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Agathe Bonitzer was born on April 24, 1989, in Paris. She is the daughter of French filmmaker Pascal Bonitzer and director Sophie Fillières. She made her film debut in 1996 in "Trois vies & une seule mort" ("Three Lives and Only One Death"), directed by Chilean auteur Raúl Ruiz. From 2003 on — when she was just twelve — Bonitzer began appearing regularly in film and television.
After finishing school, she studied modern literature (lettres modernes) at the Sorbonne in Paris while simultaneously training as an actress at the Conservatoire du 7ᵉ Arrondissement Erik Satie. Since then, she has appeared in numerous French productions, most often in supporting roles and frequently under the direction of her parents.
German filmmaker Angela Schanelec first cast Bonitzer in a leading role in her contemporary take on the Oedipus myth, "Music" (2023), which was honored in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. She later gave Bonitzer the female lead in the relationship drama "Meine Frau weint" ("My Wife Is Crying", 2026), which also screened in the Berlinale competition.