Virginie Legeay

Acting

Virginie Legeay

Born 1982-11-09

After studying at the Ciné-Sup preparatory class and then at La Fémis (class of 2007, scriptwriting department), Virginie Legeay co-wrote Franco Lolli’s two feature films Gente de bien and Une mère incroyable (Litigante), both of which were screened at Premiers Plans. She also acted as a consultant on the screenplays for Emma Benestan’s Petite sauvage, Jean-Baptiste Durand’s Chien de la casse (Junkyard Dog) and Dania Reymond-Boughenou’s Les Tempêtes. All three were read at Premiers Plans.

Acting credits

The Exterminating Angels poster
5.3

A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his latest project: a thriller on the subject of female pleasure.

The Exterminating Angels

2006

La plage poster
4.2

Under the sun, the feet in the water, even at the beach people does not succeed to relax. Nobody may deny than something wrong is happening right beside them but everyone fake to not see anything...

La plage

2015

The Girl from Nowhere poster
5.7

Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new to Michel’s life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of mysterious happenings.

The Girl from Nowhere

2013

Europa poster
5.0

Two lovers appeal to each other in the empty streets of Madrid, lost in the first dawn of 2018. Both of them cross a mountain tunnel the last night of 1999. They keep the same age, but their names are different. They want to get to a rave party where hundreds of youngsters like them will welcome 21st century. The car stops at the entrance of the woods, among the far music echoes, but the party and their lives empty out in the middle of a deluded night. In the first morning of the new millennium, they will contemplate the future. They will see Europa burn.

Europa

2018

Try to Die Young poster
6.8

It's birthday time. Drifting through the dark night, Vincent and Hervé are looking for something to do. You only turn 25 once.

Try to Die Young

2014

But We Have the Music poster
NR

Portraits of people taken in a same space : space of listening, space of black & white. In this space can go together the fantasies of the model and the filmmaker.

But We Have the Music

2009

Youth poster
NR

While Koala, the quartermaster, deeply sleeps, Captain Diamand tells the young sailor Luciole about the finest memory of his youth. She was called Cinnamon.

Youth

2017

Behind the camera

HappyDeal poster
7.0

In the near future, a struggling single mother living out of her car with her young daughter sees a life-changing opportunity when a global online retail giant launches a hiring initiative for people in need. After an unexpected setback threatens her chances, she's offered an experimental alternative that could secure her future, but at a cost she never anticipated.

HappyDeal

2026

Les Photographes poster
NR

The Hoffmann's are a famous couple of photographers. They are called to Berlin to shoot a significant commissioned series, but this work will not proceed as planned.

Les Photographes

2015

The Days Before poster
6.1

In an estate in the South of Algiers, in the middle of the nineties. Djaber and Yamina are neighbours, but do not know each other. For one as for the other, it is so difficult to meet between girls and boys, that they almost stopped dreaming about it. In a few days nevertheless, what was up to then that deaf and distant violence explodes in front of them, modifying for ever their fates.

The Days Before

2013

Silent Storms poster
4.8

Nacer, a 45 year old journalist, is observing the appearance of strange yellow sandstorms looming over Algiers and its surroundings. While covering the phenomenon for his newspaper, he starts witnessing more and more supernatural events, until his late wife Fajar returns to life. Faced with increasingly threatening storms, Samir has to face a dark past that haunts him.

Silent Storms

2024

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un homme s'est échappé

Gente de bien poster
6.6

Eric, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself living overnight with Gabriel, his father whom he barely knows. Seeing that the man is having a hard time building a relationship with his son and staying afloat financially, Maria Isabel, the upper-class woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the boy under her wing.

Gente de bien

2014

No artwork available
7.0

Pablo, aged sixteen, lives with his mother. Over the last few years, she has done her best to deal with financial difficulties, but it hasn't been easy. Pablo tries to keep living the way they used to.

Como todo el mundo

2007