Louis Garrel has been living a great story for a few years with Laetitia Casta. Together, the couple gave birth to Azel, in March 2021, and are at the head of a large blended family of five children, Sahteene, 20, Orlando, 16, Oumy, 14, Athena, 13 and Azel , 1 year. Oumy Garrel is the daughter that Louis Garrel, who turns 39 this Tuesday, June 14, 2022, adopted in 2009 with Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. A teenager who already has everything of a grown-up.
At 13, Oumy Garrel already walked the red carpet at the San Sebastian International Film Festival last year alongside her comedy director father The crusade. The young girl, now 14 years old, also played a small role in the film, in which her stepmother Laeticia Casta played the main role. The one who is also named Céline is the girl that Louis Garrel decided to adopt with the sister of Carla Bruni, when they were in a relationship. And like her illustrious parents, the young woman inherited a taste for comedy. She had also acted in her mother’s film, Summer visitorsin 2019.
A bad first experience
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi had evoked the experience of her daughter in front of the camera and, obviously, Oumy does not keep only good memories. “She didn’t like it! She doesn’t love, she doesn’t love herself. She doesn’t like the movie, she says it’s not a kid’s movie, she’s right“, said the actress and director in It’s up to you. But that really didn’t disgust her with the 7th art. And when she repeated the experience in her father’s film, two years later, she asserted herself as a free and determined young actress.
A character already well established
Louis Garrel left his daughter the freedom to design her role as she saw fit in The crusade. The teenager with Senegalese origins shone in the skin of this little black girl “badly looked“in a police station. “We made the film so live that I let her improvise in this scene. In fact, she wrote itshe had done all the Black Lives Matter demonstrations“, declared the companion of Laetitia Casta to the magazine QG. “And since the film was about very militant children [le thème principal tourne autour de l’écologie, NDLR] at twelve years old, I thought it was good to also bring up this subject“, he added. The young Oumy has not finished making a name for herself in French cinema.