List of French child actors

This is a list of child actors from France. Films and/or television series they appeared in are mentioned only if they were still a child at the time of filming.

Current child actors (under the age of eighteen) are indicated by boldface.

Contents:

* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

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* Isabelle Adjani (born 1955)
* Le Petit bougnat (1970)
* Faustine et le bel été (1972)
* L'école des femmes (1973)

## B

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* Christophe Bourseiller (born 1957)
* War of the Buttons (1962)
* Une Femme Mariée (1964)
* Two or Three Things I Know About Her... (1967)
* Weekend (1967)

## C

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* Timothée Chalamet (born 1995)
* Law & Order (1 episode, 2009)
* Loving Leah (2009)
* Royal Pains (4 episodes, 2012)
* Homeland (8 episodes, 2012)
* François Civil (born 1990)
* Le cactus (2005)
* Louis la brocante (1 episode, 2006)
* Trop la Classe (2006)
* Autopsy (2007)
* Molière (2007)
* Daddy Cool (2008)
* Dying or Feeling Better (2008)
* Sur ta joue ennemie (2008)
* Jean Claudio (1927–1992)
* Nostalgie (1938)
* Rasputin (1938)
* Boys' School (1938)
* Crossroads (1938)
* The Phantom Carriage (1939)
* L'enfer des anges (1941)
* Andorra ou les Hommes d'airain (1942)
* The Heart of a Nation (1943)
* Les Cadets de l'océan (1945)
* Marion Cotillard (born 1975)
* Le monde des tout-petits (1982)[1][2]
* Lucie (1983)[3]
* Étude sur le Mouvement (1993)
* Highlander (2 episodes, 1993)[4]
* Lola Créton (born 1993)
* Imago (2004)
* Louis Page (1 episode, 2007)
* Room of Death (2007)
* Trouble at Timpetill (2008)
* Bluebeard (2009)
* Malban (2009)
* En Ville (2011)
* Goodbye First Love (2011)

## D

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* René Dary (1905-1974)
* Le Louis de vingt francs (short film, 1910)
* Bébé (short film series, 1910-1913)
* Le Bracelet de la marquise (short film, 1911)
* La Cassette de l'émigrée (short film, 1912)
* Le Petit Poucet (short film, 1912)
* Les Ananas (short film, 1913)

* Catherine Demongeot (born 1948)
* Zazie dans le metro (1960)
* Let's Rob the Bank (1964)
* Les Fables de La Fontaine – Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin (1966)

## F

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* Benoît Ferreux (born 1955)
* Murmur of the Heart (1971)
* It Only Happens to Others (1971)
* La Guerrilla (1972)
* Défense de savoir (1973)
* Le Beau samedi (short film, 1973)
* Sara Forestier (born 1985)
* Les Fantômes de Louba (2001)
* La Guerre à Paris (2002)
* Quelques jours entre nous (2003)
* Brigitte Fossey (born 1946)
* Forbidden Games (1952)
* The Steel Rope (1954)
* The Happy Road (1957)

## G

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* Charlotte Gainsbourg (born 1971)
* Paroles et Musique (1984)
* La tentation d'Isabelle (1985)
* An Impudent Girl (1985)
* Charlotte for Ever (1986)
* Kung Fu Master (1988)
* Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988)
* The Little Thief (1988)
* François Goeske (born 1989)
* Der kleine Mann (2001)
* Bibi Blocksberg (2002)
* The Jungle Book 2 (2003, singing role)
* The Flying Classroom [de] (2003)
* Bergkristall (2004)
* The Kids Ten Commandment (2004, voice)
* French for Beginners (2006)
* The Last Train (2006, voice)
* Breaking and Entering (2006, voice)
* Patricia Gozzi (born 1950)
* Sundays and Cybele (1962)
* Rapture (1965)

* Milo Machado-Graner (born 2008)
* Waiting for Bojangles (2021)
* Stuck Together (2021)
* In Therapy (3 episodes, 2021)
* Alex Hugo (1 episode, 2022)
* Heureusement qu'on s'a (2022)
* Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

## H

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* André Heuzé (born 1913)
* Poil de carotte (1925)
* Bobby Henrey (born 1939)
* The Fallen Idol (1948)
* The Wonder Kid (1949)

## I

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* Eva Ionesco (born 1965)
* Spermula (1976)
* Le Locataire (1976)
* Maladolescenza (1977)
* L'Amant de poche (1978)
* L'Hôtel du libre échange (1979)
* Journal d'une maison de correction (1980)
* Meurtres à domicile (1982)
* Grenouilles (1983)

## J

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* Fabrice Josso (born 1969)
* Au théâtre ce soir: Un mois à la campagne (1976)
* François le Champi (1976)
* Les Folies Offenbach (1 episode, 1977)
* The Associate (1979)
* Les Amours des années folles (1 episode, 1980)
* Sans famille (1981)
* Time Bandits (French voice of Kevin, 1981)
* La nuit du général Boulanger (1982)
* Queen Lear (1982)
* First Blood (voice in the French dub, 1982)
* Halloween III: Season of the Witch (French voice of Buddy Kupfer, 1982)
* The World According to Garp (French voice of young Garp, 1982)
* Airplane II: The Sequel (French voice of Jimmy Wilson, 1982)
* Twilight Zone: The Movie (voice in the French dub, 1983)
* Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (French voice of Tommy Jarvis, 1984)
* Cinéma 16 \- La vie telle qu'elle change (1984)
* La Famille Bargeot (1985)
* À nous les garçons (1985)
* Le Déclic (1985)
* Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986)
* Les Nouveaux Tricheurs (1987)

