Rise to Fame
At 16, Karl Lagerfeld personally chose her for a Chanel campaign, making her the youngest ambassador the house had ever appointed. Her mother Vanessa Paradis had already held that role for decades, which tells you everything about how the door opened. The acting work was quieter, bit parts and low-profile credits, until The Idol in 2023. The HBO series was controversial, reviled by critics, and cancelled after one season, but it still landed her at No. 1 on IMDb's Starmeter. Her single 'One of the Girls' cleared 2 billion Spotify streams. The backlash became the billboard.
In the Spotlight
After The Idol flopped critically, she signed on to Nosferatu with Robert Eggers and earned the kind of reviews her earlier work never got. Now deep into Eggers' follow-up Werwulf, reportedly unrecognizable under prosthetics in 13th-century England, plus a Cormac McCarthy adaptation with Jacob Elordi lined up. The nepo baby discourse still follows her everywhere, amplified when she compared her career to a doctor's kid following their parent into medicine. Top models publicly pushed back. She keeps booking serious directors, which is a different argument than the one she made.
Side Notes
Marilyn Manson is her godfather, which somehow never comes up enough. She grew up between Paris and Los Angeles, dropped out of high school, and has been a Chanel fixture ever since, despite being 5'3" in an industry that typically insists on 5'9". She confirmed a relationship with rapper 070 Shake in 2023, reportedly the only one she's ever explicitly confirmed. Her father appeared with her in Tusk for her film debut, her mother Vanessa Paradis paved the Chanel road. The family business runs deep, which makes her insistence on the self-made label so entertaining.