Mélusine Mayance

Biography

Mélusine Mayance (born 21 March 1999 in Paris) is a French actress. She is best known for her role in the 2010 French-Language film "Sarah's Key", in which she portrayed the childhood version of the story's main character "Sarah Starzynski" (whose life story is uncovered and told by Kristin Scott Thomas's character many decades after the end of the second world war). Known in French as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the historical fiction film is set in 1942 France, in the midst of the second world war. Mélusine's character is a young Jewish child whose family is rounded up and arrested in downtown Paris during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup before being sent to Auschwitz for extermination. Mayance rose to success while starring in films such as Vive Les Vacances! and Ricky in which she plays the half-sister of an infant boy who grows a pair of wings.

Known For

Sarah's Key

as Sarah Starzynski, child

The Brats

as Mimi Zozo

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

as Lisbeth

Ricky

as Lisa

Brotherhood of Tears

as Juliette Chevalier

The Skin of Sorrow

as La Mediante

A Suspension of Innocence

as Julie

Ça va passer... mais quand ?

as Paola

Les Associés

as Émilie

Miroir mon amour

as Blanche Neige enfant