Nadia Tereszkiewicz

Tereszkiewicz was born in Versailles, France, to a Finnish mother and a Polish father,^[3][4] who named her after a character from the 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov film Burnt by the Sun.^[2] Tereszkiewicz dreamed of becoming a dancer as a child and studied dance at summer courses in Mikkeli and Savonlinna while visiting Finland.^[5] She practised dance from age 4 to 18,^[3][4] attending the École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower and then Canada's National Ballet School.^[5][6] She then took hypokhâgne-khâgne with an option in theatre at the Lycée Molière in Paris,^[7] and a classe libre at the Cours Florent, in Paris.^[6][3] Her mother tongues are French and Finnish,^[8] and she also speaks English and Italian.^[3]

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.^[9][10][4]

In 2019, Tereszkiewicz appeared in Dominik Moll's Only the Animals, which earned her a Best Actress award at the Tokyo International Film Festival^[11] and inclusion in the list of revelations by the 2020 Césars.^[12] In 2020, she appeared in the French-Israeli miniseries Possessions in a leading role alongside Reda Kateb.^[3] 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.^[2] In 2023, she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Forever Young.^[13]

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.^[14]

In 2025, Tereszkiewicz was appointed to the jury of the Progressive Cinema Competition at the 20th Rome Film Festival.^[15]