Mélusine Mayance (born 21 March 1999 in Paris) is a French actress. She is best known for her role in the 2010 French-Language film ''

Sarah's Key ''Sarah's Key'' () is a 2010 French drama film directed and co-written by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The film is an adaptation of the 2006 novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. The film alternates between a young girl Sarah ( Mélusine Mayance) in 1942 and ...

'', in which she portrayed the childhood version of the story's main character 'Sarah Starzynski' (whose life story is uncovered and told by

Kristin Scott Thomas Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994) and the Olivi ...

's character many decades after the end of the second world war). Known in French as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the

historical fiction Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the Setting (narrative), setting of particular real past events, historical events. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literatur ...

film is set in 1942 France, in the midst of the second world war. Mélusine's character is a young Jewish child whose family is rounded up and arrested in downtown Paris during the ''

Vel' d'Hiv Roundup The Vel' d'Hiv' Roundup ( ; from , an abbreviation of ) was a mass arrest of Jews in Paris on 16–17 July 1942 by Vichy French police at the behest of the German occupational authorities. Occurring during World War II, Jews arrested during ...

'' before being sent to

Auschwitz Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschw ...

for extermination.Official Website for Sarah's Key
/ref> Mayance rose to success while starring in films such as Vive Les Vacances! and Ricky in which she plays the half-sister of an infant boy who grows a pair of wings.

Filmography

* 2009 : '' Vive les vacances !'' (TV) : ''Alice'' * 2009 : '' Ricky'', by

François Ozon François Ozon (; born 15 November 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter. Ozon is considered one of the most important modern French filmmakers. His films are characterized by aesthetic beauty, sharp satirical humor and a free-wheeli ...

: ''Lisa'' * 2009 : '' Les associés'' (TV) : ''Émilie'' * 2010 : ''

La peau de chagrin ''La Peau de chagrin'' (, ''The Skin of Shagreen''), known in English as ''The Magic Skin'' and ''The Wild Ass's Skin'', is an 1831 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tel ...

'' (TV), by

Alain Berliner Alain Berliner (born 21 February 1963) is a Belgian film director best known for the 1997 film '' Ma vie en rose'', which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is a Gold ...

: ''La Mendiante'' * 2010 : '' Elle s'appelait Sarah'', by

Gilles Paquet-Brenner Gilles Paquet-Brenner (born 14 September 1974) is a French director and screenwriter. He is the son of the opera singer Ève Brenner. Paquet-Brenner's first feature film in 2001, ''Pretty Things'', won an award at the Deauville American Film Fe ...

: ''Sarah Starzynski'' * 2010 : '' Un soupçon d'innocence'' (TV), by director Olivier Péray : ''Julie'' * 2011 : '' Bouquet final'' (TV), by

Josée Dayan Josée Dayan (born 6 October 1943 in Toulouse, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Life Dayan grew up in Algiers, Algeria, where her father Albert Dagnant, who came from a Jewish family, worked as a television direc ...

: ''Charlotte'' * 2013 : '' Les gamins'' : ''Mimi Zozo'' * 2013 : '' Michael Kohlhaas'' : ''Lisbeth'' * 2013 : ''Brotherhood of Tears'' : ''Juliette Chevalier'' * 2014 : ''Ça va passer... Mais quand?'' (TV film) : ''Paola'' * 2017 : ''Marie de Bourgogne'' (TV): Jeanne de France

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayance, Melusine Living people French child actresses French film actresses French television actresses 1999 births Actresses from Paris