	Nominated for the Cesar Award of the Best Supporting Actress as Brigitte Bardot in Gainsbourg (Vie heroique)	Cesar Awards	Nominated
2008	Golden Swann of the Best Actress as Catherine in Born in 68	Cabourg Film Festival (in French)	Won
2001	Ranked No. 1 Top 50 Most Beautiful Women[46]	Askmen.com
1999	Marianne for the 21st century[13]	82nd congress of AMF, the French Mayors Association	Won

Books

• Casta, Laetitia (24 November 1999). Assouline (ed.). Laetitia Casta (in French). ISBN 978-2-84323-179-7.

See also

References

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3. https://www.dnamodels.com/div/women-main-board/model/laetitia-casta2/p/5867/c/-1/?sid=68622/%5B%5D
4. https://models.com/models/laetitia-casta
5. FMD profile. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
6. Laetitia Casta, Assouline 1999, p. 12.
7. Laetitia Casta's biography by Vogue Paris.
8. Laetitia Casta, Assouline 1999, p. 15.
9. Laetitia Casta Official: Miss Lumio 93 Archived 19 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in French).
10. L'Oréal Paris Archived 5 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Laetitia Casta's biography.
11. Harper's Bazaar uk Cover October 2012 by Sebastian Faena Hairstyle by Nicolas Jurnjack "Laetitia Casta", models.com.
12. Laetitia Casta: The supermodel who rebelled against Victoria Secret Archived 30 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
13. "The Marianne". Consulate General of France in New York. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
14. La fugue Casta, affaire d'Etat (in French), Le Soir, 4 April 2000.
15. "Quand Marianne s'exile a Londres" Archived 22 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in French), Le Point, 31 March 2000.
16. Marianne: impots ou intox a la Une (in French), Libération, 6 April 2000.
17. "Au revoir, les taxes" Archived 2 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Salon, 17 April 2000.
18. "Zut Alors! A National Treasure Flirts With Heresy", The New York Times, 9 April 2000.
19. "France galled by model move", BBC News, 3 April 2000.
20. "Symbol of France prefers London", The New Zealand Herald, 5 April 2000, also in Die Welt (in German) on 10 April 2000 quoting the Daily Mail′s title Marianne Unfaithful.
21. "The disloyalty of Marianne", The Economist, 6 April 2000.
22. Laetitia Casta: "Dolce & Gabbana's latest fragrance muse" Archived 18 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Swide, 15 June 2012.
23. Jean-Paul Goude Archived 6 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine official: Work > Advertising > Photography.
24. Laetitia Casta's campaigns Archived 14 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Alla Rosa Production.
25. Mower, Sarah (10 March 2010). Style, Louis Vuitton, Fall 2010, Paris.
26. Style, Roberto Cavalli Spring Summer 2011 RTW, Milan, 27 September 2010.
27. Elley, Derek (31 January 1999). "Asterix & Obelix Vs. Caesar", Variety.
28. Laetitia Casta cuts teeth on Serious Film International Herald Tribune, 29 May 2001.
29. "Marina Abramovic, Laetitia Casta, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Ari Folman, Matteo Garrone, Ursula Meier, Samantha Morton, Pablo Trapero to form the Venezia 69 International Jury chaired by Michael Mann". Venice Film Festival. 13 July 2012. Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
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31. Demonstration Vive la Republique Archived 23 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in French), France 3 TV news 19|20 by INA, 30 April 2002.
32. Morris, Christopher (8 December 2016). "Laetitia Casta, nouvelle ambassadrice UNICEF : 'Protégeons les enfants de la guerre !'" [Laetitia Casta, new UNICEF ambassador: "Let us protect the children of war!"] (in French). UNICEF. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
33. Sei mamma? Ti licenziano Archived 17 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian) (You are mother? You are fired), Style, 28 April 2009.
34. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
35. Richford, Rhonda (18 April 2016). "Cannes: Critics' Week Unveils Lineup, Including Closing Film From Chloe Sevigny". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
36. Danesi, Fabien. Review about The Folly of the Louvre, Films by The Louvre.
37. Frodon, Jean Michel (April 2006). "The Dream of Light". Les Cahiers du Cinema Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, issue 611.
38. Frederic Sanchez: English > Press > Les Cahiers du Cinema, April 2006.
39. Laetitia Casta: "La célébrité a parfois du bon, c'est un véhicule" (in French), L'Express, 2 February 2017.
40. Laetitia Casta Officiel: Theatre Archived 20 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in French).
41. Laetitia Casta: "Quand on est tendre, on est soi" (in French), Madame Figaro, 23 August 2008.
42. "Laetitia Casta begeisterte als Wassernixe in Ludwigshafen" (in German), Hamburger Morgenpost, 30 November 2005.
43. Jean-Pierre Leonardini, "Devine qui vient ondiner"(in French), L'Humanité, 27 September 2004.
44. L'Oréal about the associations Archived 10 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine of Action Innocence and of Sebastien Proyart.
45. L'oeil de la Balagne Archived 8 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in French), L'Express, 20 June 2007.
46. "AskMen.com - Laetitia Casta former Number 1". Au.askmen.com. Retrieved 1 August 2011.

Further reading

• Issermann, Dominique (January 2012). Xavier Barral (ed.). Laetitia Casta (in French). ISBN 978-2-36511-004-4. Archived from the original on 19 May 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
• Sapin, Mathieu (20 January 2010). Delcourt (ed.). Feuille de chou 1. Journal d'un tournage (in French). ISBN 978-2-7560-1857-7. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
• Marciano, Paul (1 July 2002). A Second Decade of Guess Images: 1991-2001. Gingko Press. ISBN 978-0-9636728-1-0.
• Tremolet, Laurence (March 2002). Rezina, Collectionneur (ed.). Dans l'ombre des ames fortes. ISBN 978-2-909450-87-2.
• Reilly, Rick; Steven, Hoffman (28 September 2001). Sports Illustrated: Knockouts, Five Decades of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Photography. Sports Illustrated. ISBN 978-1-929049-47-9.
• Di Caro, Roberto; Heath, Christopher (1 September 1999). Callaway (ed.). Laetitia Casta. Viking Studio. ISBN 978-0-67088-819-1.

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Laetitia Casta on IMDb
• Laetitia Casta at Fashion Model Directory