Astrid Bergès-Frisbey Roles: Where You Know The King Arthur Star

Astrid Bergès-Frisbey most recent role was in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, but what other films has the French-Spanish actress appeared in? King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was helmed by Brit director Guy Ritchie and released in the 2017 summer blockbuster season. Charlie Hunnam starred as the titular king and Jude Law took the role of his villainous uncle Vortigern, who killed his own brother to become king. Bergès-Frisbey played a powerful, mysterious woman known as The Mage who helps King Arthur on his quest to destroy Vortigern while Eric Bana, Djimon Hounsou, and Aidan Gillen appeared in supporting roles.

Despite a talented cast and big-budget, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword didn’t become the blockbuster hit it hoped to be – quite the opposite in fact. It was a box office bomb, grossing just $148 million worldwide against its $170 million budget, and found itself on the receiving end of some rather brutal reviews. Just like that the six-film franchise Guy Ritchie had planned for King Arthur was over before it had really even begun.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword probably wasn’t a career highlight for Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, but luckily she has a few more noteworthy roles in better movies under her belt. Her first feature film was Cambodian director Rithy Panh’s The Sea Wall. Set in French-colonized Cambodia the film starred Isabelle Huppert (Greta) as an expatriate eking out a living as a rice farmer with Bergès-Frisbey taking the role of her teenage daughter Suzanne.

In 2011 Bergès-Frisbey made her English-language debut in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides when she was cast as the beautiful but deadly mermaid Syrena – a role for which she had to learn English. A few years later she starred in director Mike Cahill’s 2014 arty sci-fi drama I Origins alongside Michael Pitt, Brit Marling and Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead). Bergès-Frisbey played Sofi in the film, the girlfriend of Pitt’s character – a Ph.D. student whose research into the evolution of the human eye ends up challenging his spiritual beliefs.

The following year she received critical acclaim for her role as Nadine in Gomorra director Claudio Cupellini’s drama Alaska and received a Best Actress nomination at the David di Donatello Awards – Italy’s version of the Oscars. Astrid Bergès-Frisbey’s upcoming projects include a role in REC director Jaume Balagueró’s heist thriller Way Down in which she’ll star alongside Famke Janssen and Freddie Highmore.