Francesca Scorsese | |
|---|---|
 Francesca Scorsese at the Berlinale 2024 | |
| Born | November 16, 1999 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | New York University Tisch School of the Arts |
| Occupations |
|
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Parents |
|
| Relatives |
|
Francesca Scorsese (born November 16, 1999) is an American actress, filmmaker, and TikTok creator known for co-starring in the HBO series We Are Who We Are and for making social media videos with her father, Martin Scorsese.
Francesca Scorsese is the daughter of Helen Morris, a book editor, and film director Martin Scorsese. She shot her first footage when she was three years old and continued making home videos with her dad. [1] She appeared briefly in her father's films, such as The Aviator , The Departed , and Hugo . [2] She grew up surrounded by Hollywood stars. She had play dates with Cate Blanchett's kids. Robert De Niro is her godfather and when she was growing up, she called Leonardo DiCaprio "Uncle Leo". [2] "My dad was editing the [ The Wolf of Wall Street ] while I was doing homework on the staircase and all I could hear was sex scenes," she told Nylon. [3]
As an adolescent, Francesca would watch films and eat pizza with her family every weekend. [3] [4] Her mother was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1990. Francesca attended film-related summer programs at Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and New York Film Academy. [3] In 2018, she enrolled at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. [5]
In 2020, she played a high school character Britney Orton in the HBO series We Are Who We Are . [3] [2] When director Luca Guadagnino cast her without knowing her last name, "it was one of the first times I was proud of myself," she told Nylon . [3]
Francesca Scorsese's short film Fish Out of Water , which she created as a thesis, premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. It was also shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. [5] The film depicts a young mother who learns that her own mother is dying and has the chance to reconnect with her family. [5] The film was partially inspired by Francesca's experience with her own mother, Helen Morris, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1990. [5] [3]
In 2023, she worked with her father Martin Scorsese on a Bleu de Chanel commercial starring Timothée Chalamet. [5]
She began posting videos of her father in 2015 on the defunct lip-syncing app Dubsmash. She chose an audio called "Disco Disco Party Party", which, she later told GQ that Martin "thought was the funniest thing ever." She signed her father up for Instagram. She also has asked him to sign up for the movie rating app Letterboxd. [1]
In July 2023, she gained popularity on TikTok after posting a 22-second video of her father with the caption "He's a certified silly goose." [6] In October 2023, she posted a TikTok video called "Dad Guesses Slang" in which she explained Gen Z slang such as "simp", "tea," "the ick" and "sneaky link" to him. [5] [1] [7] Scorsese worked with her father's PR team to promote his film Killers of the Flower Moon , working within the constraints put on promoting works amid the 2023 SAG strike. [3] She's passionate about showing the human side of her father: "He's just a little old man with a family," she said. [8]
Francesca and her father are writing a book for A24 about themselves. They are also working on a long-form project that they say is "top secret". [3] On February 5, 2024, Squarespace announced that Francesca and her father would appear in a commercial in the upcoming Super Bowl LVIII. [9]
She has a miniature schnauzer named Oscar and a micro-Pomeranian named Yeti. [5] [8] She lives in Manhattan with her best friend Kikka and two dogs a few blocks away from her parents' apartment. [3] [4] She loves Hitchcock films and says she has seen The Birds hundreds of times. [4]
After Martin Scorsese said in an interview that Marvel movies aren't cinema, and wrote a New York Times Opinion article clarifying his position, Francesca wrapped all his Christmas presents in Marvel wrapping paper. [1] [10] [11] [12] [13]
Scorsese enjoys working with her father and says she is trying "to be the best nepo baby that I can be." [3] [14]
| Year | Film | Role | Director | Producer | Writer | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Aviator | Little Girl | No | No | No | ||
| 2006 | The Departed | Little Girl at Airport | No | No | No | ||
| 2011 | Hugo | Child at Café | No | No | No | ||
| 2016 | Almost Paris | Lindsay | No | No | No | ||
| 2017 | Wolf at the Door | Libby | No | No | No | ||
| 2018 | We Salute You | Kate | No | No | No | Short film | |
| 2021 | Sleeping Beauty | role unknown | No | No | No | ||
| 2022 | Crimson Ties | Yes | No | Yes | Short film; co-written with Savannah Braswell | [15] | |
| 2023 | Fish Out of Water | Yes | No | Yes | Short film; co-written with Savannah Braswell and Megan Lulu Taylor | [16] | |
| 2023 | The Muse | Yes | No | Yes | Short film | ||
| 2024 | Christmas Eve in Miller's Point | No | No | No | |||
| TBD | The Space Between | No | Yes | No | Short film |
| Year | Series | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Boardwalk Empire | Little Girl on Boardwalk | "Boardwalk Empire" (S1, E1) |
| 2020 | We Are Who We Are | Britney Orton | series co-star |
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American filmmaker. He emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
Mary Kay Place is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Loretta Haggers on the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a role that won her the 1977 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series. Her numerous film appearances include Private Benjamin (1980), The Big Chill (1983), Captain Ron (1992) and Francis Ford Coppola's 1997 drama The Rainmaker. Place also recorded three studio albums for Columbia Records, one in the Haggers persona, which included the Top Ten country music hit "Baby Boy". For her performance in Diane (2018), Place won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress.
