Known For: Acting
Born: —
Place of Birth: Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Mélanie Leray

Mélanie Leray is a French actress and theater director. After the school of the National Theater of Brittany where from 1991 to 1994 she took lessons from B. Bayen and H. P. Cloos, Mélanie Leray entered the Théâtre des Lucioles where she was an actress until 1997 with directors such as Christophe Lemaître. , Jean Deloche, Gilles Dao and François Rancillac. The same year, she also began a career in the cinema, under the aegis of Western by Manuel Poirier, a film crowned with the Jury Prize at Cannes. Her business card is also marked by high standards since she has worked under the direction of some of the most talented directors of contemporary French cinema: Xavier Beauvois (Selon Matthieu, Le Petit Lieutenant), Marion Vernoux (Reines d' one day) and Benoît Jacquot (No Scandal). In the early 2000s, she began to flourish in theater directing, continuing work with the Rennes penitentiary c…