Noémie Merlant

Acting

Noémie Merlant

Born

1988-11-27 (37)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

73 titles

Noémie Merlant (born 27 November 1988) is a French actress. She has been nominated three times at the César Awards, including a nomination for her breakout role in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and a win for The Innocent (2022).

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 24 titles

Lee poster
7.0

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

Lee

2024

TÁR poster
7.1

As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.

TÁR

2022

Paris, 13th District poster
6.8

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

Paris, 13th District

2021

Emmanuelle poster
4.7

While traveling, Emmanuelle meets Kei, a man who constantly eludes her. Though she indulges in the many alluring distractions, she can’t shake their chance encounter. Will she submit to her basest desires to forge a deeper relationship?

Emmanuelle

2024

One Year, One Night poster
6.0

Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep scar on both their lives and each tries to cope.

One Year, One Night

2022

Les Misérables poster
7.0

After enduring 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean emerges a hardened man. He seeks redemption by reinventing himself as a respected dignitary under a new identity. He promises Fantine, a dying factory worker, to rescue and protect her daughter Cosette, who is being exploited and mistreated by the deceitful Thénardier family. As Valjean raises Cosette as his own, he is relentlessly pursued by Inspector Javert. Admist the social unrest shaking France, the fates of Valjean, Cosette, her lover Marius, and Javert become intertwined in a turbulent, revolutionary Paris. Through struggles, sacrifices, and a deep yearning for justice, Valjean strives to complete his journey of redemption and offer Cosette a future of love and freedom.

Les Misérables

2026

The Innocent poster
6.7

Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship.

The Innocent

2022

The Balconettes poster
6.1

As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighborhood to a boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbors from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair.

The Balconettes

2024

The Original+ poster
6.0

Canal+ Group hosted a live splashy American-style upfront presentation the Olympia in Paris, unveiling their prestige 2026 slate.

The Original+

2025

Jumbo poster
5.6

Jeanne, a shy young woman, works as a night guard at an amusement park and has a close relationship with her mother. While no man can compete with this opposed duo, Jeanne begins to develop strange romantic feelings for Jumbo, the latest attraction at the theme park...

Jumbo

2020

A Difficult Year poster
5.9

Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction.

A Difficult Year

2023

Soul Mates poster
4.9

Lieutenant of the French forces engaged in Mali, David Faber is seriously burned during the explosion of his armored vehicle. Repatriated to France for intensive care, he must begin a long convalescence, under the worried but devoted gaze of his sister Jeanne. They meet again in the family house in the Alps, between mountains, lake and forests. Jeanne tries to reconnect her brother with the past, but David, who suffers from amnesia after the accident, does not seem to be interested in reconciling with the man he used to be.

Soul Mates

2023

Duse poster
6.7

In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she makes her art a revolutionary act, even at the cost of sacrificing health and affection—facing her final journey aware she could give up life itself, but not her own true nature.

Duse

2025

Baby Ruby poster
5.1

After welcoming her baby, Ruby, home, the tightly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Jo starts to unravel. As increasingly sinister happenings mount, Jo is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems.

Baby Ruby

2023

Roma elastica poster
NR

1982. French actress Eddie is on the verge of collapse and travels to Rome accompanied by her loyal makeup artist, Valentina, to shoot a science-fiction film – a film that could be her last one.

Roma elastica

2026

Shakira poster
6.4

While trying to save her family from a return to the street, Shakira, a young gypsy woman, meets Marius, a member of a robber gang.

Shakira

2020

Mi Iubita, Mon Amour poster
4.3

Jeanne is traveling to Romania to celebrate her bachelorette party with her friends when she meets Nino and his family. They are worlds away from one another, yet for the two of them it is the beginning of a passionate and timeless summer.

Mi Iubita, Mon Amour

2022

Le deuxième sexe : Sur les traces de Simone de Beauvoir poster
6.0

Published in 1949, The Second Sex became the bible of global feminism. An essential work that passionately advocates for gender equality, women's independence, and the liberation of morals. Today, how does this seminal work continue to resonate in our contemporary world? Conceived as an initiatory journey to the origins of Simone de Beauvoir's thinking, the film The Second Sex: In the Footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir takes us to the United States, to the places that inspired the philosopher and nourished her theories. An American road trip bringing together the worst and the best, predatory capitalism and mad love. A unique reinterpretation in the company of the great thinkers of our century.

