Laëtitia Eïdo - Biography

Laëtitia Eïdo is a French actress from a mixed background, which allows her to play characters from different ethnicities, in several languages (7 until now). Her recent work includes "A borrowed identity", new Eran Riklis' movie (Lemon tree); French tv-series "Garage Voices"; and she's currently starring - with the lead part of Dr. Shirin - in the highly successful tv-series "Fauda", which disrupts the clichés about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

She started her career on screen with notably the role of Cleopatra, in Arte channel docu-fiction "The Destiny of Rome" (in Greek & Latin); with Simon Astier successful comic tv-series Hero Corp", in which she was an Indian superhero. The role she played in Arte movie "Limply, a Saturday morning" (in Algerian) marked a turning point in her career.

Her multicultural ethnic look opened up for her new horizons in the United States with the HBO/Cinemax action tv-series "Strike Back", season 3 (in English); and the movie "The land of Nothing" (with the "David Lynch MA in Films"). She will be soon seen on screen with the leading part of the historical feature film "Fadhma N'Soumer" (in Berberian).

She started on stage, with various significant parts including "Andromaque" in Racine's Greek tragedy; "Églé" in Marivaux's French classic "The dispute"; and Singing theatre or Operetta with "Phi Phi". First trained in classical acting techniques in Paris theatre schools, she also attended workshops with Peter Brook, Jacques Lecoq and Philippe Genty companies.

Laëtitia Eïdo focused these past years on the Sanford Meisner acting technique in New York, with Scott Williams and Niki Flacks. Moreover, she got graduated at La Sorbonne-Nouvelle in "Scenography and new theatrical forms and writings" (Master 2) and published her research in "Registres" theatre magazine.