Of Italian-Scandinavian origin, Alba Gaïa Bellugi began her career very early, appearing on screen for the first time at the age of 10 in François Ozon’s film Le temps qu’il reste. She then starred on a series of films, including La Robe du soir by Myriam Aziza, Intouchable in 2011, in which she played François Cluzet’s cheeky teenager, Thérèse Desqueyroux by Claude Miller, Aimer boire et manger by Alain Resnais, Inéxorable by Fabrice Du Welz, and La Récréation de Juillet by Pablo Cotten and Joseph Rozé.
She studied for 3 years at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.
She has also appeared in a number of TV series, including Le bureau des Légendes, Into the Night, 3 x Manon and Manon 20 ans. Her performance, as moving as ever, won her the Best Actress award for Manon 20 at the Festival des créations télévisuelles in Luchon.
She recently starred in Fabrice du Welz’s Maldoror, presented out of competition at the Venice Film Festival 2024.
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