Early life

Casta was born in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France. Her mother, Line Blin, is from Normandy. Her father, Dominique Casta, is from Corsica. She has an older brother, Jean-Baptiste, and a younger sister, Marie-Ange. She spent her childhood in Normandy and Corsica.

Career

Casta's modeling career reportedly began when she was discovered by the photographer Frederic Cresseaux, during a family holiday in her father's native Corsica, at age 15. After her unexpected registration by Jeeby, Casta was elected Miss Lumio 93.

Casta has been the L'Oreal Paris brand ambassador since 1998. She has been featured in Guess? Jeans, Tommy Hilfiger, Miu Miu, Pepe Jeans, Alberta Ferretti and XOXO ad campaigns. Casta has appeared on over 100 magazine covers including Victoria's Secret catalogs, Harper's Bazaar, ELLE magazine, and Vogue magazine. She walked down the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000. Casta was one of the company's signature Victoria' Secret Angels from 1998 to 2002. She also appeared in three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues, Rolling Stone, and the Pirelli Calendar 1999 by Herb Ritts and 2000 by Annie Leibovitz.

In 1999, Casta was ranked first in a national survey ordered by the French Mayors Association to decide who should be the new model for the bust of Marianne, an allegorical symbol of the French Republic, which stands inside every French town hall.

Casta became the focus of a controversy when, after being selected to be Marianne, newspapers in Britain and France reported that she had relocated to London where taxes on high earners are lower. Casta's father said she went to London for professional reasons; on a TV show, she also said that she rented a flat in London to be near her boyfriend. The French minister of the interior spoke about Casta on the radio; comparing the advantages of living in France with regard to the drawbacks of London after political opponents used Casta's relocation to London as an opportunity to criticise the government.

She is the face of fragrances Chanel's Allure, Givenchy's Forbidden flower, Cacharel's Promise, Bulgari's BLV II, Ralph Lauren's Notorious, and on 15 June 2012 D&G's Pour Femme shot in Erice by Mario Testino. The Parisians could follow her Adventures in the Galeries Lafayette by Jean-Paul Goude. For Christmas 2011, Peter Lindbergh shot True Love, the very thought of Casta at the summit of Manhattan and between the snowy lions of marble of the New York Public Library for Tiffany & Co. On 10 March 2010, in Paris, she opened the Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2010 fashion show. On 27 September 2010, she closed the Roberto Cavalli SS 2011 fashion show in Milan.

For her first movie, Casta has made forays into the blockbuster Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar directed by Claude Zidi, a live-action film of the comic book Asterix; in which Obelix, portrayed by Gerard Depardieu, plays a love interest for Falbala. Casta appeared in Les Ames Fortes, a dramatic film directed by Raul Ruiz. Her interpretation of Brigitte Bardot in the movie Gainsbourg (Vie heroique) revealed the actress who received her first nomination at the Cesar Award. Casta served as a jury member at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in 2012.

Political involvement

On 6 April 2008, Casta demonstrated in a White March of nonviolent protest to ask for the immediate release of Ingrid Betancourt, presidential candidate kidnapped since 2002 by the FARC. On 30 April 2002, she attended the demonstration Vive la République after the first round election of the 2002 presidential election.

Personal life

On 19 October 2001, Casta gave birth to her daughter Sahteene, whose father is the photographer Stephane Sednaoui. Casta was engaged to Italian actor Stefano Accorsi. The couple has two children: a son named Orlando, born on 21 September 2006, and a daughter named Athena, born on 29 August 2009.

As of 2015, she is in a relationship with French actor Louis Garrel.

Filmography

Director, Screenwriter, Producer

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Box Office
2016	En Moi	Director, Writer, Producer	Cannes Critics' Week closing short

