Emmanuelle
Siegner is an actor, singer and model. Now, usually when we’re
presented with a resume disclosing such pursuits, it’s reasonable for
us to assume the so-called “creative” to whom it belongs possesses no
talent for either – Paris Hilton ring a bell? Clichés and stereotypes
aside, when it comes to Emmanuelle Siegner this couldn’t be further
from the truth.
It
should come as no surprise really, given her influences. Emmanuelle’s
mother was a photographer and journalist; her sister and grandfather
respected actors in their own right; and her husband, well, that would
be none other than celebrated (albeit exiled) director Roman Polanski.
As an awarded actor, Emmanuelle has appeared in such films as Julian
Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and La Vie En Rose
opposite Oscar winner Marion Cotillard. She has also starred alongside
Harrison Ford and Johnny Depp. As a musician, she is the lead singer of
Ultra Orange and Emmanuelle: a French group with a sound that is said
to resemble “dream pop” meets Brigitte Bardot. And finally, as a model,
(she’s represented by the same agency as Kate Moss) Emmanuelle has
appeared in campaigns for YSL and Celine, and is a perennial favourite
of Paris Vogue.
With
an innate ability to make a threadbare white t-shirt, dark roots,
smudged kohl eyeliner and cigarette-sallow skin (hmmm… somehow that
should be a bad thing) super chic, Emmanuelle Seigner is the
quintessential French beauty. Furthermore, unlike many of her Hollywood
contempories who are “freaking out at 40”, Emmanuelle, at 42 is not
only embracing her age but defying it naturally.