Julie de Bona

Julie de Bona — Biography

French actress Julie de Bona is known for work that runs from the stage to film and television. She reached a wide audience with the long-running family series Une famille formidable, and in recent years has appeared in the 2024 adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo and in the 2026 series Sene 1936. She comes from a family of Italian and Vietnamese origin and has 24 years of stage and screen work behind her.

She began by studying biochemistry; at 19 she took a year off to try theatre and trained at the Montpellier Conservatoire. She started on the Paris stage in 2002 and moved into film the same year, with her first small television roles around 2005. In 2006 she appeared in Indigènes and joined Une famille formidable, staying with it until 2010 and working alongside Anny Duperey and Bernard Le Coq.

Her film credits include Je déteste les enfants des autres (2007, as Sofia), Cyprien (2009, as Amandine), Camping 2 (2010) and Beur sur la ville (2011). Later she took parts in Le Tueur du lac (2017), Innocente (2017) and Le Secret d'Elise (2020). She is discreet about her private life.