Megan Northam Biography

CIVIL STATUS
Profession Actress
Nationality Frenchwoman
BIOGRAPHY
After choosing the film option in high school, Megan Northam sees herself becoming a scriptwriter or screenwriter. Once settled in Paris, she worked a series of odd jobs, in parallel with classes and castings. In 2017, the young woman starred in Hyacinthe’s music video “Sur ma vie”, directed by Anna Cazenave-Cambet. Thomas Vernay, who then directed her in Maud Geffray’s “Ice Teens” video, gave her the lead role in his short film Miss Chazelles.
Her performance earned her the title of Best Young Actress at the Jean Carmet Festival and won the Adami Award for Best Actress at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. These awards allow him to attract the attention of professionals in the field and, above all, to find an agent.

After a minor role in the comedy Robust with Gérard Depardieu and Déborah Lukumuena, Megan Northam is the daughter of Charlotte Gainsbourg in The Passengers of the Night. Noticed thanks to her talent, she starred in Notre-Dame, la part du feu, the Netflix series by Hervé Hadmar and Olivier Bocquet, with Roschdy Zem, Caroline Proust, Simon Abkarian and Victor Belmondo. This fiction, inspired by the fire that ravaged the Parisian cathedral in April 2019, paints the portraits of characters motivated by courage and mutual aid.

In the spring of 2023, subscribers to Amazon’s Prime Video platform discovered her in Greek Salad, the sequel to Cédric Klapisch’s successful film franchise that began in 2002 with The Spanish Inn. Mia, the daughter of Xavier (Romain Duris) and Wendy (Kelly Reilly), is one of the pillars of this series set in Athens. Politically engaged, his character deploys all his energy to help refugees who are not well received by the Greek authorities. Her brother Tom (Alyosha Schneider), who joins her in the meantime, is in turn confronted with the harsh economic and social reality of the country, while quickly making friends with a group of heterogeneous and endearing people. The show, developed by Cédric Klapisch and Lola Doillon, among others, is a great success and confirms the talent of Megan Northam. This was followed by leading roles in Pendant ce temps sur Terre (by Jérémy Clapin) and Rabia (by Mareike Engelhardt), in which she played a young French woman who has gone to jihad and finds herself locked up in an ISIS women’s house in Raqqa.