--- name: "Ariane Labed" canonical: "https://film.one/person/ariane-labed" fi1m_id: "ariane-labed" imdb_id: "nm3987673" tmdb_id: 235125 wikidata_id: "Q438820" roles: ["Actor","Director"] born: "6 May 1984" reviewed_on_fi1m: 6 average_fi1m_score: 80 average_as: "actor" average_over: 4 updated: "2026-09-21T01:41:34.498666+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Ariane Labed ## Identity Ariane Labed - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ariane-labed - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** ariane-labed - **IMDb ID:** nm3987673 - **TMDB ID:** 235125 - **Wikidata ID:** Q438820 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Labed, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q438820, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3987673/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/235125 Actor and director. Born 6 May 1984 in Athens, Greece. ## Details - **Work:** Actor, Director - **Born:** 6 May 1984, Athens, Greece - **Active:** 2011–present - **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 4 acting, 1 directing, 1 other - **Frequently works with:** [Ed Guiney](https://film.one/person/ed-guiney.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 4 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 79 (4), 2020s 70 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 82 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 4, Romance 2, Comedy 1, Mystery 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1 - **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $68m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Labed, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q438820, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3987673/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/235125 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*The Lobster*](https://film.one/film/the-lobster.md) (78), [*The Brutalist*](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md) (76) - **Tubi:** [*The Souvenir*](https://film.one/film/the-souvenir.md) (84) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Ariane Labed > Ariane Labed brings physical precision to films in which people rarely behave naturally. We value her ability to work within those strict rules, and her move into directing puts the same attention to movement behind the camera. Labed makes us notice movement before we start looking for a psychological explanation. Her dance background matters to that approach: she is comfortable with physical behaviour that a more naturalistic performance might try to soften. Her screen debut as Marina in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s *Attenberg* (2010) established that emphasis. Playing a gymnast in Yorgos Lanthimos’s *Alps* (2011) continued an early career built around directors who give actors unusual rules to follow. Lanthimos provides the clearest link between that early work and her English-language films. In *The Lobster* (2015), Labed plays the Maid within the hotel’s bleakly funny system of compulsory coupledom. This is ensemble work suited to her physical precision and comfort with stylised behaviour. We recommend the film for its satire and awkward tenderness, with a caveat: the plotting grows slack after the sharper hotel section. Joanna Hogg’s *The Souvenir* (2019), in which she plays Garance, belongs to the later work beyond those early Greek films. Brady Corbet’s *The Brutalist* (2024) gives us a reason to distinguish the quality of her acting from the material she is handed. We were frustrated by the writing given to Labed, because she performs it well while Corbet explains what his images had already conveyed. Adrien Brody and the assured first half still make the film worth an evening. Labed, too, deserves credit, though we would rather her material had been left unwritten. Her move into directing makes sense as a continuation of that attention to actors. *September Says* (2024), her first feature, adapts Daisy Johnson’s novel and brings a choreographed approach to female relationships and rites of passage. Her stated preference for keeping actors whole in the frame, rather than cutting them into close-ups, is a useful practical clue to what interests her. It gives us something specific to look for as her directing develops. We would start with *The Lobster* for the acting, allowing for a second half less sharp than the first. ## Biography Ariane Labed is a Greek-born French actress and film director. She was born on 8 May 1984 in Athens, Greece, to French parents, and studied theatre at the University of Provence, where she co-founded the Vasistas theatre company. Labed made her feature film debut in *Attenberg* (2010), directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. She has appeared in films including *Alps* (2011), *Before Midnight* (2013), *The Lobster* (2015), *Assassin's Creed* (2016), *Mary Magdalene* (2018), *The Souvenir* (2019) and *The Brutalist* (2024), in which she played Older Zsófia. She is also known for directing the short film *Olla* (2019). She has been married to filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos since 2013. