Dylan Penn
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The Hollywood Rising-Star Award was inaugurated in 2011 by the Deauville American Film Festival to commend the talent, passion, and involvement of actors and actresses starting on the path to creation. These emerging performers are the faces of tomorrow’s cinema.
In our past editions, Ryan Gosling (2011), Jessica Chastain (2011), Paul Dano (2012), Robert Pattinson (2015), Elizabeth Olsen (2015), Chloé Grace Moretz (2016), Daniel Radcliffe (2016), Shailene Woodley (2018), Elle Fanning (2018) and Sophie Turner (2019) received this award.
Dylan Penn is an American model and actress. She is the daughter of renowned actors Sean Penn and Robin Wright. Although born in Los Angeles, her parents decided to move and raise her in Ross, a small town in Northern California. They wanted Dylan to live a life away from the young Hollywood scene.
At age 23, she became one of the most sought after models and muses for top designers and photographers across the world. She secured major campaigns for Ermanno Scervino, The Hip Tee in Madrid, Stuart Wetizman, The Gap, and most recently Michael Kors. In 2015, she flew to Paris at the request of Karl Lagerfeld to sit front row at his coveted Paris Chanel couture fashion show.
In regards to her acting career in September 2014, Penn received a lot of attention for appearing alongside Poppy Delevigne in Rock Roll Ride, a video installation project (referred to as a short film by some) directed by Julia Restoin Roitfeld for shoe designer Stuart Weitzman during Paris Fashion Week. It was the first female-directed ad campaign for the brand. That same year, she played the female lead alongside pop star Nick Jonas for his video for “Chains”.
In 2015, Dylan starred as Maya in Condemned, directed by Eli Morgan Gesner, where she must escape from a deadly virus. She also appeared in opposite Michael Shannon in Elvis & Nixon directed by Liza Johnson.
This year, the young actress appears in Flag Day, in which she plays the lead role under the direction of her father, with whom she also acts. Adapted from the Jennifer Vogel novel “Flim-Flam Man: A True Family History”, the film, presented in Deauville, is a portrait of a young woman struggling to heal from the wounds of her past while rebuilding her relationship with her father.
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