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Marie de Villepin (born on the 8 May 1986) is a French model, and actress and the daughter of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. She has a brother, Arthur, and a younger sister, Victoire. She graduated with the "licence" degree in law at the french elite university "Panthéon Assas Paris II" in 2006 and became a model in New York, where she also takes acting lessons. She was the bride for the French fashion designer Franck Sorbier in his Fall 2004 Couture collection. Her first major breakthrough was the fashion story, shot by Gilles Bensimon in the American edition of ELLE in October 2005.

She currently models in New York under the alias of Marie Steiss. She was the face and the spokesperson of the perfume Ange ou Démon by Givenchyfrom 206 to 2008. In 2007, she was also chosen by Krizia for their Spring and Fall 2007 advertising campaigns.

Marie Steiss was on the runway for Krizia in Milan, Spring and Winter 2007 collections; in Paris for Givenchy, Spring 2007 RTW collection.

She was on the runway in New York for Diane von Fürstenberg Spring 2006 / Winter 2006 / Winter 2007 / Spring 2008 collections. She was also seen on the catwalk for Catherine Malandrino and Nicole Romano, Spring 2007 collections; for United Bamboo, Winter 2006 collection.

Marie, like both her siblings, is blonde and slender (1.80 m, 55kg)

Previously she had a small career as a child actor, playing in the movie Season's Beatings (1998). She also has had a role as Philippa of Hainault in a French TV miniseries, Les Rois Maudits (2005), based on the novels of Maurice Druon.

In 2008, she decided to focus more on acting. She had a small part in the film from Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds broadcast in 2009 but unfortunately, her performance was cut during the final editing.

Contents 1 Modelling agencies 2 Acting Agencies 3 Films 4 Runway 5 Advertising campaigns 6 Sources 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Modelling agencies

Viva (Paris) / Why Not model agency (Milan) / Iconic management (Berlin)

[edit] Acting Agencies

Agence Variation (Paris) / Agence A2 (Paris)

[edit] Films

• 1999 Season's Beatings (in French: La Bûche) — Danièle Thompson
• 2005 Les Rois Maudits (TV series, France 2) — Josée Dayan
• 2008 Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino (cut in the editing)

[edit] Runway

• 2004 Haute Couture Franck Sorbier
• Spring 2006 RTW Diane Von Furstenberg
• Fall 2006 RTW Diane Von Furstenberg / United Bamboo
• Spring 2007 RTW Givenchy /Nicole Romano/Catherine Malandrino/ Krizia
• Fall 2007 RTW Krizia / Diane Von Furstenberg
• Spring 2008 RTW Diane Von Furstenberg

[edit] Advertising campaigns

• 2006 Givenchy Fragrance "Ange ou Démon"
• 2007 Spring and Fall RTW KRIZIA collections

[edit] Sources

• Short biography of Marie Steiss available in Iconic Management Model Agency (Berlin), Click "special agreement".

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Downstage: Have a look at Marie Steiss or Marie de Villepin
• Marie Steiss or Marie de Villepin in Style.com
• La fille de Villepin mannequin dans Elle
• Givenchy perfume
• Elle.US October 2005
• French designer Franck Sorbier, Fall 2004 Couture collection
• Profile of model Marie Steiss
• Marie de Villepin at the Internet Movie Database