Anna Mouglalis

Anna Mouglalis (; ; born 26 April 1978) is a French actress and model. She is known for being a house ambassador for Chanel since 2002, and for portraying the fashion designer Coco Chanel in the 2009 film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, and actress Paula Maxa in the 2018 film The Most Assassinated Woman in the World.

Life and career

Mouglalis was born in Fréjus, Var, to a French mother and a Greek father. She spent her youth in the Var département, before moving to Nantes with her family. Her father is a doctor and her mother is a physical therapist.

Until 2001 Mouglalis studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique de Paris (CNSAD) under the direction of Daniel Mesguich. In addition to her native French, she speaks fluent English, Italian, and Spanish, and understands Greek to a limited extent.

In 1997, she had begun an acting career in La Nuit du Titanic, played in Paris. In the same year she was chosen by Francis Girod for the film Terminal. In 2000, she co-starred with Isabelle Huppert in Claude Chabrol's Merci pour le chocolat. After appearing in Novo (2002) by Jean Pierre Limosin, she was cast by Roberto Andò for the thriller Sotto falso nome. In 2003, she played in La Maladie de la mort, a film in black and white by first-time director Asa Mader, which previewed at the Venice Film Festival. In this same year, she co-starred in a Greek film, called Real Life (Alithini Zoi), directed by Panos Koutras. In 2005, she took part in two Italian movies: Romanzo criminale, directed by Michele Placido, and Mare buio, where she was featured alongside Luigi Lo Cascio.

In a TV movie called Les Amants du Flore and directed by Ilan Duran Cohen, Mouglalis played Simone de Beauvoir, The film was chosen to close the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2018, she portrayed French actress Paula Maxa in the Netflix film The Most Assassinated Woman in the World.

Personal life On 7 March 2007, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Saul, whom she had with French director Samuel Benchetrit.

Filmography

Actress Year Title Role Director Notes 1998 Terminale Claire Francis Girod 2000 Merci pour le chocolat Jeanne Pollet Claude Chabrol La Captive Isabelle Chantal Akerman De l'histoire ancienne The nurse Orso Miret 2002 Novo Irène Jean-Pierre Limosin La Vie nouvelle Melania Philippe Grandrieux The Wolf of the West Coast Mai Hugo Santiago 2003 Playing 'In the Company of Men' Ophélie Arnaud Desplechin The Malady of Death The woman Asa Mader Short 2004 Strange Crime Milla Roberto Andò Real Life Joy Martinokosta Panos H. Koutras En attendant le déluge Milena Damien Odoul 2005 Romanzo Criminale Patrizia Michele Placido Cabourg Film Festival - Best New ActressNominated - Italian Online Movie Award for Best Cast To oneiro tou Ikarou Priest's Wife Costa Natsis 2006 Mare nero Veronica Roberta Torre Les Amants du Flore Simone de Beauvoir Ilan Duran Cohen TV movie 2007 J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster Suzy Samuel Benchetrit 2009 Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky Coco Chanel Jan Kounen 2010 Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life Juliette Gréco Joann Sfar Mammuth The disabled Benoît Delépine & Gustave de Kervern 2011 Chez Gino Simone Roma Samuel Benchetrit L'angle mort Pierra Florence Benoist Short 2012 Kiss of the Damned Xenia Xan Cassavetes Photo Elisa Carlos Saboga 2013 Jealousy Claudia Philippe Garrel Reason Clement Belrose Bruno Ilogti Short 2014 Leopardi Fanny Targioni-Tozzetti Mario Martone Un voyage Mona Samuel Benchetrit (3) 2015 Anna Anna Charles-Olivier Michaud Pluie d'été Agathe Cyril de Gasperis Short L'homme de l'île Sandwich Lio's mother Levon Minasian Short 2016 Split Anja Deborah Kampmeier Republican Gangsters (Baron Noir) Amélie Dorendeu Ziad Doueiri TV series (8 episodes)Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actress (2016)Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actress (2018) 2018 The Most Assassinated Woman in the World Paula Maxa Franck Ribiére 2019 My Little One Jade Frédéric Choffat and Julie Gilbert 2021 The Salamander Aude Alex Carvalho Happening Mme Rivière Audrey Diwan 2022 En même temps Madame Béquet Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern 2024 Across the Sea (La Mer au loin) Noémie Saïd Hamich Benlarbi 2025 Mickey 17 Creepers' leader (voice) Bong Joon-ho Yann Gozlan Filming

Director / Writer Year Title Notes 2009 X Femmes TV series (1 episode)

Theater Year Title Author Director Notes 1997 La Nuit du Titanic Michel Pascal Michel Pascal Théâtre Rive-Gauche 1999 Spring Awakening Frank Wedekind Michel Pascal (2) Tour 2003 The Country Martin Crimp Louis-Do de Lencquesaing Théâtre de l'Œuvre 2004 HEROINE Asa Mader Asa Mader Castello Maniace