Virginie Ledoyen began her career young, very young. "I began as a baby," she explains. "A friend of my mum was doing an advert, they needed a baby, I was there, and voilà! I loved it. It sort of replaced kindergarten." She went on to be a child model for Lacoste, and appeared in TV ads for Buitoni and Air Inter.
So, it was after years of experience that, at the age of seven, she went to drama school, l'Ecole du Spectacle in Paris. She appeared in her first film, Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan, when she was ten. Since, she has appeared in no less than 10 films, including 1995's critically acclaimed La fille suele, which will likely be the film that begins her on the road international fame. Her performance garnered her her third Most Promising Actress César (the other two were for 1994's Les marmottes and 1995's L'eau froide).
