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Virginie Ledoyen is a French actress born Virginie Fernandez on November 15, 1976[1] (alternate sources list birthyear as 1974[2][3]).
She was a print model from the age of 2 and later took on the stage name "Ledoyen" after the maiden name of her maternal grandmother, who had been a stage actress.
Her breakthrough came with La Fille seule (1995) for which she was nominated for a César Award. Outside of France, her best-known role is alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach (2000). Ledoyen is also somewhat infamous for a full-frontal nude scene in Le Voleur d'enfants (1991) when she was just 14. In the fall of 2000, she signed a contract with L'Oréal, as a spokesmodel with the cosmetics company. She was featured alongside two supermodels Laetitia Casta and Noémie Lenoir.
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