Zoe Sidel

Zoë Bleu Sidel (born 23 October 1994) is an American actress and fashion stylist. The daughter of actress Rosanna Arquette, she made her acting debut in a minor role in Sofia Coppola's Bling Ring and had her first lead role as Elisabeta/Mina Murray in Luc Besson's Dracula (2025).

Early life, family, and education

Zoë Bleu Sidel was born on 23 October 1994 in Los Angeles, California, and grew up between Laurel Canyon and Big Sur. Her mother is actress Rosanna Arquette and her father is restaurateur and political scientist John Sidel; her parents divorced when she was five.

She is of French-Canadian descent through her maternal grandfather, Lewis Arquette, and her grandmother, Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak) is of Jewish heritage, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Her aunt is Patricia Arquette.

Bleu attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied poetry and art history, focusing on periods from the Renaissance to the Baroque, as well as Medieval art history. At the time, she thought she might one day pursue screenwriting, a dream she still holds, but she didn’t yet feel confident enough to follow that path. Instead, she turned to art to learn about "historical clothing and the spectrum of light that makes up color." In 2012, she became a debutante at the Crillon Ball in Paris.

At age 15, Bleu began studying the Meisner technique, whereby actors must react instinctively to their surroundings. She recalled, "You really need to disrobe yourself and shed all your skin to reveal the most horrible part of yourself." Prior to the movie, she took acting classes for a few months, which is something she hadn't done since high school. In 2025, the film titled Dracula was released in theaters in France on July 30, 2025, with Bleu playing the dual role of Elisabeta/Mina Murray, the tragically deceased wife of Vlad/Dracula, and the young woman he finds in 19th-century Paris. The press, which is divided in its overall assessment of the film, unanimously praises her performance as “captivating", alongside those of Caleb Landry Jones, Christoph Waltz, and Matilda De Angelis.

Fashion career In 2016, Bleu walked the runway for her friend David Moses’s label, Moses Gauntlett Cheng, an experience she called "terrifying."

Personal life Bleu dated actor Jack Kilmer in 2013.

In 2016, she spoke about struggling with her body image recalling "I’m very short and stubby. I used to think, ‘Why won’t my legs stretch?". This contributed to her decision to turn down her potential first leading role in Gia Coppola’s debut film, Palo Alto (2013), instead she chose to focus on her schoolwork.

In 2015, she collaborated with Ruchira Gupta and her organization, Apne Aap Women Worldwide, which supports victims of sex trafficking in India. Her involvement was deeply personal, as she is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Sidel has stated that her primary goal is to help girls find the strength to speak about their experiences and pursue justice, emphasizing that “addressing it” is the most important step.

Filmography