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Laetitia Casta - Biography

Early Career

Born on May 11, 1978, in Pont-Audemer in Normandy, France, Laetitia Marie Laure is the middle child of Corsican father Dominique and mother Line. She was thrust into the limelight at the age of 15 when she was discovered by an agent from the prestigious Paris modelling agency, Madison Models while lying on a beach with her family in Corsica. Although her father didn't immediately agree to let the agency take test shots of his daughter, once he gave the green light it didn't take long for Laetitia's career to take off. Within weeks of the shoot, she was strutting her stuff on the catwalk for Jean-Paul Gaultier and by the time the model was 16 she had featured on three magazine covers. 

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From Modelling to the Big Screen

Prestigious contracts quickly ensued and by the mid-1990s she was making a hit Stateside as the new Guess girl and as the catalogue cover girl for lingerie firm Victoria's Secret. Five years after starting in the fashion trade, Laetitia's net worth was estimated at $5.3 mil

Laetitia Casta Biography

Date of Birth:
May 11, 1978Birth Place:
Pont-Audemer, Eure, France

Biography

In French model and actress Laetitia Casta's case, she was definitely born with "it" -- "it" being the precise combination of beauty, talent and drive that sends her career everywhere from Victoria's Secret runway shows to high fashion ad campaigns and the most prestigious film awards ceremony in France. Her chance discovery in 1993 by a French modeling agency when she was just a teenager soon turned into a high-powered modeling career that landed her on the covers of magazines of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the legendary Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Her appointment in 1998 as brand ambassador for cosmetics giant L'Oreal Paris dovetailed with her coronation as a Victoria's Secret Angel and the new face of Marianne, the French Republic's symbol of liberty and equality. Casta traded photo shoots for film sets when she first appeared in the live-action adaptation of the popular French comic "Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar" (1999), which led to later roles as French b

Laetitia Casta

French actress and model

Laetitia Marie Laure Casta (French:[lɛtisjakasta]; born 11 May 1978)[3] is a French model and actress.

Casta became a "GUESS? Girl" in 1993 and gained further recognition as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1998 to 2000 and as a spokesperson for cosmetics company L'Oréal. She has appeared on over 250 covers of such popular magazines as Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Elle and Glamour, and has walked runways for designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Paco Rabanne, Kenzo, Louis Vuitton, Christian Lacroix, Roberto Cavalli, Jacquemus, Ralph Lauren and Vivienne Westwood.

As an actress, Casta appeared in such films as Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), Born in 68 (2008), Face (2009), Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010), which earned her a nomination for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress, Arbitrage (2012), A Faithful Man (2018) and The Crusade (2021).

Early life

Laetitia Casta was born in Pont-Audemer, Normandy. Her mothe

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