Le deuxième sexe : Sur les traces de Simone de Beauvoir

2025

D'Emmanuelle à Emmanuelle poster
5.0

« Emmanuelle » was released 50 years ago. Its main character, played by the young Sylvia Kristel, delve freely into her sexuality, without taboo. This bold movie became one of the great success of french cinema in the 70s, and Emmanuelle became the face of sexual liberation. Through the gaze of a woman, the character is back on the screen in 2024. This new Emmanuelle, written by Audrey Diwan, go in quest of a lost pleasure.

D'Emmanuelle à Emmanuelle

2024

Rire (enfin) au féminin poster
NR

For a long time, in France, comedy was the preserve of men. Female roles were mostly secondary and corresponded to stereotypes such as the pretty doll, the funny but unattractive woman, or the troublesome, even cantankerous wife

Rire (enfin) au féminin

2024

A Good Man poster
4.5

Benjamin and Aude have loved each other for 7 years. They live together on a small island in Brittany. Benjamin dreams of starting a family but the couple learns that Aude is sterile. So Benjamin has an idea. He is the one who will bear their child because before being Benjamin, his name was Sarah.

A Good Man

2021

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2025 poster
NR

César winners revisit, sometimes for the very first time, the footage of that important moment in their careers: the night they received a César Award. It’s an opportunity to look back on and comment on this defining moment in their cinematic lives. Featuring Carole Bouquet, Sara Forestier, Emmanuelle Devos, André Dussollier, Justine Triet and Noémie Merlant.

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2025

2025

No artwork available
NR

A schoolteacher reads aloud excerpts from the most poignant scene of violence against women in Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the ancient verses echo through the classroom, her students begin to recognize beneath the poetry - the myths reveal themselves to be an unsettling mirror of contemporary reality.

Les métamorphoses, au féminin

2026

Looking for Simone poster
7.3

In 1949, philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir wrote the groundbreaking The Second Sex, launching a disruptive discourse on women’s oppression and second-class citizenship. This film dissects the origins and relevance of this bible of feminism, charting de Beauvoir’s fact-finding journey across the US to research her book. The timely and fascinating film honors de Beauvoir’s brilliance and limitations, connecting her revolutionary ideas to the pressing issues women face today.

Looking for Simone

2024

2010s · 28 titles

Portrait of a Lady on Fire poster
8.1

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2019

One Wild Moment poster
5.8

Antoine and Laurent, old friends, spend their vacation in Corsica with their respective daughters: seventeen-year-old Louna and eighteen-year-old Marie. One evening at the beach, Louna seduces Laurent. Louna is in love, but for Laurent it was nothing more than a momentary distraction. Without revealing her lover's name, Louna confides in her father, who tries by any means to discover who his daughter's lover is. How long will the secret be able to be kept hidden?

One Wild Moment

2015

Curiosa poster
5.8

A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.

Curiosa

2019

Return of the Hero poster
6.3

France, 1809. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up.

Return of the Hero

2018

Smart Ass poster
6.0

Kelly, Dan and Louis are students at a prestigious business school, destined to become tomorrow's elite. The industrious trio are determined to start putting their education into practise from the off in an attempt to make as much money as they can from their fellow students. Working on the theory that relationships between the sexes can be regulated by market principles, they begin to inflate the popularity of certain individuals artificially, by hiring beautiful and sexy off-campus women as their dates for exclusive and riotous college parties. However their perfect business model soon spirals out of control as their moneymaking scheme takes off in a big way across campus.

Smart Ass

2014

Newcomer poster
5.5

When a rookie operative's mistake costs the lives of his entire team, he's forced on the run and must piece together the truth by re-creating the events of the ill-fated mission with only the audio recording to guide him.

Newcomer

2015

Once in a Lifetime poster
7.4

At Léon Blum High School in Créteil, France, a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class participate in a national history competition.

