---
name: "Mélanie Gouby"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/melanie-gouby"
fi1m_id: "melanie-gouby"
imdb_id: "nm7241312"
tmdb_id: 1462832
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T23:28:55.067244+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."
---

# Mélanie Gouby

## Identity

Mélanie Gouby

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/melanie-gouby
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** melanie-gouby
- **IMDb ID:** nm7241312
- **TMDB ID:** 1462832
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7241312/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1462832

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7241312/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1462832

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Virunga*](https://film.one/film/virunga.md) (84)

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

## Biography

Mélanie Gouby is an investigative journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker based in London. She studied Politics and International Relations at University College London. From 2009 to 2011 she covered trials at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and from 2011 to 2014 she lived in Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, reporting for the Associated Press on the M23 rebellion and related issues.

She gained recognition for her investigation into British oil company Soco International’s activities in Virunga National Park, which featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary *Virunga* (2014), in which she appears. The work earned a One World Media award for Corruption Reporting. She was East Africa correspondent for *Le Figaro* from 2014 to 2016 and has contributed to outlets including Newsweek, France 24, Vice, Foreign Policy and the Washington Post. In 2019 she was nominated for the Mary Chirwa Award for Courageous Leadership.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Virunga* (2014), Fi1m 84, Actor — [page](https://film.one/film/virunga.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Virunga* (2014), Actor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/virunga.md)
- *L’essence des souvenirs: Itinéraire d’un apprenti parfumeur*, Director

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