, is also an actress and film director. Her brother Jowan Le Besco

Jowan Le Besco

Born on 26 August 1981, Jowan Le Besco is a French actor, scriptwriter, director and chief cameraman. He is the second child in a family of five, the son of Franco-Algerian actress and journalist of Kabyl and Turco-Mongol descent, Catherine Belkhodja...

, partner to Catherine Deneuve in Princesse Marie and documentary maker, was chief cameraman in Demi-tarif and Charly, two films written and directed by their sister Isild Le Besco

Isild Le Besco

Isild Le Besco is a French actress and the daughter of Catherine Belkhodja. She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French and Algerian descent....

. Her other brother, Kolia Litscher

Kolia Litscher

Kolia Litscher is a French actor.Born to a Russian Swiss father and a French mother, he could not escape following in his parents’ footsteps. As a baby, he was already “on stage” in his cradle as his father, play director Hans-Peter Litscher and his actress mother Catherine Belkhodja were...

, is also an actor.

Career

A former student at the Paris National Academy of Music, Léonor started studying music on a part-time basis, prior to joining Lycée Charlemagne and Lycée Turgot, two Paris secondary schools renowned for their academic standards. Since early childhood, she had been a singer at the Paris Choir School, which enabled her to perform in a large number of concerts at the Paris Opera, Beaubourg Museum, Notre-Dame Catheral and Chatelet Theatre. As a child, she appeared in Chris Marker’s The Last Bolshevik

The Last Bolshevik

The Last Bolshevik is a 1992 French documentary film about director Aleksandr Medvedkin, directed by Chris Marker.-Cast:* Léonor Graser as Dinosaur girl* Nikolai Izvolov as Guest* Kira Paramonova as Guest* Viktor Dyomin as Guest...

, was a partner to Claude Brasseur in a film directed by Alain Bonnot, and played in Michel Léviant’s Le mur aux fées. As a young teenager, she was given a role in Emmanuelle Bercot’s first film, La Puce. Its success was such that the film was granted a special derogation for wide release. Léonor later held roles in films directed by Benoît Jacquot and Michel Léviant.

Feature films

• 1992  : Le tombeau d'Alexandre by Chris Marker
  Chris Marker
  Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa...
  
  
• 1994 : Le mur aux fées by Michel Léviant
• 1996  : La Puce d’Emmanuelle Bercot
• 2004 : À tout de suite
  À tout de suite
  Right Now is a 2004 French film by director Benoît Jacquot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
  
  by Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  
• 2006 : En souvenir de nous by Michel Léviant

Short films

1987  Les plumes du lapin by Catherine Belkhodja

• Scriptwriting

Chacun son style by Léonor Graser

• Script reader with SOPADIN (a scriptwriting competition organisation)

• Film Directing

Chacun son style

• Film Producing

2004 : Demi tarif by Isild Le Besco

Isild Le Besco

Isild Le Besco is a French actress and the daughter of Catherine Belkhodja. She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French and Algerian descent....

 with Karedas

Awards

(as film producer)

• 2004 : Special Jury Award for Demi-tarif at the European First Film Festival of Angers
• 2004 : Procirep - Premiers Plans Award for Demi-tarif at Angers
• 2004 : Special Jury Award for Demi-tarif at Seoul Festival
• 2004 : Jury Award for Demi-tarif at the Crossing Europe Festival of Linz
• 2004 : Demi-tarif nominated for Louis Delluc Award

Singing career

Classical and contemporary repertory – Concert performances with Paris Music School – French song performances with Pier&Leo Group in a variety of cafés-theatres.

Journalistic career

Léonor collaborated a few times for magazines as Elle, Wasabi and Marco Polo.

• [1] Aryuveda Marco Polo n°7
• [2] L'intouchable Marco Polo N°12
• [3] Penkat Silat Marco Polo n°12
• [4] Vietvodao Marco Polo n°11

Literature

Léonor is also Lecturer in Sociology of Literature at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle

University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle

The New Sorbonne University is a public university in Paris, France.The Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle is a founding member of the Paris Universitas, a union of 6 Parisian universities....

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External links

• http://dvdtoile.com/Filmographie.php?id=65940 for filmography and posters
• http://filmos.actricesdefrance.org/G/Leonor_Graser.html for photos and posters
• http://dvdtoile.com/Film.php?id=47601 for review of En souvenir de nous, to be released in August 2007
• http://japan.unifrance.org/perso/perso.asp?commonuser=&langue=21010&perso=327678&activite=1&submit=Ok Japanese website
• http://www.unifrance.org/perso/perso.asp?commonuser=&langue=21008&perso=327678&activite=1&submit=Ok Spanish website
• http://www.unifrance.org/perso/perso.asp?commonuser=&langue=21002&perso=327678&activite=1&submit=Ok English website
• http://www.unifrance.org/perso/perso.asp?langue=21004&perso=327678&CommonUser= Unifrance website in French
• http://actricesdefrance.free.fr/actfra/docs_2/DP_En_souvenir_de_Nous.pdf En souvenir de nous press release