Who is Elisa Sednaoui, godmother of the Venice Film Festival

Elisa Sednaoui, the new godmother of the Venice Film Festival, is still little known in Italy, even though she was born there. Of an Italian mother and an Egyptian father, she was born in Piedmont but has always lived between Italy, France and Egypt, always poised between different cultures: she speaks five languages, and also as regards her career, she is very eclectic.

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In fact, she made her debut as a model, for the H&M and Victoria "s Secret catalogs, and then on the catwalks. She conquers the covers of the most important fashion magazines, yet that's not enough: in 2010 she made her debut as an actress in the film We, together, now - Bus Palladium, up to the most recent Kaspar Hauser's enigma, with Vincent Gallo and Claudia Gerini, and Soap opera, where he bursts into the life of Fabio De Luigi, upsetting her.

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Her restlessness leads her to experiment with new ways, and here she is the director of a documentary shot with Martina Gili, Image of a woman, still unpublished.

© from Elisa Sednaoui's Instagram profile

Private life in pictures

© web Elisa Sednaoui and Alex Dellal

On the private life front, on the other hand, Elisa seems already decided and settled: in 2013 she had her first son, Jack, by Alex Dellal, a rich British and Brazilian collector and curator of the well-known dynasty, former boyfriend of Charlotte Casiraghi, married in 2014 .

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© Getty Images The style of Elisa Sednaoui

Elisa never seems to stop, and although she seems settled with her family in London, she also writes in the Huffington Post and has created a Foundation that bears her name, dedicated to the education and cultural exchange of Egyptian students, to help them to get out of situations of hardship thanks to learning about culture, developing creativity and the relationship with other cultures. A precious lesson that Elisa knows well.