César 2024
Swiss actress Ella Rumpf wins the French film award for Best Discovery
24.02.2024
Swiss actress Ella Rumpf wins the French César 2024 as Best Female Discovery (Révélation féminine) for the leading role in the French-Swiss coproduction MARGUERITE’S THEOREM. The award ceremony of the French film academy Académie des César took place yesterday evening in Paris.
In the film, Ella Rumpf plays a brilliant maths student with a stellar career ahead of her. But shortly before completing her dissertation, a mistake shakens all her previous certainties. MARGUERITE'S THEOREM celebrated its world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival. The film was coproduced by the Swiss production company Beauvoir Films and Radio Television Suisse (RTS). Ella Rumpf has already received the award of the Académie des Lumière for Best Newcomer for the same role and has been nominated for Best Actress for the Swiss Film Award.
A stellar career
Ella Rumpf was born in Paris in 1995 and grew up in Zurich. In 2012, she made her acting debut in the film DRAUSSEN IST SOMMER by Friederike Jehn. At the age of 19, she attracted attention with her role in Simon Jaquemet's feature film debut CHRIEG. Ella Rumpf made her international debut at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in the horror thriller RAW by Julia Ducournau. For this role, she was selected for the first time by the Académie des César for the "Révélations". In 2020, Ella Rumpf was presented by European Film Promotion as one of ten European Shooting Stars.
The multilingual actress has already played in numerous Swiss and international film productions, such as the German film TIGER GIRL by Jakob Lass (2017), Petra Volpe's THE DIVINE ORDER (2017), Detlef Buck's ASPHALTGORILLAS (2018), the French-Canadian-Belgian coproduction SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL by Guillaume de Fontenay (2019) and the Swiss film SOUL OF A BEAST by Lorenz Merz (2021). Ella Rumpf has also appeared in several international series such as SUCCESSION, TOKYO VICE and the Netflix series FREUD.