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (6) ### Performed in (4) — the average rests on these - *The Brutalist* (2024), Fi1m 76, as Older Zsófia — [page](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md) - *The Souvenir* (2019), Fi1m 84, as Garance — [page](https://film.one/film/the-souvenir.md) - *The Lobster* (2015), Fi1m 78, as The Maid — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lobster.md) - *Black Mirror* (2011), Fi1m 81, as Catarina — [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md) ### Directed (1) - *September Says* (2025), Fi1m 63, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/september-says.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* (2017), Fi1m 72, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer.md) ## Complete filmography (44) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *A Girl’s Story* (2026), as Annie's Mother - *Bugonia* (2025), Thanks — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/bugonia.md) - *September Says* (2025), Writer, Director — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/september-says.md) - *The Brutalist* (2024), as Older Zsófia — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md) - *Swimming Home* (2024), as Kitti - *María Madalena* (2023), series, Actor - *Sex Is Comedy: The Revolution of Intimacy Coordinators* (2023), Actor - *The Vourdalak* (2023), as Sdenka - *Before We Collapse* (2023), as Fanny - *My Sole Desire* (2023), as Danseuse fête de la fin - *Flux Gourmet* (2022), as Lamina Propria - *H24: 24 Hours, 24 Women, 24 Stories* (2021), series, Director - *The Souvenir: Part II* (2021), as Garance - *L'Opéra* (2021), series, as Zoé Monin - *Trigonometry* (2020), series, as Ray - *Olla* (2019), Director, Screenplay - *The Souvenir* (2019), as Garance — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-souvenir.md) - *The Favourite* (2018), Thanks — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-favourite.md) - *Ad Vitam* (2018), series, as - Participation -, Odessa - *Mary Magdalene* (2018), as Rachel - *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* (2017), Thanks — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer.md) - *Assassin's Creed* (2016), as Maria - *The Stopover* (2016), as Aurore - *Despite the Night* (2016), as Hélène - *The Idyll* (2016), Thanks - *Chevalier* (2015), Thanks - *The Lobster* (2015), as The Maid · Thanks — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lobster.md) - *The Forbidden Room* (2015), as Alicia Warlock / Chambermaid - *Préjudice* (2015), as Caroline - *Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey* (2014), as Alice - *Love Island* (2014), as Liliane - *Intimate Semaphores* (2014), as Laurel - *High and Dry* (2014), as Laurel - *Magic Men* (2014), as Maria - *A Place on Earth* (2013), as Elena Morin - *Before Midnight* (2013), as Anna - *The Capsule* (2012), as Woman #1 - *Ariane* (2012), Actor - *Black Mirror* (2011), series, as Catarina — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md) - *Alps* (2011), as Gymnast · Translator - *Attenberg* (2010), as Marina - *The Possessed*, Actor - *Sud-est*, series, Actor - *Le royaume des aveugles*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Ariane Labed](https://film.one/media/person/8742/gallery-a2f330460ebf.jpg) Ariane Labed — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Ariane_Labed_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Ariane Labed](https://film.one/media/person/8742/gallery-fbdd7730e3fb.jpg) Ariane Labed — Image via TMDB - ![Ariane Labed](https://film.one/media/person/8742/gallery-331059482b5f.jpg) Ariane Labed — Image via TMDB - ![Ariane Labed](https://film.one/media/person/8742/gallery-7b15c4a62d54.jpg) Ariane Labed — Image via TMDB - ![Ariane Labed](https://film.one/media/person/8742/gallery-c15f9b06f9d4.jpg) Ariane Labed — Image via TMDB - ![Ariane Labed](https://film.one/media/person/8742/gallery-4378b6e8ee3a.jpg) Ariane Labed — Image via TMDB - ![Ariane Labed](https://film.one/media/person/8742/gallery-2af4ff6d29be.jpg) Ariane Labed — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Volpi Cup for Best Actress 2010: Volpi Cup for Best Actress (won), for *Attenberg* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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