Ledoyen was born in
Paris and raised in
Aubervilliers, the daughter of Olga, a restaurateur, and Bernard Fernández, a merchant who sold cleaning products and knives. Her paternal grandfather was Spanish. She was a print model from the age of two and later took on the stage name "Ledoyen" after the
maiden name of her maternal grandmother, who was a
stage actress. Ledoyen's film breakthrough came with
A Single Girl (1995) (stylized
La Fille seule), for which she was nominated for a
César Award for Most Promising Actress. She also received two César Award nominations for
Les marmottes (1993) and ''
L'eau froide (1994). Outside France, her best-known role is in The Beach'' (2000). In the fall of 2000, she signed a contract as a spokesmodel with the cosmetics company
L'Oréal. She was featured alongside two
models,
Laetitia Casta and
Noémie Lenoir. She portrayed the character Cosette in the 2000 French
television miniseries of
Les Misérables. On 29 September 2001, Ledoyen gave birth to her first child, a girl, with her boyfriend, production designer Louis Soubrier, whom she met on the set of
La fille seule in 1995. She was in a short-lived marriage with Iain Rogers, a film director, from 2006 to 2007. From 2007 to 2015, she was in a relationship with actor
Arie Elmaleh, whose brother was her co-star in
The Valet. Ledoyen and Elmaleh have a son, born in July 2010, and a daughter, born in April 2014. In 2013 Ledoyen was named as a member of the jury at the
70th Venice International Film Festival. ==Filmography==