33 year old French actress, Elodie Bouchez is one of cinema’s most intriguing new faces.  Born in Montreuil, France in 1973, Bouchez modeled as a child when she was only 13.  Her face is striking and beautiful.  Her angelic good looks are unmistakable and change so drastically from film to film; her fans sometimes have difficulty recognizing her.  “She can be drop-dead gorgeous one minute and waywardly avant-garde looking the next,” notes Kali Ryan of the Foreign Film Review.   
     At the age of 16, Bouchez auditioned for her first starring role in a feature film.  Legendary French singer, Serge Gainsbourg was so impressed with her performance that he gave her a starring role in his 1990 film, Stan the Flasher.  Other successes quickly followed: La Cahier Vole in 1992; Les Roseaux sauvages/ The Wild Reeds in 1994, for which she won the Most Promising Actress Cesar at Cannes; Full Speed in 1996; the critically acclaimed The Dream life of Angels in 1998, for which she won her second Cesar for Best Actress, an honor she shared with fellow French actress Natacha Regnier that same year; CQ in 2001; and the current role of covert assassin, Renee Rienne in ABC’s spy-action drama, Alias in 2006. 
   Elodie Bouchez recently moved to Los Angeles to further her career in American cinema and television.   We can’t wait to see what this French beauty decides to tackle next.   

Daniel Hatcher