- Lily-Rose Depp stars in Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu
- She has faced a nepo baby due to her parents
- Her mother is the model, actress and singer, Vanessa Paradis
Lily-Rose Depp has been dogged by nepo baby allegations her whole career. These come in part from being the daughter of the actor Johnny Depp.
The Nosferatu star has spoken extensively about the lows and highs of being known for the work of your parents. She has even come under fire for claiming it makes it harder to make it.
However, did you know that her mother, Vanessa Paradis, is also famous in her own right?
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Who is Vanessa Paradis, the mother of Lily-Rose Depp?
Paradis is a French model, singer and actress. Born in the French town of Saint-Maur-des-Foesses in 1972, she took dance and piano lessons before becoming a child model.
Her fame rose to heights when she released her song, Joe le Taxi, at age 14 in 1987.
At 18, she scooped up the Most Promising Actress Award for Noce Blanche at the Cesars, the French version of the Oscars.
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Among other gongs for music and acting, Paradis boasts some of French cinema’s brightest lights as her past co-stars. These include Gerard Depardieu, Alain Delon and Jean Reno.
She was a muse to Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld just like Lily-Rose Depp
At 18, Paradis snagged her first gig with Chanel, a photoshoot with Jean-Paul Goude for the fragrance Coco.
This marked a lifelong professional love affair with the French fashion house, becoming a muse to the iconic creative director Karl Lagerfeld.
Paradis said to S magazine in 2018, “He truly tells the truth about everything he thinks. He’s such a delicate man, and working with him and all his crew, I love the way he talks to the people he works with. He includes them so much, he respects them, he praises them and so everybody has wings when working with him.”
Lagerfeld’s adoration for Paradis was implanted onto her daughter Lily-Rose, who was made an ambassador for the brand as a teenager.
She has dated a string of famous men
Now she is happily married to director Samuel Benchetrit, Paradis has been linked to some of Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors before they got together in 2018.
Between 1998 and 2012, she was with Lily-Rose’s father, Johnny. While they were together, they also welcomed a son, Jack.
At 15, she dated the 26-year-old singer Florent Pagny. After this, Paradis dated rocker Lenny Kravitz from 1991 to 1996.
While attending a Chanel show in Dubai in 2014, she was spotted with her then-boyfriend Benjamin Biolay. They split up in 2015.
