Chiara Mastroianni

Born: May 28 1972
Where: Paris, France

Although the actress has cropped up in English language films such as Pret A Porter and Hotel, she has mainly confined herself to French roles.

The daughter of actors Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, she made her feature debut in an uncredited role in A nous deux in 1979.

She was nominated for a Cesar - the French Oscar - for most promising actress in the role of Anne in Ma saison preferee in 1993.

The following year she played Sophie Choiset in Robert Altman's ensemble fashion comedy Pret A Porter alongside her father and Sophia Loren.

Subsequent appearances included the lame melodrama All Men Are Mortal with Stephen Rea and and the romantic thriller Journal of a Seducer in 1996.

She starred again with her father taking multiple roles in Raul Ruiz's comedy Three Lives and only one Death and the comedy drama My Sex Life.

In 1997 she starred in Greg Arraki's American comedy Nowhere with James Duval and also appeared in Ruiz's Time Regained with John Malkovich and her mother Deneuve.

Mike Figgis cast her in the 2001 comedy Hotel with Saffron Burrows and Max Beesley and she starred as Carlotta in Delpine Gleize's Carnages.

Offscreen, she had a long relationship with the Oscar-winning actor Benicio Del Toro.