Leslie Coutterand

Leslie Coutterand
Coutterand in 2012.
Born	(1984-10-20) October 20, 1984 Chamonix, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Actress, model, documentarian

Leslie Coutterand (born October 1984) is a French actress, model, writer, director and documentary filmmaker from Chamonix, France.^[1][2][3] Before graduating the drama college at Cours Florent in 2008,^[4][5] she was cast as Alexandra in the television series Deja Vu which filmed in Vietnam and Singapore. A series of TV and film roles followed, and then in 2011 she was cast as a series regular in the French police drama, Julie Lescaut as Mado.^[6][7] In 2013, she was cast alongside Stanley Tucci, Marcia Gay Harden, Taye Diggs and Rebecca Romijn in the film Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant.^[8]

Coutterand is also a model and has been featured in high-profile and international campaigns for clients including Nivea, Head and Shoulders, Joes Jeans and Louis Vuitton. In 2015 she was cast as the lead model in a nine-minute-long commercial for Persol Sunglasses directed by Bret Easton Ellis.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

In 2016, she and creative partner Marine Billet began filming their documentary I Love Therefore I Am.^[14][15][16] She spoke about the film, which is a global investigation into the concept of love and its impact on the world, at the TED conference in Lyon France on December 2016.^[17][18]

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