Suzanne Lindon

Suzanne Lindon (born 13 April 2000) is a French actress and filmmaker. In 2020, she made her directorial debut with Spring Blossom, which she also wrote. Early life Lindon was born in Paris on 13 April 2000, the daughter of César-winning actress Sandrine Kiberlain and actor Vincent Lindon, recipient of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. Through her father, she is the great-granddaughter of Raymond Lindon, who served as the magistrate and mayor of Étretat between 1929 and 1959, and the great niece of , director of Les Éditions de Minuit. Through her father, she is also the great-great-granddaughter of Fernande Citroën, who was the older sister of André Citroën and the wife of Alfred Lindon (born Abner Lindenbaum), a Jewish jeweler and modern art collector originally from Krakow, Poland. Through her paternal grandmother, Alix Dufaure, a journalist for Marie Claire, she is also a descendant of French Prime minister Jules Dufaure and Marshal Rémy Joseph Isidore Exelmans. In 2015, Lindon entered the elite Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, where she earned a baccalauréat L (littéraire) with highest honors (mention très bien). After a one-year preparatory course in drawing, Lindon entered the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. Career Lindon was largely kept out of the spotlight of her parents, who wanted her to have a private childhood. She made her first film appearance in 2016, as an extra in the short film Bonne figure (Smile), directed by her mother and starring Chiara Mastroianni as a famous actress who attends a cocktail party held in her honour. The film was presented as one of the closing films of Critics' Week at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.