Anna Biola, daughter of Benjamin Biola and Chiara Mastroianni. the legacy of the ball child

He has his father’s nose. mother’s gentle gaze. Benjamin Biola and Chiara Mastroianni’s daughter, Anna Biola, will take to the steps of the Cannes Film Festival this Thursday to present the film. Rosalie, by Stephanie DiGiusto, in which she responds to her father. A great first for this young 19-year-old actress who has always aspired in this world anyway. With the support of both his parents under the sun of the Croisette, he will be joined by his grandmother, the famous actress of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve during the said competition. A magical, frightening family heirloom that this ball kid seems ready to endorse.

At Cannes, Chiara Mastroianni gave us a few snaps to snap

To prove himself

“You’d have to be high to not understand how lucky I am to belong to this family that has passed on so many treasures to me. First the culture. But also the passion for art, music and cinema,” he declared Madame Figaro before the ceremony. But, although aware of her status as “Nepo baby”, the nickname given to “sons and daughters” who contribute to the cultural industry, Anna Biolai nurtures more and more the desire to break free from this golden cage, eventually becoming . , name

His father likes to remember that. Anna Biolai is, of course, the granddaughter of Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (The good life), but also that of Biola’s, Jacques and Chantal’s grandparents, musicians living modestly in Beaujolais. “The world is constantly reminding him of who he is. But she is also my daughter and my parents’ granddaughter. He is fully aware of these more provincial and more famous roots,” explained the 50-year-old singer who performed the song. Your legacy, written for him. Remember: “It’s not your fault, it’s your heritage (…) It’s not your fault, it’s your flesh, your blood, we have to deal with it, or rather, without it.”

He thus likes to remove himself from easy criticism and focus only on his daughter’s game filmed “behind his back”. Rosalie. “I immediately looked at her, like other actresses, that’s all (…) I don’t know if it’s in the genes, and I’m not talking about myself, but she has a real ease when she plays comedy. It’s quite impressive to watch,” he said in an interview TeleStar:last December.

Fan of Truffaut

A sentiment shared by actress Anne Marivin, who responded to him in the TV movie Life, love, immediately, which was released in January 2023, one of Anna Biolay’s first appearances in front of the camera. She plays Amelie, a young girl with cystic fibrosis. “Anna is an extremely sensitive, intelligent and super educated actress. He comes with such a heritage that he sometimes feels unsettling. It must exist. He is made for this job. If he continues on this path, I predict a good course for him. A course that his mother, Chiara Mastroianni, seems fully prepared to accept. “Many actors hope that their children will not follow this path. Not me,” he recently told us.

Where does this particular talent come from if not in his genes? Perhaps he also owes them the hours spent watching “everything he could” in a rich and hand-picked movie library. A fan of Truffaut, with special mention to her grandmother Catherine Deneuve, Anna Biolay has effortlessly forged a strong and sharp cultural identity. His latest favorite: film The pointby Darren Aronofsky, which won Brendan Fraser the 2023 Oscar for Best Actor.

Bambi music

Child of divorced parents. Benjamin Biolai and Chiara Mastroianni called it quits in 2009 after seven years of marriage, and then we imagine the life of a young Anna, tiptoeing every two weeks at her mother’s movie theater or at the box office vinyl records from her father. . An avid reader of “Especially for Stefan Zweig”, he is also a great music lover who has managed to find some solace in music and his father’s first love. He who loves to sing and who is particularly sensitive to punk, still practices under the pseudonym Bambi.

Thus, among his idols, Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain, “free spirits and locked in themselves.” But also Bob Dylan, the Beatles and rappers like Tupac or The Notorious BIG, showing all his eclecticism. Endowed with great sensitivity, Anna Biolai, who likes to walk in the rain, dreaming with her music on the streets of Paris, would also be a “born singer”, her father claims. He also contributed to his album Big prize!was released in 2020 and was widely praised by critics, still being called Bambi.

Visibly endowed, therefore, we may find him ascending the steps of another ceremony in a few years; The Victoires de la Musique ceremony, perhaps an album to present. His legacy?

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