Roxane Mesquida

Roxane Mesquida is a French actress and model who was born in Marseille and grew up in southern France, and she was discovered at eleven by the director Manuel Pradal, who cast her in Marie from the Bay of Angels. In 1998 she appeared opposite Isabelle Huppert in Benoît Jacquot's The School of Flesh, and Catherine Breillat, whom she credited with teaching her craft, went on to direct her in Fat Girl (2001), Sex Is Comedy and The Last Mistress. She played opposite Vincent Cassel in Sheitan (2006), then moved to the United States, studying at The Barrow Group in New York before settling in Los Angeles. Gregg Araki cast her in Kaboom (2010) and Quentin Dupieux in Rubber (2010), and she appeared in Alexandra Cassavetes's Kiss of the Damned (2012). Between 2011 and 2012 she played Béatrice on the fifth season of Gossip Girl, and she has also worked as a model.