Nadia Tereszkiewicz (; born 24 May 1996) is a French actress.
Early life Tereszkiewicz was born in Versailles, France, to a Finnish mother and a Polish father, who named her after a character from the 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov film Burnt by the Sun. Tereszkiewicz dreamed of becoming a dancer as a child and studied dance at summer courses in Mikkeli and Savonlinna while visiting Finland. She practised dance from age 4 to 18, attending the École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower and then Canada's National Ballet School. She then took hypokhâgne-khâgne with an option in theatre at the Lycée Molière in Paris,Anne Michelet, « Rencontre. « Je suis curieuse de tout » », Version Femina, no 1225, 17-22 septembre 2025, p. 14-16 and a classe libre at the Cours Florent, in Paris. Her mother tongues are French and Finnish, and she also speaks English and Italian.
Career Tereszkiewicz danced in films and videos while studying. She made her feature film debut in The Dancer (2016), which inspired her to pursue an acting career.
In 2019, Tereszkiewicz appeared in Dominik Moll's Only the Animals, which earned her a Best Actress award at the Tokyo International Film Festival and inclusion in the list of revelations by the 2020 Césars. In 2020, she appeared in the French-Israeli miniseries Possessions in a leading role alongside Reda Kateb. In 2022, she starred in Forever Young, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, who shared scenes with Tereszkiewicz in Only the Animals. In 2023, she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Forever Young.
She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, for her performance as Amy in the film Babysitter.Etan Vlessing, "Canadian Screen Awards: TV Drama ‘The Porter’ Leads With 19 Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter, February 22, 2023.
In 2025, Tereszkiewicz was appointed to the jury of the Progressive Cinema Competition at the 20th Rome Film Festival.
Filmography Year Title Role Director 2016 The Dancer Dancer Stéphanie Di Giusto 2018 Father and Sons Nightclub girl Félix Moati Wild Nora Dennis Berry2019 Persona Non Grata Anaïs Laffont Roschdy Zem Only the Animals Marion Dominik Moll 2020 A Night in the Fields Océane Guillaume Grélardon A Museum Sleeps Chloé Camille de Chenay 2022 Babysitter Amy Monia Chokri Tom Joss Fabienne Berthaud Forever Young Stella Valeria Bruni Tedeschi The Last Queen Astrid Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad 2023 The Crime Is Mine Madeleine Verdier François Ozon Rosalie Rosalie Deluc Stéphanie Di Giusto Red Island Colette Lopez Robin Campillo2025 Heads or Tails? Rosa Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis Two Pianos Claude Arnaud Desplechin
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