Actress

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1999	Asterix et Obelix contre Cesar (Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar)	Falbala	Claude Zidi
2000	La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle)	Lea Delmas	Thierry Binisti	TV film for France2
	Gitano	Lucia Junco	Manuel Palacios
2001	Les ames fortes (Savage Souls)	Therese	Raoul Ruiz
2002	Rue des plaisirs (Love Street)	Marion	Patrice Leconte	Performs on the soundtrack
2003	Errance (Wandering)	Lou	Damien Odoul
2004	Luisa Sanfelice	Luisa Sanfelice	Paolo Taviani Vittorio Taviani	TV film for France2, RAI Uno
2006	Le grand appartement (The Big Apartment)	Francesca Cigalone	Pascal Thomas
	La Deraison du Louvre (The Irrationality of the Louvre)	The young woman	Ange Leccia	Short film without dialog shot in the Louvre museum for which Casta was for the first time in cover of Les Cahiers du Cinema.
	Nymphea (Nymphaea)	The naiad	Ange Leccia	Short film
2007	Le Petit Monde de Charlotte (Charlotte's Web)	Charlotte A. Cavatica	Gary Winick
2008	Nes en 68 (Born in 68)	Catherine	Olivier Ducastel Jacques Martineau	Cabourg: Golden Swann of the Best Actress
	La jeune fille et les loups (The Maiden and the Wolves)	Angele Amblard	Gilles Legrand
2009	Visage (Face) ? (Chinese)	Salome	Tsai Ming-Liang
	Fleurs dans le miroir, lune dans l'eau (Flowers in the mirror, moon in the water)	herself, Salome	Francois Lunel
2010	Gainsbourg (Vie heroique) (Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life)	Brigitte Bardot	Joann Sfar	Nominated for the Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actress Performs Gainsbourg's songs on the soundtrack
2011	La nouvelle guerre des boutons (The War of the Buttons)	Simone	Christophe Barratier
	Derriere les murs (Behind the Walls)	Suzanne	Julien Lacombe Pascal Sid
	Островът (Ostrovat) (The Island)	Sophie	Kamen Kalev	First film with English dialogue
	Rio	Perla (Jewel)	Carlos Saldanha
2012	Arbitrage	Julie Cote	Nicholas Jarecki	First American film
	Do not disturb	Anna	Yvan Attal
2013	Une histoire d'amour (Tied)	The young woman	Helene Fillieres
2014	Rio 2	Perla (Jewel)	Carlos Saldanha	First sequel
	A Woman as a Friend	Claudia	Giovanni Veronesi
	Des lendemains qui chantent	Noemie Archambault	Nicolas Castro
	Sous les jupes des filles	Agathe	Audrey Dana

Music videos

Year	Singer	Song	Director	Notes
2010	Rihanna	Te Amo	Anthony Mandler
2001	Alizée	Gourmandis	Herb Ritts
1999	Chris Isaak	Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing	Herb Ritts
1998	I Muvrini Sting	Terre d'Oru(English)(Corsican)(Greek)	Stefano Salvati

DVD and Blu-ray

Year	Title	Distribution	Language	Region	Notes
2007	Laetitia Casta	StudioCanal	French	2	with Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Berge, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Dominique Issermann, Sylvie Lancrenon, Jamel Debbouze, Omar Sy & Fred Testot, Frederic Lopez, Jean-Paul Goude, Jacques Weber, Claude Zidi

Theatre

Year	Play	Role	Playwright	Stage Director	Theatre	City	Review
2008	Elle t'attend (She is waiting for you)	Anna	Florian Zeller	Florian Zeller	the Madeleine	Paris 8th	Madame Figaro
2005 2004	Ondine	Ondine	Jean Giraudoux	Jacques Weber	Tour in regions Antoine - Simone Berriau	Ludwigshafen Paris 10th	L'Humanite

Humanitarian action

Year	Association	Comment
2010	Porteurs d'Eau (French)	Water-carrier is an initiative of France Libertes - Danielle-Mitterrand foundation (French)
2006	Rose Marie Claire (French)	Casta among Claire Chazal, Isabelle Adjani, Axelle Red, Monica Bellucci and Tina Kieffer with the Rose Marie Claire (French) are shot by Jeff Manzetti for the association Toutes a l'ecole (French)
2005	Action Innocence	She belongs to the Committee of support of Action Innocence to protect the children from the dangers of the Internet.
2004	Action Contre la Faim	Casta drew a winged blue heart on a plate for the bidding of 19 November 2004 to help Action against Hunger
2002	Occi, paese rinascitu (Corsican)	In the headquarters of the association Occi recovered village at the Caffe di a Mossa of Lumio in Corsica, Casta helped to reconstruct the old chapel of Annunziata in the abandoned village of Occi. Watch the Occi video on YouTube by official Korsika.fr

Awards and recognition

Year	Award	By	Result
2012	Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres(French) (Knight in Order of Arts and of Letters)	France Minister of Culture and of Communication
2011	Nominated for the Cesar Award of the Best Supporting Actress as Brigitte Bardot in Gainsbourg (Vie heroique)	Cesar Awards	Nominated
2008	Golden Swann of the Best Actress as Catherine in Born in 68	Cabourg Film Festival (French)	Won
2001	Ranked No. 1 Top 50 Most Beautiful Women	Askmen.com
1999	Marianne for the 21st century	82nd congress of AMF, the French Mayors Association	Won

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