Virginie Efira

Virginie Efira (born 5 May 1977) is a Belgian-French actress and former television presenter. She had her first leading role in the romantic comedy It Boy (2013). Efira subsequently received critical praise for her performance in the comedy drama In Bed with Victoria (2016), for which she received a Magritte Award for Best Actress as well as a César Award for Best Actress nomination. She then appeared in Paul Verhoeven's psychological thriller Elle (2016), the drama An Impossible Love (2018), the comedy drama Sibyl (2019) and the black comedy Bye Bye Morons (2020). In 2023, she won a César Award for Best Actress for Paris Memories (2022). Early life Efira was born on 5 May 1977 in the Brugmann district of Brussels, Belgium, and grew up in Schaerbeek. She is the daughter of Professor André Efira, an hemato-oncologist, and Carine Verelst. She has three siblings. Her parents divorced when she was 18. Efira is of partial Greek-Jewish descent. Efira studied Latin, math, psychology and social sciences in Brussels, where she lived until the age of 28 before moving to Paris. Career