Ariane Labed
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.
Interestingly, the surname “Labed” is not usually French. It’s Eastern European and/or Jewish.
Is it though? LaBed…
http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/labed
It is virtually non-existent in Eastern Europe, according to this site.
Those web sites aren’t very good sources, especially with their confused name variations.
“Labeds” on Familysearch turn up heavily from Eastern Europe, although there’s one match from France.
There are also many Arab “Labeds” listed, so that could fit with the Algeria option on your web site.
Either way, I doubt that the surname is of French origin. The one French “Labed” I found is probably an anomaly.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVGD-9YL
it’s Algerian:
http://www.nameslist.org/surname/Labed
http://geneasud.20minutes-blogs.fr/archive/2008/09/30/les-991-patronymes-les-plus-repandus-dans-l-est-algerien.html
http://www.pageshalal.fr/prenom-musulman/prenoms/labed/index-fr.html
I also used familysearch and came up with more Arabs with that last name than Eastern Europeans. Lebed would be more common in E. Europe, and the variants Lebedintsev, Lebedev, etc.