Who is The Lady in the car, Freya Mavor? – Le Figaro

Joann Sfar said that she is “the new Adjani.” But who really is this Scottish 21 years face dotted with freckles?

In the last film of Joann Sfar, it radiates the screen . Flamboyant hair, aquamarine eyes, face dotted with freckles: Freya Mavor is beautiful, undoubtedly. But it is not that. The Scottish 21, still unknown in France, has more than one string to his bow.

Born in Glasgow, Freya Mavor bathes in the theater world at a young age because it is the daughter of Scottish author James Mavor. His family toured Europe, from Greece to Turkey, and the young Freya spent part of his childhood in La Rochelle. There she learned French, she speaks fluently now.

It begins to consider an acting career at the age of 10, after watching Shining , Stanley Kubrick. It engages in theater studies and got his first major role in the series Skins at the age of 17 years. She interprets Mini McGuiness unbearable plague playing her charms to get his way.

After several roles in the British miniseries, she landed the lead role in the latest film by Joann Sfar, an adaptation of the novel by Sébastien Japrisot black, The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a gun . She camped there Dany, a rather strange stenographer who finds himself involved in a murder story.

In the coming months, the young woman take the features of the Virgin Mary in the new comedy Yvan Attal. She will soon begin shooting the romantic comedy Modern Life is Rubbish .