Zita Hanrot Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Director
French nationality
Birth December 7, 1989 (Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France)

BIOGRAPHY
Born to a Jamaican mother and a father from the city of Reims, Zita studied art history while playing in the theater. In 2009, she went to Paris to become an actress and joined the École du Jeu – Delphine Eliet then the Conservatory of Dramatic Art (from which she graduated in 2014). At the same time, she found three small roles in Radiostars (2012), A New Friend (2014) and Eden (id.).

In 2015, her career accelerated when she was chosen to play one of the two girls (the medical student) in the title role of the drama Fatima by Philippe Faucon (which won the César for Best Film). For the occasion, she won the César for Most Promising Actress in 2016 for her memorable performance in this drama which is no less memorable.

The actress continues with De sas en sas where she is one of the women wanting to visit a loved one incarcerated in Fleury-Mérogis prison and also rubs shoulders with an abject Laurent Laffite in the strange thriller KO . At the same time, she is headlining, with Fred Testot, a romantic TV film whose plot takes place in Martinique in 1942, under the Vichy regime.

2018 is definitely her year since Zita Hanrot plays an ex-addict who befriends another patient in a detoxification center ( The Party is Over ) then plays Leïla Bekhti ‘s sister in the thriller Carnivores . The young woman also plays a gendarmette who sets out in pursuit of the criminal Laurent Laffite in Paul Sanchez Est Revenu! , a thriller directed by Patricia Mazuy .

At the start of 2019, Zita Hanrot is starring in The Order of Physicians with Jérémie Renier in the shoes of a seasoned doctor whose certainties waver when his mother is hospitalized. The actress also shines in the Netflix comedy series Plan Coeur before portraying a young CPE in School Life , under the direction of Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir .

Highly in demand, the Marseille native plays the heroine of the ecological thriller Rouge (2021), opposite Laure Calamy in the dramatic comedy Annie Colère (2022) and tastes the world of night and striptease in À mon Seul desire (2023). Still in 2023,The Standing Man .