Not particularly beautiful but in no way shy about her body, she was the ideal.
Her grandmother is actress Eva-Maria Hagen, and her step-grandfather is the East German dissident writer Wolf Biermann.
After a couple of auditions for musical-theater she discovered that acting instead of singing was where her.
At the age of 11, while walking with her mother, writer Francoise Mesquida, she was spotted by director Manuel Pradal who cast her in Mary from the Bay of Angels Marie Baie de Anges.