---
name: "Émilie Dequenne"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emilie-dequenne"
fi1m_id: "emilie-dequenne"
imdb_id: "nm0220183"
tmdb_id: 23671
wikidata_id: "Q259968"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 August 1981"
died: "16 March 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T03:01:32.750530+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."
---

# Émilie Dequenne

## Identity

Émilie Dequenne

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emilie-dequenne
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emilie-dequenne
- **IMDb ID:** nm0220183
- **TMDB ID:** 23671
- **Wikidata ID:** Q259968
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_Dequenne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259968, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220183/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23671

Actor. Born 29 August 1981 in Belœil, Belgique. Died 16 March 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 August 1981, Belœil, Belgique
- **Died:** 16 March 2025
- **Active:** 1999–2022
- **Cannes Film Festival:** 1 Cannes prize (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (1), 2020s 75 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_Dequenne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259968, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220183/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23671

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Rosetta*](https://film.one/film/rosetta.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Émilie Dequenne was a Belgian actress. She made her screen debut in the Dardenne brothers' *Rosetta* (1999), winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the role.

She appeared in films including *Brotherhood of the Wolf* (2001), *Our Children* (2012), for which she received a further Cannes award in the Un Certain Regard section, *Love Affair(s)* (2020), for which she won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress, and *Close* (2022) as Sophie. Dequenne trained at the Académie de Musique et des Arts de la Parole in Saint-Ghislain from the age of twelve. She was married to actor Michel Ferracci from 2014.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, watch.plex.tv, bbc.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Close* (2022), Fi1m 75, as Sophie — [page](https://film.one/film/close.md)
- *Rosetta* (1999), Fi1m 82, as Rosetta — [page](https://film.one/film/rosetta.md)

## Complete filmography (58)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Arcanes* (2025), series, Actor
- *Don't Worry, I'll be Ok* (2024), as Emma's mom
- *Survive* (2024), as Julia
- *Retrotherapy* (2024), as La Neurologue
- *Double foyer* (2024), as Lili
- *Mr. Blake at Your Service!* (2023), as Odile
- *Marinette* (2023), as Marinette's Mother
- *The Daughter of Albino Rodrigue* (2023), as Marga Rodrigue
- *Start Over* (2023), series, as Juliette Kharoub
- *Close* (2022), as Sophie — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/close.md)
- *Love Affair(s)* (2020), as Louise
- *An Ordinary Man* (2020), series, as Anna-Rose Gagnaire
- *Astrid & Raphaëlle* (2020), series, as Marissa Martenot
- *An Irrepressible Woman* (2020), as Renée, Blum's daughter-in-law
- *La Maladroite* (2019), as Emma Saugier
- *Inside* (2019), series, as Camille Perroti
- *My Mum, Cancer and Me* (2019), as Cathy
- *Une vie après* (2018), as Marion
- *The Consolation* (2017), as Flavie Flament
- *See You Up There* (2017), as Madeleine Péricourt
- *The Brigade* (2017), as Chief Warrant Officer Bénédicte Meursault
- *This Is Our Land* (2017), as Pauline Duhez
- *Mum Is Wrong* (2016), as Cyrielle
- *Par accident* (2015), as Angélique
- *Capitaine Marleau* (2015), series, as Véronique Rémonville
- *Souviens-toi* (2015), as Emilie Auclair
- *Accusé* (2015), series, as Cécile
- *Not My Type* (2014), as Jennifer
- *Divin enfant* (2014), as Sarah
- *Möbius* (2013), as Sandra
- *The Crossing* (2012), as Sarah Arendt
- *Our Children* (2012), as Murielle
- *Mystery at Moulin Rouge* (2011), as Diane Barraud
- *Mystery in Paris* (2011), series, as Diane Barraud
- *The Pack* (2010), as Charlotte
- *I Forgot to Tell You* (2010), as Marie
- *Obsession(s)* (2010), as Sarah Lisbourne
- *The Girl on the Train* (2009), as Jeanne
- *Rien dans les poches* (2008), as Judith Miro
- *Miroir, mon beau miroir* (2008), as Marion
- *Charlotte Corday* (2008), as Charlotte Corday
- *To Each His Own Cinema* (2007), as The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité")
- *La Vie d'artiste* (2007), as Cora
- *Fissures* (2007), as Charlotte
- *Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross* (2007), as Cécile Thuillier
- *The Great Meaulnes* (2006), as Valentine
- *A Song of Innocence* (2005), as Charlotte
- *Before You Leave* (2005), as Aurélia
- *The United States of Albert* (2005), as Grace Carson
- *The Bridge of San Luis Rey* (2004), as Doña Clara
- *The Light* (2004), as Brigitte
- *L'Américain* (2004), as Nelly
- *The Very Merry Widows* (2003), as Laurence Milcaux
- *The Housekeeper* (2002), as Laura
- *Jean Moulin* (2002), series, as Lili
- *Yes, But...* (2001), as Eglantine Laville
- *Brotherhood of the Wolf* (2001), as Marianne de Morangias
- *Rosetta* (1999), as Rosetta — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/rosetta.md)

