It looks like acting talent runs in the family! Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis' daughter Lily-Rose Depp has landed her first major movie role. The teenager scored a part in The Dancer, a 19th-century drama based on the life of Americanperformer Loie Fuller.
Accordingto Variety, the 16-year-old will play a young Isadora Duncan, "a San Francisco native who grewup in poverty and became a dance prodigy quickly achieving worldwide fame." Shewill co-star with French musician and actress Soko.
Lily-Rose Depp has landed her first major movie role in The Dancer Photo: Getty Images
Lily-Rose will join an impressive international cast including Gaspard Ulliel,Melanie Thierry, Francois Damiens and Louis-Do De Lencquesaing. Filming forthe movie, which will focus on Loie's relationship with Isadora, will begin onSeptember 28.
It might be her first major role, it's not her first foray into film. in May it was announced that she willplay the minor role of Natalie Portman’s sister in Planetarium, a 1930's drama, and she has just wrapped shooting thefilm It’s Only the End of the Worldalongside French actors Marion Cotillard, Lea Seydoux and Vincent Cassel.
A shot from Lily-Rose's Chanel photoshoot Photo: Instagram/@lilyrose_depp
Acting,however, isn’t her only strength. She recently walked in Chanel's couture show and landed an eyewear campaign for the luxury brand andhas now starred in a fashion spread featured in Vogue Paris' 95thanniversary issue.
On Thursday,Lily-Rose gave her 822k Instagram followers a sneak peek at her Vogue fashionshoot, releasing three images from the spread. Taking on ahigh fashion and blossoming movie career in stride, it seems this is only the beginning for the very talented teenager.
