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Zita Hanrot
Zita Hanrot in February 2016
Born (1989-12-07) 7 December 1989 (age 35)
Marseille, France
OccupationActress
Years active2004—present

Zita Hanrot (born 7 December 1989 in Marseille, France) is a French actress. She received widespread critical acclaim and later won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2016 for her role in the film, Fatima.

Early life and career

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Zita Hanrot was born in 1989, to an English mother of Jamaican descent and a French father.[1] Her father is a graphic designer and her mother is an illustrator and graphic designer. Many of her father's relatives are set designers, landscapers, or architects. She grew up with an interest in artistic careers and took classes in classical dance as a child. After graduating from high school in Marseille, she enrolled in Art History classes, originally intending to pursue a career similar to her parents. However, she disliked the courses and later dropped out after studying for three months. Instead, she enrolled in private theatre classes at the Ecole D Art dramatique Sylvia Roche in Marseille with the intention of leaving her hometown to pursue acting professionally. She successfully auditioned for a place at École du Jeu in Paris at aged 20. She lived in an eight square metre apartment and worked evening shifts at a café.[2] In 2011, she was accepted into the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, France's national drama school, in Paris.[2] She graduated in 2014.[1] Hanrot appeared in commercials such as the French army campaign (2006) alongside the French actor Karl E. Landler. She has cited the actress Béatrice Dalle as an inspiration, particularly for her role in the 1986 film Betty Blue.[3]

Before graduating from the Conservatory, she was cast in her first film role in 2012 in Radiostars, directed by Romain Lévy, in which she plays the younger sister of Manu Payet.[1] She subsequently played minor roles in The New Girlfriend in 2013, and Eden in 2014.[1] Her breakthrough role came in 2015's Fatima (2015), for which she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress.[4] In the film, directed by Philippe Faucon, she plays Nesrine, a medical student and the daughter of a north-African immigrant, determined to improve her position in life.[4]

Following the success of Fatima, Hanrot filmed a role in Marie Garel Weiss's directorial debut film called, La Fête est finie ("The party is over" in English) in 2016. The movie was released in 2017.[5] In June 2019, she began filming the ecological whistleblower drama, Red Soil. Hanrot plays an occupational nurse who uncovers corruption at the chemical factory where she works.[6] The movie was later released in the UK for streaming services on 16 August 2021.[7]

From 2018 to 2022, she starred in three seasons of the Netflix original French-language comedy, Plan Coeur (marketed as "The Hook Up Plan" in English-speaking regions). A special lockdown episode was filmed in France in 2020 and highlighted the changes in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]

In 2020, she was among 10 actors selected for the European Film Promotion's European Shooting Star award, which highlights up-and-coming film talent across Europe.[9]

In 2024, Harper's Bazaar Australia praised her work in the French fashion drama television series, La Maison, which streamed worldwide on AppleTV+. Hanrot stated that her character in the series, "Paloma", a Berlin-based fashion designer, was inspired by British fashion designer, Alexander McQueen. To prepare for the role, she watched documentaries on fashion history with a specific focus on Alexander McQueen's career. Hanrot is a fan of Alexander McQueen. La Maison has been compared to the Max drama, Succession, with critics dubbing it, "The French Succession".[10]

In 2024, she starred in the biopic, The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, as the titular character; the film was screened at TIFF in Canada and at the Lincoln Center in New York City in the autumn of 2024.[11][12][13][14]

