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name: "Emilie Lesclaux"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emilie-lesclaux"
fi1m_id: "emilie-lesclaux"
imdb_id: "nm2201794"
tmdb_id: 1016227
wikidata_id: "Q28677427"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "12 September 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-18T04:13:42.097218+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."
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# Emilie Lesclaux

## Identity

Emilie Lesclaux

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emilie-lesclaux
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emilie-lesclaux
- **IMDb ID:** nm2201794
- **TMDB ID:** 1016227
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28677427
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilie_Lesclaux, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28677427, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2201794/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1016227

Producer. Born 12 September 1979 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 12 September 1979, Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France
- **Active:** 2025–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Alice Carvalho](https://film.one/person/alice-carvalho.md), [Kleber Mendonça Filho](https://film.one/person/kleber-mendonca-filho.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilie_Lesclaux, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28677427, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2201794/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1016227

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Secret Agent*](https://film.one/film/the-secret-agent.md) (84)

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

## Biography

Emilie Lesclaux is a French film producer. Born on 12 September 1979 in Bordeaux, she has lived in Recife, Brazil, since 2002.

She co-founded the CinemaScópio production company with her husband, filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, whom she married in 2007. Their collaborations include the feature films *Neighboring Sounds* (2012), *Aquarius* (2016), *Bacurau* (2019), *Pictures of Ghosts* (2023) and *The Secret Agent* (2025). She has also produced *Sleep with Your Eyes Open* (2024), directed by Nele Wohlatz.

Lesclaux was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for *The Secret Agent*. She received the title of honorary citizen of Recife in 2016.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Secret Agent* (2025), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-secret-agent.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *South of Tehran* (2026), Producer
- *The Secret Agent* (2025), Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-secret-agent.md)
- *Sleep with Your Eyes Open* (2024), Producer
- *Heartless* (2024), Producer
- *Seu Cavalcanti* (2024), Producer
- *Pictures of Ghosts* (2023), Producer
- *Bacurau no Mapa* (2019), Producer
- *Azougue Nazareth* (2019), Associate Producer
- *Bacurau* (2019), Producer
- *Aquarius* (2016), Producer
- *O Ateliê da Rua do Brum* (2016), Producer
- *Coffee Stains* (2014), Producer
- *The World Cup in Recife* (2014), Producer
- *Heartless* (2014), Producer
- *Neighboring Sounds* (2012), Producer, Executive Producer
- *Jogo sem Gandula* (2011), Director, Editor, Sound, Screenplay, Director of Photography
- *Cold Tropics* (2009), as Uma Cientista · Producer, Editor
- *Critic* (2008), Screenplay, Editor, Producer, Animation, Researcher, Finishing Producer
- *Ocidente* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Eletrodoméstica* (2005), Executive Producer, Foley Artist, Still Photographer
- *Sábado Morto*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Alice Carvalho, Wagner Moura, and Emilie Lesclaux at 2025 Cannes Red Carpet for O Agente Secreto](https://film.one/media/person/7101/gallery-4fc7fdcf4594.jpg) Alice Carvalho, Wagner Moura, and Emilie Lesclaux at 2025 Cannes Red Carpet for O Agente Secreto — Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Alice_Carvalho%2C_Wagner_Moura%2C_and_Emilie_Lesclaux_at_2025_Cannes_Red_Carpet_for_O_Agente_Secreto_1.jpg/1280px-Alice_Carvalho%2C_Wagner_Moura%2C_and_Emilie_Lesclaux_at_2025_Cannes_Red_Carpet_for_O_Agente_Secreto_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emilie Lesclaux](https://film.one/media/person/7101/gallery-eb658acbf8cb.jpg) Emilie Lesclaux — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Emilie_Lesclaux-6459.jpg/1280px-Emilie_Lesclaux-6459.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emilie Lesclaux at 2025 Cannes Red Carpet for O Agente Secreto](https://film.one/media/person/7101/gallery-0d490922df64.jpg) Emilie Lesclaux at 2025 Cannes Red Carpet for O Agente Secreto — Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Emilie_Lesclaux_at_2025_Cannes_Red_Carpet_for_O_Agente_Secreto_1.jpg/1280px-Emilie_Lesclaux_at_2025_Cannes_Red_Carpet_for_O_Agente_Secreto_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emilie Lesclaux at 2025 Cannes Red Carpet for O Agente Secreto](https://film.one/media/person/7101/gallery-5702b946af70.jpg) Emilie Lesclaux at 2025 Cannes Red Carpet for O Agente Secreto — Kacy Bao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Emilie_Lesclaux_at_2025_Cannes_Red_Carpet_for_O_Agente_Secreto_1_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Emilie_Lesclaux_at_2025_Cannes_Red_Carpet_for_O_Agente_Secreto_1_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emilie Lesclaux](https://film.one/media/person/7101/gallery-25be8e388124.jpg) Emilie Lesclaux — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2027: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Secret Agent*
- 2026: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Secret Agent*

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

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