## K

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* Nikolai Kinski (born 1976)
* Paganini (1989)
* Jamila (1994)

## L

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* Vincent Lacoste (born 1993)
* The French Kissers (2009)
* Au bistro du coin (2011)
* Low Cost (2011)
* Skylab (2011)
* Play It Like Godard (2011)
* De l'huile sur le feu (2011)
* Pascal Lamorisse (born 1950)
* White Mane (1953)
* The Red Balloon (1956)
* Stowaway in the Sky (1960)
* Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944)
* La Tour, prends garde ! (1958)
* The 400 Blows (1959)
* Boulevard (1960)
* Testament of Orpheus (1960)
* Love at Twenty (1962)

* Martin Loeb (born 1959)[5]
* My Little Loves (1974)
* Second Chance (1976)
* Maladolescenza (1977)

* Robert Lynen (1920-1944)
* The Red Head (1932)
* The Little King (1933)
* Sans famille (1934)
* They Were Five (1936)
* The Fraudster (1937)
* The Man of the Hour (1937)
* Life Dances On (1937)
* La vie est magnifique (1938)
* Mollenard (1938)
* The Little Thing (1938)
* Education of a Prince (1938)

## M

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* Sophie Marceau (born 1966)
* La Boum (1980)
* La Boum 2 (1982)
* Fort Saganne (1984)
* Happy Easter (1984)

## P

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* Georges Poujouly (born 1940)
* Forbidden Games (1952)
* We Are All Murderers (1952)
* Les Diaboliques (1955)
* And God Created Woman (1956)

## S

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* Ludivine Sagnier (born 1979)
* Le Secret d'Iris (1996)
* Vacances au purgatoire (1992)
* La Famille Fontaine (1992)
* Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
* Le Pont du silence (1990)
* Je veux rentrer à la maison (1989)
* Les Maris, les Femmes, les Amants (1989)
* Romy Schneider (1938-1982)
* When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953)
* Fireworks (1954)
* Victoria in Dover (1954)
* The Last Man (1955)
* Die Deutschmeister (1955)
* Sissi (1955)
* Sissi – The Young Empress (1956)
* Kitty and the Great Big World (1956)

* Jules Sitruk (born 1990)
* An Angel for Chloé (1999)
* L'Ange tombé du ciel (2000)
* P.J. (one episode, 2000)
* Sans famille (2 episodes, 2000)
* Docteur Sylvestre (1 episode, 2000)
* Le pain (short film, 2001)
* Frailty (French voice of Adam Meiks as a child, 2001)
* Sauveur Giordano (1 episode, 2001)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (French voice of Haleth, 2002)
* Monsieur Batignole (2002)
* Haute Pierre (2002)
* Signs (French voice of Morgan Hess, 2003)
* I, Cesar (2003)
* Vipère au poing (2004)
* Godsend (French voice of Adam Duncan, 2004)
* Birth (French voice of Sean Contre, 2004)
* The Butterfly Effect (French voice of 7-year old Evan Treborn, 2004)
* Alexander (French voice of Alexander as a child, 2004)
* Les Aiguilles rouges (2006)
* Son of Rambow (2007)

## T

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* Victoire Thivisol (born 1991)
* Ponette (1996)
* Children of the Century (1999)
* Chocolat (2000)

## V

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* Judith Vittet (born 1984)
* The City of Lost Children (La Cité des enfants perdus) (1995)
* Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995)

* Marina Vlady (born 1938)
* Summer Storm (1949)
* Due sorelle amano (1950)
* Pardon My French (1951)
* Dans la vie tout s'arrange (1952)
* Black Feathers (1952)
* The Unfaithfuls (1953)
* Finishing School (1953)
* Too Young for Love (1953)
* Cavalcade of Song (1953)
* Musoduro (1953)
* Before the Deluge (1954)
* She (1954)
* Days of Love (1954)
* Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova (1955)
* The Hotshot (1955)
* Sophie and the Crime (1955)
* Les salauds vont en enfer (1955)
* Symphony of Love (1956)
* Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1956)
* La Sorcière (1956)
* Crime and Punishment (1956)

## References

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1. ^ "Marion Cotillard a 7 ans". YouTube (in French). 5 August 2011. Archived from the original on 14 June 2023. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
2. ^ Guignon, Jordane (30 September 2020). "Marion Cotillard fête ses 45 ans : retour sur les 8 dates clés qui ont changé sa vie (et un peu la nôtre)". Grazia (in French).
3. ^ Choulant, Dominique (24 November 2016). Marion Cotillard, Biographie (in French). France: Max Milo Editions. pp. 12, 153. ISBN 9782315008001.
4. ^ "Before They Were Stars: Marion Cotillard Gives Birth on "Highlander: The Series"". the-back-row.com. 21 January 2015. Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
5. ^ "Martin Loeb | Actor". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-01-22.