After spending brief periods in Tokyo and New York City, She never enjoyed modelling, however, saying that "I was a model for eight years and really hated it." Although the network wanted her back for a second season, she declined their offer in favour of embarking on a movie career. In 2013, she appeared in
Mood Indigo and
The Marchers, Le Bon was cast with
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in
The Walk, a film directed by
Robert Zemeckis and based on
Philippe Petit's famous
tightrope walk in 1974, released in 2015. In 2015, she dubbed the voice of Joy in both the
European French and
Canadian French dubs of the Pixar film
Inside Out. In 2016, she appeared in six films.
The Promise matched her with
Christian Bale and
Oscar Isaac in a story based on events that occurred during the Armenian Genocide. She also played in the
science fiction film
Realive, the
World War II film
Anthropoid, and the action movie
Bastille Day with
Idris Elba. She also maintained her profile in France by starring in two French films,
Arctic Heart and
Iris (where she reunited with director
Jalil Lespert). Le Bon made her directorial debut with the short film
Judith Hotel, which premiered at the
2018 Cannes Film Festival. Her
feature film directorial debut Falcon Lake, adapted from the graphic novel
Une sœur by
Bastien Vivès, premiered in the
Director's Fortnight program at the
2022 Cannes Film Festival. As part of the 2011 commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the
March for Equality and Against Racism, she collaborated with French artist
JR in organizing the
Inside Out Project, in which 2500 black & white portraits were posted in
Lyon in December 2013. She subsequently maintained a sporadic involvement in
street art by creating works that allow audience interaction, such as moons on strings that can be unhooked by passers-by (on the streets of Paris and in New York City's
Rikers Island prison). In September 2016, she confirmed her return to illustrating with an exhibit called "One Bedroom Hotel on the Moon" at Anne-Dominique Toussaint's Galerie Cinéma in Paris. In an interview with
The New York Times, she explained that this exhibit symbolizes the merging of melancholy and hope: "the expression of a poetic isolation". ==Personal life==