Ariane Labed

Actress Ariane Labed

Labed in 2011, photo by Massimiliano Marino/bigstockphoto.com

Place of Birth: Athens, Greece

Date of Birth: 8 May, 1984

Ethnicity: French, possibly other

Ariane Labed is a Greek-born French actress and director. Her roles include the films Attenberg, Alps, Before Midnight, A Place on Earth, Love Island (2014), Fidelio: Alice’s Odyssey, Prejudice (2015), The Lobster, Despite the Night, Seances (2016), The Stopover, Assassin’s Creed, Mary Magdalene (2018), The Souvenir, The Souvenir Part II, Flux Gourmet, and The Vourdalak, and television’s Black Mirror: Men Against Fire, Ad Vitam, and Trigonometry. She has directed the film Olla.

Ariane was born in Athens, Greece, and grew up in Greece, Germany, and France. She is married to Greek director, producer, and screenwriter Yorgos Lanthimos.

Her parents are French. The surname Labed is often found in Eastern Europe, and is sometimes of Jewish origin. The surname can be of Arab (often Algerian) origin as well. It is not clear what Ariane’s full ancestry is.

5 Responses

  1. follers says:

    Interestingly, the surname “Labed” is not usually French. It’s Eastern European and/or Jewish.

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