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Eva Ionesco (born on July 18, 1965) is a French actress, born in Paris. She is the daughter of Romanian-French photographer Irina Ionesco.

At the age of 5, Eva became her mother's favourite photo model. Irina Ionesco's erotic photographs of her young daughter Eva have been a source of controversy since they first appeared in the 1970s. Eva also modeled for other photographers such as Jacques Bourboulon.

She is the youngest model ever to appear in a Playboy nude pictorial, since she was featured at age 11 in the October 1976 issue of the Italian edition of the magazine in a set by Bourboulon. Another of her nude pictorials, in the November 1978 issue of the Spanish edition of Penthouse, was a selection of her mother's photographs.

Eva Ionesco made her movie début at the age of eleven in 1976, playing a child in Roman Polański's movie The Tenant. A short time later she was cast in lolita roles for polemical soft porn movies of the mid 1970s like Spermula and Maladolescenza (also known as Puppy Love).

In the 1980s, she attended the prestigious acting school Amandiers, directed by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans. With her glamorous look and high pitched voice, she soon became a familiar face as second role actress for the young French cinema.

• Les Invisibles (2005, directed by Thierry Jousse) - Vanessa
• Écoute le temps (2005, directed by Alanté Alfandari)
• Quand je serai star (2004, directed by P. Mimouni) - Alice
• Qui perd gagne (2003,directed by Laurent Benegui) - la joueuse de Deauville
• L’Empreinte (2003, directed by D. Mathieu - Mahias) - Anna
• Cette femme-là (2003, directed by Guillaume Nicloux) - Mme Kopmans
• Je suis votre homme (2003, directed by Danièle Dubroux) - Hélène
• A Man, a Real One (Un homme, un vrai) (2003, directed by Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) - la productrice
• Eros thérapie (2002, directed by D. Dubroux) - Hélène
• Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (2002, directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) - une femme au cinéma
• Un aller simple (2001, directed by L. Heynemann) - Clémentine
• Paris mon petit corps est bien las de ce grand monde (2000, directed by F. Prenant) - une amie d'Agathe/Agathe's friend
• L'Oncle Paul (2000, directed by Gérard Vergez) - Colombe
• Adieu, plancher des vaches ! (1999, directed by Otar Iosseliani) - une prostituée
• La Patinoire (1999, directed by Jean-Philippe Toussaint) - Editeur
• Maison de famille (1999, directed by Serge Moati) - Sandra)
• Vive la république (1997, directed by Éric Rochant) - La femme de Victor/Victor's wife
• La Petite maman (1997, directed by P. Martineau) - La prof de natation/swimming teacher
• Liberté chérie (1996, directed by J.-L. Gaget)
• Romaine (1996, directed by Agès Obadia) - Pastelle
• L'Appartement (1996, directed by Gilles Mimouni) - une femme à l'agence de voyages/Woman at Travel Agency
• Encore (1996, directed by Pascal Bonitzer) - Olga
• Pullman paradis (1995, directed by Michèle Rosier) - Marie-Paule Daragnès
• X pour Xana (1994, directed by Dominic Gould)
• Montparnasse-Pondichéry (1993, directed by Yves Robert) - Colette
• Rupture(s) (1993, directed by Christine Citti) - Anna
• Grand bonheur (1993, directed by Hervé Le Roux) - Emma
• Comment font les gens ? (1992, directed by Pascale Bailly) - Emmanuelle
• La Sévillane (1992, directed by Jean-Philippe Toussaint)
• La Table d'émeraude (1992, directed by P. Bourgeade)
• Chant de guerre parisien (1991, directed by Laetitia Masson)
• Monsieur (1990, directed by Jean-Philippe Toussaint) - Mme Ponz-Romanov
• L'Orchestre rouge (1989, directed by Jacques Rouffio) - Margaret

• L'Amoureuse (1987, directed by Jacques Doillon) - Elsa
• Hôtel de France (1986, directed by Patrice Chéreau) - waitress
• Jeux d'artifices (1986, directed by Virginie Thévenet) - Eva
• Grenouilles (1985, directed by Adolfo Arrieta) - Kati
• Les Nanas (1984, directed by Annick Lanoë) - Miss France
• La Nuit porte-jarretelles (1984, directed by V. Thévenet
• Meurtres à domicile (1981, directed by Marc Lobet) - Pauline
• L'Amant de poche (1978, directed by Bernard Queysanne) Martine
• Maladolescenza (1977, directed by P. G. Murgia) - Silvia
• Le Locataire (1976, directed by Roman Polanski) - La sœur de Mme. Gaderian
• Spermula (1976, directed by Charles Matton)

• La voix humaine by Jean Cocteau (directed by M. Mastor)

• At Nanterre-Amandier (director Patrice Chéreau) - 1986-88
  • Penthésilée et la petite Catherine by Heinrich von Kleist (directed by Pierre Romans)
  • Platonov by Anton Chekov (directed by Patrice Chéreau)
  • Le retour du désert by Bernard-Marie Kortès (directed by Patrice Chéreau)
  • Le conte d'hiver by William Shakespeare (directed by Luc Bondy)

• Ecrit sur l'eau (directed by Niels Arestrup)
• Lola et toi et moi (directed by N. Schmidt)

• Eva Ionesco at the Internet Movie Database
• "Petit à petit... on devient moins petit !" - Eva Ionesco