Virginie Besson-Silla

Film producer

Birthday January 26, 1972

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Age 52 years old

Nationality Canada

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1972

Virginie Besson-Silla (born 1972) is a Canadian-French film producer.

She has made a variety of different films including action films, romantic films, comic adaptations, biographical films and an animation.

Silla was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the daughter of a Senegalese diplomat and a French physiotherapist.

She is the sister-in-law of actor Vincent Perez by her sister, Karine Silla, who is an actress and author.

2004

Since her marriage in 2004 to Luc Besson, Virginie has been known as Virginie Silla-Besson or Virginie Besson-Silla.

The couple has three children.

2010

In 2010, Time quoted Luc saying she was a more perfect producer than he was and that she hereby enabled him to focus on directing his artistically most demanding, sumptuous film The Lady (2011).

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