Céleste Brunnquell
Biography
Céleste Brunnquell began acting at the age of 11. In 2018, Sarah Suco offered her the lead role in her debut feature, The Dazzled. Her deeply moving performance earned her an acting award at the Sarlat Film Festival and a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress. She then appeared in the series In Treatment, by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. In 2021, she acted in The Origin of Evil, directed by Sébastien Marnier, and in Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan’s debut feature, Spare Keys, selected at the San Sebastian Film Festival. In 2023, she starred in Erwan Le Duc’s No Love Lost, presented at La Semaine de la Critique, a role for which she was again nominated for a César Award for Best Female Revelation. She stars in Antoine Raimbault’s Smoke Signals as well as in Céline Rouzet’s debut feature For Night Will Come, and Jessica Palud’s Being Maria (presented in the Cannes Premiere strand at Cannes 2024). She will soon be seen in Rembrandt by Pierre Schoeller.
