Elisa Sednaoui
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Elisa Sednaoui December 14, 1987 |
| Occupation | Model, actress, film director, philanthropist |
Elisa Sednaoui (born 14 December 1987 in Bra, Piedmont, Italy) is a model, actress, philanthropist and film director of Italian, Egyptian, and French descent. She has appeared in such films as Eastern Drift,La Baie du renard, ,, and Remember Now, as well as in fashion campaigns for Chanel Eyewear, Giorgio Armani, Missoni and Roberto Cavalli. In 2013, she created the Elisa Sednaoui Foundation, dedicated to promoting creative learning, after-school initiatives for youngsters.
Sednaoui was born in Italy and raised between three countries, Egypt, Italy, and France. She spent much of her early life in Luxor. Her mother is of Italian heritage, while her father has Syrian-Egyptian and French roots. The Sednaoui family, a Melkite Greek Catholic family of Syrian descent, finds its roots in the city of Sednaya, which is where their surname originates from. The Sednaoui family migrated to Egypt at the end of the 19th century and developed successful department stores in Cairo. These stores were once the Middle Eastern counterpart of the famous department stores known in London, Paris and New York.
Sednaoui’s first feature film, Šarūnas Bartas’ Eastern Drift was released in Paris in December 2010. She played the lead female role of "Gabriella", alongside Bartas. The film was shown at – section “The International Forum of New Cinema.” In La Baie du Renard, a short film selected to close Critics Week (Semaine de la Critique) at Cannes Film Festival 2009, Sednaoui starred alongside Pierre Torreton
She was recently seen on French screens in Christopher Thompson's first feature film Bus Palladium, co-starring with Marc André Grondin and Arthur Dupont. Sednaoui also starred opposite French actor Pascal Greggory in Karl Lagerfeld’s short film Remember Now, the introduction to the 2010 Chanel Cruise Collection.
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