Full Name: Clémence Poésy

City of Birth: Suburbs of Paris, France

Parents: Her mother is a French teacher. Her father is a theatre actor and director with his own company, Théatre Du Sable, currently on tour in Spain and Belgium.

Education: Continued schooling until the age of 16, when she got an agent and went on to study acting.

Biography: Clémence Poésy is a 21 year-old French actress, who first got started acting at the age of 14. She grew up around Paris with her mother, a teacher, and her father, a theatre actor and director. She has appeared in several French films; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is only the second English film she has been in. The other was "Gunpowder, Treason and Plot" (2004), in which she played the role of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Interesting Facts:
- She fell off of a horse at age seven, and did not ride one again until she was 20.
- She is fluent in English.
- She was born in the suburbs of Paris and has spent her life in and around the capital.
- She got her first part in a play from her father when she was 14. She had two lines.

Quotes:
- On playing Mary, Queen of Scots in "Gunpowder, Treason and Plot": "I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action! And I got all that and more as Mary."
- On playing Mary, Queen of Scots in "Gunpowder, Treason and Plot": "For two months I'd been a queen with everyone bowing whenever I came into a room. I could get used to that and I kept expecting my friends and family to be curtseying for me when I got home!"

Filmography:
-Le Grand Meaulnes (2006) -Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
-Les Animaux Domestiques
-Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (2004)
-Bienvenue chez les Rozes (2003)
-Été D'Olga
-Carnets d'ados - La vie quand même (2003)
-Tania Boréalis ou L'étoile d'un été (2001)
-Petite soeur (2001)

Taken from Veritaserum