Biography
Rebecca Dayan is a French actress and model. She was born on 17 April 1984 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera and raised there before her family moved to Nice. She studied art and theatre at the fine arts school Villa Thiole, then moved to Paris at the age of seventeen, where she worked in fashion design and as a model.
Dayan relocated to New York City in 2009 to pursue screen acting. Her early film roles included small parts in From Paris with Love (2010), Limitless (2011) and Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012). She appeared as Sister Emanuel in Novitiate (2017) and as Sarah Bernhardt in Tesla (2020). She portrayed Elsa Peretti in the Netflix miniseries Halston (2021) and played Frances Webb in Bonjour Tristesse (2024).
