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"My parents never had trouble with me.
I went to school, I worked well.
I wasn't the best student but I was okay.
I was quite sage." - Virginie Ledoyen

Virginie Ledoyen is a French actress born Virginie Fernandez on November 15, 1976. Parents - Bernard, a salesman and Olga, a retaurant manager. Her grandparents are Spanish and it has been suggested that this is where she inherited her unusual eyes. Virginie's parents are divorced and her mother remarried. Virginie has a brother, Michel.

She was a print model from the age of 3 and later took on the stage name "Ledoyen" after the maiden name of her maternal grandmother, who had been a stage actress.

In 1994 when she was 17, she appeared in a movie called Cold Water where she played a troubled teen. This proved to be her big break and led to bigger things, including a 1995 film known as Single Girl which received critical acclaim. Her breakthrough came with La Fille seule (1995) for which she was nominated for a Cesar Award (France's version of the Oscar). Outside of France, her best-known role is alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach (2000).

In the fall of 2000, she signed a contract with L'Oreal, as a spokesmodel with the cosmetics company. She was futured alongside two French supermodels Laetitia Casta and Noemie Lenoir.

On 29 September 2001 she gave birth to her first child, a girl named Lila.

As of 20 September 2007 she is married to small time film director Iain Rogers.