Ophélie Bau is a French actress best known for her roles in Abdellatif Kechiche's trilogy of films Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2017), Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo (2019) and Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due (2025).
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Early life
Bau was born Ophélie Baufle in Besançon, where she was crowned Miss of this city in 2014.
Career
Bau made her acting debut in the 2017 film Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno. While the film received mixed reviews Bau's performance was widely praised. She won the 2019 Lumière Award for Best Female Revelation for her role in the film and was nominated in the same category at the César awards.
Bau's next movie was the 2019 sequel to Mektoub, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo. Shortly before the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 news broke that the film featured an unsimulated sex scene between her and a co-star, which the two had been pressured into filming by the film's director Abdellatif Kechiche. It was also revealed that Bau and her co-star had been intoxicated during the filming of the scene, also due to pressure from the director. Bau attended the premiere of the film but walked out of the screening and did not attend a press conference for the film. In 2020 in an interview she revealed she walked away from the premiere because she had asked Kechiche to allow her to view the sex scene in private before it was screened in public, a request which he denied.
As of 2024 Bau has appeared in another two French feature films, Vaurien and Fires in the Dark.
Filmography
Film
2018: Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche : Ophélie
2019: Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche : Ophélie
2020: Grace (short film), directed by Marion Filloque et Ophélie Bau : Grace
2020 : Vaurien, directed by Peter Dourountzis : Maya
2020 : Fake (short film), directed by Lou-Brice Léonard : Sarah
2020 : Des feux dans la nuit, directed by Dominique Lienhard : Maya
2021: Free Like Air d'Abdolreza Kahani : Amber
2021 : Loving (short film), directed by Thibaut Buccellato :
2021 : La Vie d'avant (short film), directed by Anaïs Deban : Délia
2023: Le Marchand de sable, directed by Steve Achiepo : Aurore
2023 : La Grande Ourse (short film), directed by Anthony Bajon : Alexia
2023 : La sirène se marie (short film), directed by Achraf Arjaoui : Jeanne
2025: Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche : Ophélie
Television
2023 : B.R.I., by Jérémie Guez : Vanessa
2024 : Fortune de France, by Christopher Thompson : Franchou
Music video
2021: Disiz: Casino