Ledoyen's latest film, Shake and Bake ("Mahjong"), directed in Taiwan by Edward Yang, premiered at 1996's Berlin Film Festival.  She plays Marthe, a Parisian who travels to Taipei to find her boyfriend Markus.  She falls in instead with a gang led by Red Fish, and her presence threatens to upset the stability of the group.  She'll appear next in Gérard Krawczyk's Play-Back, about the rivalry between two female rock musicians.

Already, Ledoyen is being compared to the young Adjani, who, at Ledoyen's age, was in turn being compared to the legendary Jean Moreau.  She shares with Adjani a critical eye for the right roles, and an innate love of acting.  "For me," she has said, "being an actress is as natural as breathing." 

Ledoyen admires the work of Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire and Juliette Lewis, and is close friends with fellow French actress Marie Gillain.  She smokes a pack and a half of Marlboros a day, prefers to wear no make-up and says that her favorite cure for depression is "a pot of Nutella and the TV."  She likes sixties rock, particularly The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.  Her favorite color is black.

-Michael St Aubyn