Actress and director Mélanie Laurent quickly climbed the ladder of success
thanks to her performances in Quentin Tarantino's films De battre mon coeur
s'est arrêté (2005), Je vais bien ne t'en fais pas (César for Best Actress in
2007) and Inglorious Basterds (2009). In 2011, she launched her singing career
with an album concocted by Damien Rice and Joel Shearer.