List of French child actors

This is a list of child actors from France. Films and/or television series they appeared in are mentioned only if they were still a child at the time of filming.

Current child actors (under the age of eighteen) are indicated by boldface.

A

 * Isabelle Adjani (born 1955)
 * Le Petit bougnat (1970)
 * Faustine et le bel été (1972)
 * L'école des femmes (1973)

B

 * Christophe Bourseiller (born 1957)
 * War of the Buttons (1962)
 * Une Femme Mariée (1964)
 * Two or Three Things I Know About Her... (1967)
 * Weekend (1967)

C

 * Timothée Chalamet (born 1995)
 * Law & Order (1 episode, 2009)
 * Loving Leah (2009)
 * Royal Pains (4 episodes, 2012)
 * Homeland (8 episodes, 2012)
 * François Civil (born 1990)
 * Le cactus (2005)
 * Louis la brocante (1 episode, 2006)
 * Trop la Classe (2006)
 * Autopsy (2007)
 * Molière (2007)
 * Daddy Cool (2008)
 * Dying or Feeling Better (2008)
 * Sur ta joue ennemie (2008)
 * Jean Claudio (1927–1992)
 * Nostalgie (1938)
 * Rasputin (1938)
 * Boys' School (1938)
 * Crossroads (1938)
 * The Phantom Carriage (1939)
 * L'enfer des anges (1941)
 * Andorra ou les Hommes d'airain (1942)
 * The Heart of a Nation (1943)
 * Les Cadets de l'océan (1945)
 * Marion Cotillard (born 1975)
 * Le monde des tout-petits (1982)
 * Lucie (1983)
 * Étude sur le Mouvement (1993)
 * Highlander (2 episodes, 1993)
 * Lola Créton (born 1993)
 * Imago (2004)
 * Louis Page (1 episode, 2007)
 * Room of Death (2007)
 * Trouble at Timpetill (2008)
 * Bluebeard (2009)
 * Malban (2009)
 * En Ville (2011)
 * Goodbye First Love (2011)

D

 * René Dary (1905-1974)
 * Le Louis de vingt francs (short film, 1910)
 * Bébé (short film series, 1910-1913)
 * Le Bracelet de la marquise (short film, 1911)
 * La Cassette de l'émigrée (short film, 1912)
 * Le Petit Poucet (short film, 1912)
 * Les Ananas (short film, 1913)


 * Catherine Demongeot (born 1948)
 * Zazie dans le metro (1960)
 * Let's Rob the Bank (1964)
 * Les Fables de La Fontaine – Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin (1966)

F

 * Benoît Ferreux (born 1955)
 * Murmur of the Heart (1971)
 * It Only Happens to Others (1971)
 * La Guerrilla (1972)
 * Défense de savoir (1973)
 * Le Beau samedi (short film, 1973)
 * Sara Forestier (born 1985)
 * Les Fantômes de Louba (2001)
 * La Guerre à Paris (2002)
 * Quelques jours entre nous (2003)
 * Brigitte Fossey (born 1946)
 * Forbidden Games (1952)
 * The Steel Rope (1954)
 * The Happy Road (1957)

G

 * Charlotte Gainsbourg (born 1971)
 * Paroles et Musique (1984)
 * La tentation d'Isabelle (1985)
 * An Impudent Girl (1985)
 * Charlotte for Ever (1986)
 * Kung Fu Master (1988)
 * Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988)
 * The Little Thief (1988)
 * François Goeske (born 1989)
 * Der kleine Mann (2001)
 * Bibi Blocksberg (2002)
 * The Jungle Book 2 (2003, singing role)
 * The Flying Classroom (2003 film) (2003)
 * Bergkristall (2004)
 * The Kids Ten Commandment (2004, voice)
 * French for Beginners (2006)
 * The Last Train (2006, voice)
 * Breaking and Entering (2006, voice)
 * Patricia Gozzi (born 1950)
 * Sundays and Cybele (1962)
 * Rapture (1965)


 * Milo Machado-Graner (born 2008)
 * Waiting for Bojangles (2021)
 * Stuck Together (2021)
 * In Therapy (3 episodes, 2021)
 * Alex Hugo (1 episode, 2022)
 * Heureusement qu'on s'a (2022)
 * Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

H

 * André Heuzé (born 1913)
 * Poil de carotte (1925)
 * Bobby Henrey (born 1939)
 * The Fallen Idol (1948)
 * The Wonder Kid (1949)

I

 * Eva Ionesco (born 1965)
 * Spermula (1976)
 * Le Locataire (1976)
 * Maladolescenza (1977)
 * L'Amant de poche (1978)
 * L'Hôtel du libre échange (1979)
 * Journal d'une maison de correction (1980)
 * Meurtres à domicile (1982)
 * Grenouilles (1983)

