Loan Chabanol

Loan Chabanol was born in Paris, France^[2] on 30 December 1982.^[1][2] She is of Vietnamese, German, and Italian descent.^[4] Her early years were spent in art classes with artist Bernard Bistes.^[5] Discovered at the age of 16 by Elite Model Management, she has been on the covers of magazines such as Elle and Marie Claire.^[6] In 2010, she moved to New York to study acting at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.^[6]

Chabanol got her first feature film role in John Turturro's comedy Fading Gigolo. In 2014, she was cast as Sam in Third Person playing a significant compassionate character along with Mila Kunis.^[7] In 2015, she was cast as a lead "femme fatale" in The Transporter Refueled.^[8] In 2022, Chabanol entered The Walking Dead universe playing a lead in the first installment of the anthology series, Tales of the Walking Dead, the latest incarnation of the successful AMC series.^[9]

In 2015, Chabanol opened her first solo art exhibition in New York City, ^[10] "Born in Blue" curated by Monica Watkins.^[10] The show included a short animated film depicting the birth of a phoenix coming to life from the bottom of the ocean. Her following body of work, "Namsis," was introduced in a LA exhibition in 2018,^[11] followed by the group show "WeRise"^[12] along many other artists. In 2019, she released her first children's book, Blueboo,^[13] the story of a blue monster living in the Brown Woods who meets with the last caterpillar left in the forest.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2020, Chabanol became an American citizen.^[14]

• Fading Gigolo (2013)
• Third Person (2014)
• The Transporter Refueled (2015)

• Tales of the Walking Dead (2022)

• Psycho Nacirema (2013), Buster Keaton

• Official website
• Loan Chabanol at IMDb
• Loan Chabanol at AlloCiné (in French)