Personal life

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Her brother, Idrissa Hanrot, is also an actor, starring notably in the 2016 film Five.[15] In April 2022, Hanrot revealed on her personal Instagram account that she was expecting her first child.[16] In an interview with Chanel, she said that she enjoys reading and cited works by French philosopher and psychoanalyst, Anne Dufourmantelle, as some of her favourite books. In that same interview, she revealed that her father's garden in Marseille is one of her favourite places to read and expressed that she would like to play Haruki Murakami's character, "Aomame", from his 1Q84 trilogy or "Nora" from Henrik Isben's 1879 play, A Doll's House. Hanrot previously studied Isben while attending drama school in Paris during her early 20s.[17] She cites Edward Scrissorhands as a film that frightened her as a child and her favourite director is Danish filmmaker, Lars von Trier.[18] She is fluent in English.[9] She lived in Marseille from birth until aged 20 and resides in Paris as of 2024.[19]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
2004 Le Tuteur Malika TV series
2012 Radiostars Jennifer Film debut
2013 Run Dounia Short film
2014 Eden Anaïs
2014 The New Girlfriend Restaurant waitress
2014 Errance The girl on the train Short film
2015 Rose et le soldat Rose Telefilm
2015 Nuit/Béton Morgane Short film
2015 Chefs Nadia TV mini-series
2015 Fatima Nesrine César Award for Most Promising Actress
2015 Chez Victoire Iris Telefilm
2015 Point du Jour Sabrina Short film
2016 Le Gang des Antillais Linda
2016 De sas en sas
2016 T.A.N.K. Zoé 10 episodes; television series
2017 La fête est finie Sihem French film
2017 K.O. Dina French film
2018 Paul Sanchez est revenu! Marion French film
2018-2022 The Hook Up Plan Elsa Netflix original series - 21 Episodes (3 seasons)
2019 The Swallows of Kabul Zunaira (voice)
2020 School Life Samia Netflix Original
2020 Red Soil Nour Hamadi Film; known as Rouge in French-language markets
2021 Love, Death & Robots Hirald Season 2, episode "Snow in the Desert"
2022 Angry Annie Hélène French film
2023 Lee Ady Fidelin [fr]
2024 La Maison [fr] Paloma Castel AppleTV+ original series (Lead role)
2024 The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire Suzanne Césaire Titular role/Lead
2025 Ad Vitam Manon Netflix original film[20]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Nahmias, Clara (23 February 2016). "César 2016 : Qui es-tu Zita Hanrot ?". Premiere (in French). Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Zita Hanrot : l'année de la confirmation | Les Inrocks". www.lesinrocks.com (in French). 24 February 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  3. ^ Paulet, Alicia; Develey, Alice (26 February 2016). "Zita Hanrot : "J'ai l'impression d'avoir pris une bourrasque dans la tête"". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Zita Hanrot, César du meilleur espoir féminin pour "Fatima"". Le Parisien (in French). 26 February 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  5. ^ "La Fête est finie: The party's over for Zita Hanrot and Clémence Boisnard". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. 13 September 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Zita Hanrot plays a whistleblower in Farid Bentoumi's Red Soil". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  7. ^ Le, Phuong (9 August 2021). "Red Soil review – father and daughter clash in heartbreaking eco-thriller". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  8. ^ "Mieux qu'un plan cul : la saison 3 de Plan Coeur sur Netflix". Le Bonbon (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  9. ^ a b Simon, Alissa (18 February 2020). "EFP European Shooting Stars: The Best and Brightest Hit Berlin". Variety. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  10. ^ Peppin, Hayley (20 September 2024). "Zita Hanrot talks us through the 'Succession' of the fashion world". Harper's Bazaar Australia. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  11. ^ "A fragmented film portrait of Suzanne Césaire, the feminist intellectual who influenced Surrealism and Négritude". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 4 October 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  12. ^ "The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire review: an anti-biopic". BFI. 6 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  13. ^ "The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire". TIFF. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  14. ^ "The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  15. ^ Louaguef, Sarah (15 March 2016). "Les stars réunies à l'avant-première de "Five"". Paris Match (in French). Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  16. ^ "Zita Hanrot : la star de Plan Coeur enceinte de son premier enfant". Yahoo News (in French). 23 April 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  17. ^ "Literary Rendez vous Zita Hanrot". Chanel. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  18. ^ Infrarouge (9 February 2018). "Zita Hanrot, le charme ambivalent". Infrarouge (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  19. ^ Fur, Antoine Le (16 December 2024). "Zita HANROT, actrice haute couture". Toutma (in French). Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  20. ^ Harvey, Dennis (13 January 2025). "'Ad Vitam' Review: Guillaume Canet Tries to Launch a Netflix Action Franchise in Overstuffed Thriller". Variety. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
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