J

 * Fabrice Josso (born 1969)
 * Au théâtre ce soir: Un mois à la campagne (1976)
 * François le Champi (1976)
 * Les Folies Offenbach (1 episode, 1977)
 * The Associate (1979)
 * Les Amours des années folles (1 episode, 1980)
 * Sans famille (1981)
 * Time Bandits (French voice of Kevin, 1981)
 * La nuit du général Boulanger (1982)
 * Queen Lear (1982)
 * First Blood (voice in the French dub, 1982)
 * Halloween III: Season of the Witch (French voice of Buddy Kupfer, 1982)
 * The World According to Garp (French voice of young Garp, 1982)
 * Airplane II: The Sequel (French voice of Jimmy Wilson, 1982)
 * Twilight Zone: The Movie (voice in the French dub, 1983)
 * Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (French voice of Tommy Jarvis, 1984)
 * Cinéma 16 - La vie telle qu'elle change (1984)
 * La Famille Bargeot (1985)
 * À nous les garçons (1985)
 * Le Déclic (1985)
 * Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986)
 * Les Nouveaux Tricheurs (1987)

K

 * Nikolai Kinski (born 1976)
 * Paganini (1989)
 * Jamila (1994)

L

 * Vincent Lacoste (born 1993)
 * The French Kissers (2009)
 * Au bistro du coin (2011)
 * Low Cost (2011)
 * Skylab (2011)
 * Play It Like Godard (2011)
 * De l'huile sur le feu (2011)
 * Pascal Lamorisse (born 1950)
 * White Mane (1953)
 * The Red Balloon (1956)
 * Stowaway in the Sky (1960)
 * Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944)
 * La Tour, prends garde ! (1958)
 * The 400 Blows (1959)
 * Boulevard (1960)
 * Testament of Orpheus (1960)
 * Love at Twenty (1962)


 * Martin Loeb (born 1959)
 * My Little Loves (1974)
 * Second Chance (1976)
 * Maladolescenza (1977)


 * Robert Lynen (1920-1944)
 * The Red Head (1932)
 * The Little King (1933)
 * Sans famille (1934)
 * They Were Five (1936)
 * The Fraudster (1937)
 * The Man of the Hour (1937)
 * Life Dances On (1937)
 * La vie est magnifique (1938)
 * Mollenard (1938)
 * The Little Thing (1938)
 * Education of a Prince (1938)

M

 * Sophie Marceau (born 1966)
 * La Boum (1980)
 * La Boum 2 (1982)
 * Fort Saganne (1984)
 * Happy Easter (1984)

P

 * Georges Poujouly (born 1940)
 * Forbidden Games (1952)
 * We Are All Murderers (1952)
 * Les Diaboliques (1955)
 * And God Created Woman (1956)

S

 * Ludivine Sagnier (born 1979)
 * Le Secret d'Iris (1996)
 * Vacances au purgatoire (1992)
 * La Famille Fontaine (1992)
 * Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
 * Le Pont du silence (1990)
 * Je veux rentrer à la maison (1989)
 * Les Maris, les Femmes, les Amants (1989)
 * Romy Schneider (1938-1982)
 * When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953)
 * Fireworks (1954)
 * Victoria in Dover (1954)
 * The Last Man (1955)
 * Die Deutschmeister (1955)
 * Sissi (1955)
 * Sissi – The Young Empress (1956)
 * Kitty and the Great Big World (1956)


 * Jules Sitruk (born 1990)
 * An Angel for Chloé (1999)
 * L'Ange tombé du ciel (2000)
 * P.J. (one episode, 2000)
 * Sans famille (2 episodes, 2000)
 * Docteur Sylvestre (1 episode, 2000)
 * Le pain (short film, 2001)
 * Frailty (French voice of Adam Meiks as a child, 2001)
 * Sauveur Giordano (1 episode, 2001)
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (French voice of Haleth, 2002)
 * Monsieur Batignole (2002)
 * Haute Pierre (2002)
 * Signs (French voice of Morgan Hess, 2003)
 * I, Cesar (2003)
 * Vipère au poing (2004)
 * Godsend (French voice of Adam Duncan, 2004)
 * Birth (French voice of Sean Contre, 2004)
 * The Butterfly Effect (French voice of 7-year old Evan Treborn, 2004)
 * Alexander (French voice of Alexander as a child, 2004)
 * Les Aiguilles rouges (2006)
 * Son of Rambow (2007)

T

 * Victoire Thivisol (born 1991)
 * Ponette (1996)
 * Children of the Century (1999)
 * Chocolat (2000)

V

 * Judith Vittet (born 1984)
 * The City of Lost Children (La Cité des enfants perdus) (1995)
 * Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995)


 * Marina Vlady (born 1938)
 * Summer Storm (1949)
 * Due sorelle amano (1950)
 * Pardon My French (1951)
 * Dans la vie tout s'arrange (1952)
 * Black Feathers (1952)
 * The Unfaithfuls (1953)
 * Finishing School (1953)
 * Too Young for Love (1953)
 * Cavalcade of Song (1953)
 * Musoduro (1953)
 * Before the Deluge (1954)
 * She (1954)
 * Days of Love (1954)
 * Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova (1955)
 * The Hotshot (1955)
 * Sophie and the Crime (1955)
 * Les salauds vont en enfer (1955)
 * Symphony of Love (1956)
 * Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1956)
 * La Sorcière (1956)
 * Crime and Punishment (1956)