- 1. Biography
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Biography
Born in 1997. Daughter of Italian actor Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini and a Danish costume designer, Galatea Bellugi grew up in the world of show business. With her sister Alba Gaïa Bellugi, also an actress (Intouchables, 3 x Manon), she follows her father on tour, then a member of Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil troupe. If she made her debut at the age of 7 in Les Yeux clairs, she got her first major role in 2014 in the teen movie At 14 where she found herself confronted with the pangs of adolescence.
Two years later, in Keeper, she is a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl who, along with her boyfriend, decides to bring her pregnancy to term. Her on-screen lover is another rising star of French cinema, Kacey Mottet Klein. After a small role in the chorale Repairing the Living, she troubles Vincent Lindon in The Apparition. Xavier Giannoli's film follows the investigation of a journalist sent by the Vatican to verify the claims of a teenage girl claiming to have had an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Her fragile performance earned her a César nomination for best female hope.
Along with her studies (a license in film studies in Montreal and a license in international relations in Copenhagen), she distinguished herself in 2019 in a more insolent and sulphurous role for Eva Ionesco. In A Golden Youth, she gets lost in the nightlife and meets a couple of idle rich bourgeois who turn her life upside down.
Emilie Schneider