Jasmine Trinca began her film career very young, in 2001, chosen by Nanni Moretti for the role of Irene inThe Son’s Room (Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001). Two years later she was in The Best of Youth by Marco Tullio Giordana (winner of the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes in 2003), followed byManual of Love in 2005 by Giovanni Veronesi andCrime Novel by Michele Placido.
Nanni Moretti called her again in 2006 forThe Caiman, the following year she was in Piano, solo by Riccardo Milani, while in 2009 she won the Marcello Mastroianni Prize in Venice Film Festival withThe Big Dream by Michele Placido.
In 2011, she shot in France House of Tolerance by Bertrand Bonello, in Competition at Cannes Film Festival, while two years later she was at Locarno Film Festival with Une autre vie by Emmanuel Mouret.
In 2013, she starred inThere Will Come a Day by Giorgio Diritti and in Miele by Valeria Golino which earned Jasmine the Nastro d’Argento prize. In 2015 she was in the International cast of Pierre Morel’sThe Gunman with Sean Penn and JavierB ardem. In the same year she played inYou Can’t Save Yourself Alone by Sergio Castellitto and inWondrous Boccaccio by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.
After playing inTommaso by Kim Rossi Stuart andSlam by Andrea Molaioli, in 2017 she was the protagonist of Fortunata by Sergio Castellitto with which she won in Cannes the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actress, the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’Argento prizes.
The following year she played Ilaria Cucchi in the film On My Skin by Alessio Cremonini.
More recently we have seen her in Euforia by Valeria Golino, An Almost Ordinary Summer by Simone Godano, Chiara Malta’s Simple Women, Ferzan Ozpetek’s The Goddess of Fortune (David di Donatello and Nastro d’Argento for Best Actress). In 2018 she made her stage debut in the pièceLa Maladie de la mort directed by Katie Mitchell.
Soon she will be on screens with Giorgia Farina’sRomantic Guide to Lost Places, Ildikó Enyedi’s The Story of My Wife andSuperheroes by Paolo Genovese.
BMM-Being My Mom, a short film selected at Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti 2020, marks her debut behind the camera