Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey (born 26 May 1986) is a French-Spanish actress
and model. She is best known for playing Suzanne in The Sea Wall, the
mermaid Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Sofi
in I Origins. She is the recipient of the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in
2009 and the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year
at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and a nomination at the 2016 David di
Donatello in Rome.Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey was born in Barcelona,
Spain, to a Spanish father and a French mother. She is the eldest
among three daughters. Following her parents' divorce when she was 2
years old, she moved to southwestern France when she was 5. She was
raised in a small town near La Rochelle, where she acted in school
plays as a hobby, but never saw acting as a possible career path as
the countryside where she lived was very different from the movie
industry, describing how she thought acting was "not a profession; it
was something abstract". Her father later moved to the Dominican
Republic, where she spent five summers working as a waitress. At age
17, she moved to Paris by herself to pursue a career in osteopathy,
but found herself moving around a lot, without knowing anybody in the
area. Shortly after, her father died at age 46. Due to the incident,
she describes realizing that life is too short and that her true
ambition was acting. After graduation, she went straight to drama
school. She is fluent in Catalan, Spanish, French and Italian. She
started learning English for her role in Pirates of the Caribbean.She
made her acting debut in 2007 on French television. In 2008, she made
her feature début in the film The Sea Wall. She began modelling in
2010, fronting French Connection's spring/summer and autumn/winter
campaigns.
and model. She is best known for playing Suzanne in The Sea Wall, the
mermaid Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Sofi
in I Origins. She is the recipient of the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in
2009 and the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year
at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and a nomination at the 2016 David di
Donatello in Rome.Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey was born in Barcelona,
Spain, to a Spanish father and a French mother. She is the eldest
among three daughters. Following her parents' divorce when she was 2
years old, she moved to southwestern France when she was 5. She was
raised in a small town near La Rochelle, where she acted in school
plays as a hobby, but never saw acting as a possible career path as
the countryside where she lived was very different from the movie
industry, describing how she thought acting was "not a profession; it
was something abstract". Her father later moved to the Dominican
Republic, where she spent five summers working as a waitress. At age
17, she moved to Paris by herself to pursue a career in osteopathy,
but found herself moving around a lot, without knowing anybody in the
area. Shortly after, her father died at age 46. Due to the incident,
she describes realizing that life is too short and that her true
ambition was acting. After graduation, she went straight to drama
school. She is fluent in Catalan, Spanish, French and Italian. She
started learning English for her role in Pirates of the Caribbean.She
made her acting debut in 2007 on French television. In 2008, she made
her feature début in the film The Sea Wall. She began modelling in
2010, fronting French Connection's spring/summer and autumn/winter
campaigns.
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