Louise Bourgoin (; born Ariane Louise Bourgoin, 28 November 1981) is a French

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and

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Life and career

She was born on 28 November 1981 in

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine departme ...

. Bourgoin's parents, both secondary level teachers, encouraged her to pursue a stable career. She studied for five years at the

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in Rennes. She became a

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teacher while simultaneously beginning to work as a

; some of her most notable early work as a model was for the photographer Ian Sanderson. After graduating in 2004, Bourgoin became a presenter for the television program ''Kawaï !'' on Filles TV channel. Two years later, she made a brief appearance on

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. At the same time, she worked with TV presenter Marc Lacombe on a pilot program for PlayStation TV. This television channel never started broadcasting, and the pilot was never distributed. In 2006, she worked as the weather girl for '' Le Grand Journal'' with

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, which broadcast nightly on

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. To avoid audiences confusing her for fellow ''Le Grand Journal'' presenter, Ariane Massenet, , she chose the name "Louise Bourgoin" as a tribute to her favorite sculptor, Louise Bourgeois. In 2007, she was offered a role in a film, playing a television weather girl in '' The Girl From Monaco''. Subsequently, she played in several films including ''

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'' directed by

Luc Besson Luc Paul Maurice Besson (; born 18 March 1959) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed or produced the films ''Subway'' (1985), '' The Big Blue'' (1988), and '' La Femme Nikita'' (1990). Besson is associated with the ' ...

and ''

Black Heaven , also referred to as ''The Legend of Black Heaven'' and ''Kacho-Ōji'', is a Japanese anime television series conceptualized by Hiroki Hayashi and produced by Pioneer Corporation, Pioneer LDC Inc., AIC and A.P.P.P. It is directed by Yasuhit ...

'' directed by Gilles Marchand, a film that was screened Out of Competition at the

2010 Cannes Film Festival The 63rd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 2010, in Cannes, France. The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946. It consists of having films scr ...

Personal life

In December 2015, it was announced that Bourgoin and electronic musician Tepr were expecting their first child. Bourgoin gave birth to her son, Étienne, on 7 April 2016.

Filmography

References

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