Trivia

She and Johnny Depp played video games together on the set of Chocolat (2000).

Although she speaks English fluently, her voice was dubbed over for a few scenes in Chocolat (2000) because her thick French accent made her difficult to understand.

She has said that the best thing about filming Chocolat (2000) was getting to miss school and eat a lot of chocolate.

At the Venice Film Festival, a reporter asked Victoire how she made herself cry so much as Ponette. Victoire, then age five, replied that it was normal for Ponette to cry because her mother was dead.

Roman Polanski headed the nine-member jury that chose her as winner of the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival; Polanski defended the decision to those who criticized it, saying that the jury unanimously voted for her.

In 1996, at age four, she became the youngest winner of the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Discovered at age 3 and a half by director Jacques Doillon and cast in his film Ponette (1996) as title character.

In 2004, she wrote a short story about an adolescent girl who loses her mother, but she does not plan to publish it.

She described her character in Chocolat (2000) as a "funny, tricky little girl, just like me".

Emmanuel Saget, her director in Grown-Ups Lie Down on the Ground (2008), was so impressed with her that after casting her, he rewrote the film from her character's point of view.

After seeing an interview that Victoire did for a special edition DVD of Ponette (1996), Emmanuel Saget immediately wanted her for his film Grown-Ups Lie Down on the Ground (2008). He sent her a copy of the script, and a week later, she called him and said that she would be in the film.

After completing Ponette (1996), she was allowed to keep the doll (called Yoyotte in the film) and the teddy bear that belonged to her character.

Jacques Doillon gave Victoire a puppy as a special reward for winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. He presented the puppy to her inside the actual Volpi Cup.

During the mid-2000s, Victoire was a member of ACT 1, a Paris-based talent agency that has represented other young French actresses like Flora Cross and Claire Bouanich.

Plans to enter Université Lyon 2 for the 2009-2010 school year and to study cinema and anthropology. (2009)

Began filming "Tous les chats sont gris la nuit," a full-length film by Savina Dellicour; filming is expected to finish in 2010. (March 2009)

She plays the piano.

Her parents separated shortly before she finished filming Ponette (1996).

In 2004, she did a seven-minute interview for a DVD box set of four films by Jacques Doillon; called "Coffret Jacques Doillon - Enfance," it includes Ponette (1996), Family Life (1985), The Hussy (1979), and Un sac de billes (1975).

Filming of Ponette (1996) began on September 20, 1995.

For her performance in Ponette (1996)_, she was the first of only two actresses to be rewarded a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival for their film debut: the other is Ariane Labed for her performance in Attenberg (2010).

Offered a role in a music video by the French rock band Superbus, but she declined the offer.