Esther Garrel
☼ Born on 18 December 1991, in Paris, France
BiographyEsther Garrel is a French actress known for her work in Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name (2017) and Lover for a Day (2017), which premiered at 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
She is the youngest member of a family long associated with French cinema, as she is granddaughter of actor Maurice Garrel, daughter of director Philippe Garrel and actress/director Brigitte Sy and sister of actor Louis Garrel.
Esther made her first appearance on screen at the age of eight in a short film by Gérard Courant (Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice (1999)).
In 2008, French filmmaker Christophe Honoré cast her with her first role in "The Beautiful Person (2008)," a modernized adaptation of "La Princesse de Clèves".
She starred in "The Apollonide," where she played a prostitute, and "17 Girls (2011)," where she played a pregnant teenager, both premiered at 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
With some of the top French actors of her generation, she starred in the short film "Après Suzanne (2016)", selected for Official competition at 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
She recently worked with American filmmaker Nathan Silver on "Thirst Street (2017)," which premiered at 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival and The Great Pretender which premiered at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
She speaks French, English and Italian.
In the role of actor
Call Me by Your Name (02/02/2018)
A teenage boy develops a relationship with his father’s research assistant in Call Me by Your Name. Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is a 17 year old boy living with his archaeologist father (Michael Stuhlbarg) and mother (Amira Casar) in Northern Italy. In the summer of 1983, graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer) comes to live with the family, […]