Marina Hands (born 10 January 1975) is a French stage and film actress. Hands is the daughter of British director Terry Hands and French actress Ludmila Mikaël, and the granddaughter of Ukrainian-Greek painter Pierre Dmitrienko. She studied acting at the Cours Florent and the CNSAD in France, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in England. In 1999, she made her stage debut in Le Bel Air de Londres by Dion Boucicault, and was nominated for a Molière Award. Her first film was Andrzej Żuławski's La Fidélité (2000), followed by The Barbarian Invasions (2003). She then appeared in Les Âmes grises (2005), for which she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress, and Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One) (2006). Her most notable performance to date was in the title role of Lady Chatterley (2006), an adaptation of John Thomas and Lady Jane by D. H. Lawrence. Hands won the 2007 César Award for Best Actress for her performance. In 2006, Hands became a company member of the Comédie-Française. In 2008, she was again nominated for a Molière Award for her play in Partage de midi. In 2011, she starred in Claude Miller's film Voyez comme ils dansent. In 2019, she played Elvira in the TV series Mythomaniac. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marina Hands, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Filmography

• 2026Comédie-Française — Emilie Hamel
• 2025Le Soulier de Satin — Dona Prouhèze
• 2025Six personnages en quête d'auteur — Stage Director, Adaptation
• 20235 Hectares — Léonor Bernard
• 2023King Lear — Goneril
• 2023Le Principal — Noémie, la mère de Naël
• 2022Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite — Elmire, femme d’Orgon
• 2022Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown — Omega
• Off Season — Sterenn Peiry
• 2020The Big Hit — Ariane
• Mythomaniac — Elvira
• 2018Guy — Chanteuse
• Black Spot — Delphine Garnier
• 2017From a distance — Sophie
• Taboo — Countess Musgrove
• 2015Chic! — Hélène Birk
• 2015Les Jours venus — Marie
• 2014French Women — Inès
• 2014GHB: To Be or Not to Be — Gil / Henrietta / Fleur
• 2013Jappeloup — Nadia Durand, wife of Pierre
• 2012Of Women and Horses — Gracieuse
• 2012Pour Djamila — Gisèle Halimi
• 2011Le partage de midi — Ysé
• 2011See How They Dance — Lise Clément
• 2010A Very Very Beautiful Love Story — Dorothée
• 2010An Ordinary Execution — Anna
• 2009Change of Plans — Juliette
• 2009Hidden Diary — Audrey
• 2008Story of Jen — Sarah
• 2007Le temps d'un regard — Natalya
• 2007The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — Joséphine
• 2006Lady Chatterley — Constance
• 2006Tell No One — Anne Beck
• 2005Grey Souls — Lysia Verhareine
• 2004Mon homme — Marie
• 2003Phèdre — Aricie
• 2003The Barbarian Invasions — Gaëlle
• 2003Utsikt fra et vindu — The Woman
• 2002Sur le bout des doigts — Juliette
• 2001Un pique-nique chez Osiris — Héloïse Ancelin
• Un pique-nique chez Osiris — Héloïse Ancelin
• 2000Fidelity — Julia
• La Décision
• La grande

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Cérémonie des César — Self - Presenter