Once in a Lifetime

2014

Des lendemains qui chantent poster
5.7

Olivier and Leo, two brothers that are moved to Paris and that life has separated ... If the first sees himself as a journalist without concessions, the second is an ambitious and opportunistic communication adviser. Noémie, a charming presidential adviser, can not, over the years, choose between them. To the amusement of Sylvain, their childhood friend, who made his fortune in Pink Minitel, their destinies intersect over 20 years, are intertwined, in a funny epic, tender and nostalgic, in the 80 / 90.

Des lendemains qui chantent

2014

Heaven Will Wait poster
6.9

Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?

Heaven Will Wait

2016

The Duty poster
7.0

A mother's illness sees two siblings returning home to face the closeted circumstances that drove them apart.

The Duty

2013

Diving poster
6.0

A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.

Diving

2017

The Moon Child poster
6.1

David, a professor of dermatology, has been treating 13-year-old Romain since he was a baby. Afflicted with a rare skin condition, Romain must avoid sunlight and is condemned to live in the shade. David and Romain have become the closest of friends and nothing can separate them. But then David learns that he is about to be transferred to another clinic in another town. How will he be able to break the news to Romain? And how will Romain cope with this new crisis in his life?

The Moon Child

2011

Paper Flags poster
7.1

He is 30 and just got out of jail after 12 years of detention. She is almost 24 and has a simple life away from the city. One day, he comes to her and she let him stay with her. That's complicated when your older brother needs to get back to a normal life. Between tenderness and bursts of laughter, his anger is sometimes out of control. However, she wants to help him. As for him, he wants to meet with his sister again.

Paper Flags

2019

Young Mothers in the '70s poster
6.6

In the 1970s, the house of Plessis welcomes young pregnant minors. Even though these unborn children are the fruit of love or rape, in this institution, a single slogan: put these girls in the right way. But the day when the revolt rumbles, the mechanism fails... A story deliberately based on real events.

Young Mothers in the '70s

2016

All About Mothers poster
5.2

They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits, or losing their heads. Alive or already a memory. They are mothers, and it’s their party.

All About Mothers

2018

Twisting Fate poster
4.4

17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By a stroke of luck, Claire survives, but finds herself alone, far from home in a country where everything is unfamiliar and intense. Distraught and consumed by guilt in the belief that she is somehow responsible for the death of her family, she runs away and decides to let fate, which saved her from death, guide her from now on.

Twisting Fate

2016

The Audition poster
7.2

François attends a casting. After a very strange interview, he finds out he is actually at the heart of the mysterious set up in which he is forced to take part...

The Audition

2013

La Loi de Christophe poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

La Loi de Christophe

2016

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon poster
6.0

A man goes on holiday with his wife and daughter to celebrate his retirement.

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

2014

The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm poster
2.0

Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. She lives in an orphanage in Burgandy.

The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm

2012

Nemesis poster
NR

Four garbage collectors discover a disoriented young woman, hidden behind a heap of boxes. Charitable, they collect her and provide her with hospitality. One of them has an artist's studio where they usually meet. Secretly falling in love with this pretty and mysterious woman, they will, at first, collect the garbage in record time to get back to her, then considerably slow down the rate when they learn that the young woman is on the run, dangerous, wanted by the police. The four friends begin to regret their simple life of yesteryear.

Nemesis

2013

WEI or DIE poster
6.0

During a French business school’s hazing weekend, the body of a drowned student is discovered on the banks of a lake. Police responding to the incident question witnesses, but their stories don’t add up and they begin to suspect that this tragedy was no accident.

WEI or DIE

2015

Dieumerci ! poster
5.9

A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.

Dieumerci !

2016

Republique: The Interactive poster
NR

10pm on a summer's evening. The sun goes down over the Place de la République in Paris. Lucie and Rio embark on an "urbex", descending into the city's abandoned underground networks. The two teens share their adventure live on social media. On a subway platform, two young lawyers are on their way to join some friends. They film themselves as they wait for the train. Nora and Djibril have just made love. While he heads off to work, she meets a friend for the evening. None of them yet know it, but moments later, a terrorist attack will change their lives, linking their destinies forever. In a few moments, they are about to enter the darkness. The fiction unfolds through three simultaneous video feeds, filmed on cellphones and available to all via social media.

