Lola Naymark

French actress Lola Naymark made her on-screen debut at age 9, playing the role of Kicup in two made-for-television movies directed by Roger Vadim: "La Nouvelle Tribu," aired in 1996, and "Un Coup de Baguette Magique," aired the following year. In 1998 Naymark won a part in Bunny Godillot's "Riches, Belles, Etc.," in which a young girl, alone in a hotel while her wealthy, famous mother is away, attempts to understand the meaning of being a woman by interviewing women in the hotel. Her first leading role came in Éléonore Faucher's award-winning 2004 drama "A Common Thread." Naymark plays Claire Moutiers, an unmarried pregnant 17-year-old who takes a job as an assistant for Madame Mélikian, a seamstress for haute couture designers. The part earned her the Lumiere Award for Most Promising Young Actress as well as a nomination for a César Award. In 2009, Naymark landed the role of Monique Stern in director Robert Guédiguian's historical war drama "The Army of Crime." The film is set in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France, where Naymark's character belongs to a mismatched crew of resistance fighters led by poet and Armenian exile Missak Manouchian. Naymark has continued to divide her time between TV movies and theatrical releases, emerging as a talented and promising actress.