Laetitia Casta

About Laetitia Casta

Laetitia Casta is a French actress, director and model. She began modeling in the 1990s and later moved into acting in film and theater.

In 1993, at age 15, Casta was discovered by a talent scout on a Corsican beach. She then signed with Madison Models and appeared as a GUESS? Girl in a series of advertising campaigns. By the mid-1990s, she was working internationally, and designers including Yves Saint Laurent and Jean-Paul Gaultier championed her. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1998 to 2000 and signed a long-term contract as a global spokesperson for L'Oréal Paris. She appeared on over 250 magazine covers, including editions of Vogue, Elle and Harper's Bazaar. In 1999, the French Mayors Association chose Casta as the model for the bust of Marianne, the national symbol of the French Republic. She left her Victoria's Secret contract to maintain control over her image and pursue acting.

Casta made her feature film debut as Falbala in the comedy Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar (1999). She received a César Award nomination for playing Brigitte Bardot in Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010). She starred alongside Richard Gere in the American thriller Arbitrage (2012) and appeared on stage in productions of Ondine and The House of Bernarda Alba. In 2016, she made her directorial debut with the short film En moi (In Me), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Casta is of Corsican French, Italian and Norman French descent. She has four children: a daughter with photographer Stéphane Sednaoui, a son and a daughter from a long-term relationship with Italian actor Stefano Accorsi, and a son with French actor and director Louis Garrel, to whom she was married from 2017 to 2025.