Mallory Wanecque

Mallory Wanecque (born 26 July 2006) is a French actress. She is known for her starring role in her debut feature film, The Worst Ones (2022), for which she won the Rising Star Award for Best International Young Actor at the 2022 Rome Film Festival, and was nominated for the 2023 César Awards for Most Promising Actress. Wanecque was born on 26 July 2006 in Valenciennes, Hauts-de-France. She attended the Jules Ferry School in Anzin. One day as she was leaving the school holding her little sister in her arms, she came across three women who were distributing flyers for a casting and caught the eye of the casting director of the film The Worst Ones, who left her number with Wanecque. She passed the audition and then quit high school to devote herself to a film career.