Domenica Cameron-Scorsese is an American actress and filmmaker. Her acting career started with small roles in Cape Fear (1991) and The Age of Innocence (1993), both directed by her father Martin Scorsese.
Maude Annabelle Apatow is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Lexi Howard in the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–present).
Zachary Michael "Zach" King is an American internet personality based in Los Angeles. He is most known for his "magic vines," which are six-second videos digitally edited to look as if he is doing magic. He calls his videos "digital sleight of hand." He began posting videos on YouTube in 2008 and in 2013 he started posting videos to Vine. King posted his first video to TikTok in 2016, and has since attracted over 90 million followers, making him the sixth most-followed individual on the platform.
Ariel Rebecca Martin, known professionally as Baby Ariel, is an American social media personality who rose to fame after posting lip-syncing videos on the defunct video sharing app Musical.ly. She was recognized as one of the most influential people on the Internet by Time magazine in 2017, and she was featured on Forbes 2017 list of top entertainment influencers.
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. It can be accessed with a smart phone app.
Nia DaCosta is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. She made her feature film debut as a writer and director for her crime thriller film Little Woods (2018). Nia garnered wide acclaim for winning the Nora Ephron Prize for Female Filmmakers at the Tribeca Film Festival. DaCosta became the youngest black female director to hit No. 1 at the box office for the weekend opening of her horror mystery film Candyman (2021). She was the first black woman to direct a Marvel film, The Marvels (2023); which would go on to be one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. She is currently in production on an adaptation of Hedda Gabler.
Charli Grace D'Amelio is an American social media personality. She was a competitive dancer for over a decade before starting her social media career in 2019, when she began posting dance videos on the video-sharing platform TikTok. She quickly amassed a large following and subsequently became the most-followed creator on the platform in March 2020 until she was surpassed by Khaby Lame in June 2022. With over 151 million followers, she is the second most-followed person on TikTok, as of 2024.
Addison Rae Easterling is an American pop singer, actress and dancer. Rae rose to fame on TikTok and has amassed over 88 million followers, making her the fifth most-followed individual on the platform.
Nicole Sanchez, better known as Neekolul, is an American internet personality, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber. In March 2020, her popularity online rose when she uploaded a TikTok featuring her lip syncing to the song "Oki Doki Boomer" while wearing a Bernie 2020 crop top; this TikTok was a direct reference to the "OK boomer" Internet meme that was popularized in late 2019. In July 2020, she was signed as a content creator for the gaming organization 100 Thieves. In 2023, she left 100 Thieves.
Tabitha Bonita Brown is an American actress, Emmy winning host, social media personality, entrepreneur, & author. She creates online video content incorporating veganism, humor and motivational speaking. Brown has over 5 million followers on TikTok and over 4.2 million followers on Instagram as of March 2023. She has been described by HuffPost as "America's Mom" and her content has been characterized by critics as being "comforting" and "calming". She is the host of the Food Network’s first plant-based cooking competition It’s CompliPlated and host of the Emmy winning YouTube children’s show Tab Time.
Denarie Bautista Taylor, known professionally as Bella Poarch, is an American social media personality and singer. On August 17, 2020, she created the most liked video on TikTok, in which she lip syncs to the song "M to the B" by British rapper Millie B. She is the most followed TikTok contributor from the Philippines. In May 2021, she released her debut single "Build a Bitch".
Victoria Beverley Walker, known professionally as PinkPantheress, is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her songs, which are frequently short in length and include samples of music from the 1990s and 2000s, span a number of genres, including bedroom pop, drum and bass, alt-pop, and 2-step garage.
Blu DeTiger is an American singer and bass guitarist based in New York City.
It Ends with Us is a romance novel by Colleen Hoover, published by Atria Books on August 2, 2016. Based on the relationship between her mother and father, Hoover described it as "the hardest book I've ever written."
Libs of TikTok is a handle for various far-right and anti-LGBT social-media accounts operated by Chaya Raichik, a former real estate agent. Raichik uses the accounts to repost content created by left-wing and LGBT people on TikTok, and on other social-media platforms, often with hostile, mocking, or derogatory commentary. The accounts promote hate speech and transphobia, and spread false claims, especially relating to medical care of transgender children. The Twitter account, also known by the handle @LibsofTikTok, has nearly 3 million followers as of February 2024 and has become influential among American conservatives and the political right. Libs of TikTok's social-media accounts have received several temporary suspensions and a permanent suspension from TikTok.
Countess Maria Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck, known as Lara Cosima, is a German-American model, socialite, and social media influencer. In 2023, she was selected to open Le Bal des débutantes in Paris, where she was presented as a debutante. She made her modeling debut in 2024 at Paris Fashion Week.
Donna Ludovica di Sannazzaro Natta dei conti di Giarole is an Italian TikToker. In 2021, she created the TikTok channel The Castle Diary, where she makes videos about life in her family's ancestral home, the Castello Sannazzaro di Giarole.
Fish Out of Water is a 2023 short drama film directed by Francesca Scorsese. It follows Lexi, a struggling young mom played by Jade Pettyjohn, who has an opportunity to reconnect with her estranged family after she's approached by her now-sober father with news of her mother's failing health.