## Gallery

- ![Émilie Dequenne](https://film.one/media/person/21651/gallery-7ffe5b55e47e.jpg) Émilie Dequenne — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/%C3%89milie_Dequenne_This_Is_Our_Land_-_IFFR_2017_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-%C3%89milie_Dequenne_This_Is_Our_Land_-_IFFR_2017_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Émilie Dequenne and Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the red carpet for the screening of the movie Me and Orson Welles (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/21651/gallery-c4aa374879a2.jpg) Émilie Dequenne and Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the red carpet for the screening of the movie Me and Orson Welles (2009) — Mireille Ampilhac, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Emilie_Dequenne_and_Jean-Pierre_Jeunet_at_the_2009_Deauville_American_Film_Festival-01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Emilie Dequenne en 2007 pour la pièce de théâtre "mademoiselle Julie".](https://film.one/media/person/21651/gallery-42e7fff9081b.jpg) Emilie Dequenne en 2007 pour la pièce de théâtre "mademoiselle Julie". — Michaël Bemelmans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Emilie_Dequenne_en_2007_pour_la_pi%C3%A8ce_de_th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_%22mademoiselle_Julie%22.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![L to R: Émilie Dequenne, Aïssa Maïga, Sophie Quinton, Louise Monot and Déborah François at screening of the movie The Proposal. (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/21651/gallery-d5f5c7f1bc62.jpg) L to R: Émilie Dequenne, Aïssa Maïga, Sophie Quinton, Louise Monot and Déborah François at screening of the movie The Proposal. (2009) — Mireille Ampilhac, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Five_actresses_posing_at_the_2009_Deauville_American_Film_Festival-01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Émilie Dequenne](https://film.one/media/person/21651/gallery-e42082c425e9.jpg) Émilie Dequenne — Image via TMDB
- ![Émilie Dequenne](https://film.one/media/person/21651/gallery-8fe55a827818.jpg) Émilie Dequenne — Image via TMDB
- ![Émilie Dequenne](https://film.one/media/person/21651/gallery-623cceba56c7.jpg) Émilie Dequenne — Image via TMDB
- ![Le jury "sang neuf" de Reims Polar édition 2023 avec, de gauche à droite: Cédric Jimenez, Pierre Rochefort, Yannick Renier, Émilie Dequenne Patricia Mazuy, Alex](https://film.one/media/person/21651/gallery-5ef2a96365a3.jpg) Le jury "sang neuf" de Reims Polar édition 2023 avec, de gauche à droite: Cédric Jimenez, Pierre Rochefort, Yannick Renier, Émilie Dequenne Patricia Mazuy, Alex — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Le_jury_%22comp%C3%A9tition%22_de_Reims_Polar_2023.jpg/1280px-Le_jury_%22comp%C3%A9tition%22_de_Reims_Polar_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Émilie Dequenne at the IFFR 2017 promoting the movie "This Is Our Land"](https://film.one/media/person/21651/gallery-4696111ec1b6.jpg) Émilie Dequenne at the IFFR 2017 promoting the movie "This Is Our Land" — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/This_Is_Our_Land_-_IFFR_2017_%283%29.jpg/1280px-This_Is_Our_Land_-_IFFR_2017_%283%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Émilie Dequenne](https://film.one/media/person/21651/gallery-54693ad2b9ad.jpg) Émilie Dequenne — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won

- 1999: Best Actress (won)

### Other awards — 1 won, 3 nominated

- César Award for Best Supporting Actress 2021: César Award for Best Supporting Actress (won)
- César Award for Best Actress 2015: César Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Not My Type*
- European Film Award for Best Actress 2012: European Film Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Our Children*
- European Film Award for Best Actress 1999: European Film Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Rosetta*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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