Born in Paris, she pursued ballet during her school years before debuting on screen at sixteen with Michel Lang's L'hôtel de la plage (1978). Her breakthrough arrived when she embodied the titular assassin in Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita, a role that earned her the César for Best Actress and the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress in 1991. The international exposure led her to appear in th…