Republique: The Interactive

2019

I Am a Doe poster
NR

Nina, alias #Ninalabiche on Snapchat, is a young girl addicted to social media. To escape her anxieties and her lack of confidence, she invents a life with a doe filter on her phone. Nina is in love with Jonas, a boy on the internet whom she harasses. One day, when she bombards the feed with her snaps, the virtual meets the real: Nina meets the doe, and maybe even the one she loves so much ...

I Am a Doe

2017

Lapsus poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lapsus

2013

No artwork available
NR

At the initiative of a festival adapting a play to the cinema, "Cid Story" is a short film that takes up act 3 scene 3 of Corneille's Le Cid. It is a contemporary version whose diegesis has been slightly disrupted. Indeed, without touching the original text, the editing and arrangement of the shots illustrate in parallel with scene 3 a different interaction between the characters, which will disrupt the course of the story. To give meaning and interest to my adaptation, I decided to play with the ambiguities left hanging by the author and taken up in the film adaptation of the play with "Charlton Eston". Corneille chooses to establish a relationship of fascination between Elvire and Chimène. I chose to go a little further by pushing the latter's feelings towards those of love. Starting from this postulate, Chimène will decide out of passion to assassinate Don Rodrigue, the man who makes the woman she loves suffer so much.

Cid Story

2012

Unexpected poster
NR

Sebastian celebrates his birthday today. He does not know yet but some friends prepared him a surprise. A surprise that will unfold in a very unexpected way.

Unexpected

2017

Undated · 4 titles

Series credits

Quotidien poster
4.9

Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.

Quotidien

2016

C à vous poster
6.1

Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.

C à vous

2009

Clique poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Clique

2013

The Apartment poster
8.0

The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply by the sound of the host's voice.

The Apartment

2001

Marcians poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marcians

2017

Beau geste poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Beau geste

2023

Le Cercle poster
NR

As long as there is cinema, LE CERCLE will be there. It is the only television program of critical debates 100% devoted to cinema. Each week, it offers fiery, joyful and non-condescending jousts on the films on the bill; and invites with "Le questionnaire du CERCLE" directors to come and share their passion for cinema.

Le Cercle

2005

Le jour où tout a basculé poster
1.0

Scripted reality show inspired by real events and invented stories presented by lawyer Nathalie Fellonneau.

Le jour où tout a basculé

2011

H24: 24 Hours, 24 Women, 24 Stories poster
4.2

Twenty-four short films by 24 female writers, performed by 24 women actors, all based on women’s real life experiences of sexism, harassment, and violence. A diversity of female voices and talent from across Europe come together for a series that tackles head-on the everyday brutality experienced by women.

H24: 24 Hours, 24 Women, 24 Stories

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Animal Sauvage

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Behind the camera

The Balconettes poster
6.1

As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighborhood to a boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbors from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair.

The Balconettes

2024

The Balconettes poster
6.1

As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighborhood to a boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbors from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair.

The Balconettes

2024

Shakira poster
6.4

While trying to save her family from a return to the street, Shakira, a young gypsy woman, meets Marius, a member of a robber gang.

Shakira

2020

Shakira poster
6.4

While trying to save her family from a return to the street, Shakira, a young gypsy woman, meets Marius, a member of a robber gang.

Shakira

2020

Mi Iubita, Mon Amour poster
4.3

Jeanne is traveling to Romania to celebrate her bachelorette party with her friends when she meets Nino and his family. They are worlds away from one another, yet for the two of them it is the beginning of a passionate and timeless summer.

Mi Iubita, Mon Amour

2022

Mi Iubita, Mon Amour poster
4.3

Jeanne is traveling to Romania to celebrate her bachelorette party with her friends when she meets Nino and his family. They are worlds away from one another, yet for the two of them it is the beginning of a passionate and timeless summer.

Mi Iubita, Mon Amour

2022

I Am a Doe poster
NR

Nina, alias #Ninalabiche on Snapchat, is a young girl addicted to social media. To escape her anxieties and her lack of confidence, she invents a life with a doe filter on her phone. Nina is in love with Jonas, a boy on the internet whom she harasses. One day, when she bombards the feed with her snaps, the virtual meets the real: Nina meets the doe, and maybe even the one she loves so much ...

I Am a Doe

2017