<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2007--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Known for </Th> <Td> Roles of Suzanne in The Sea Wall and of the mermaid Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides </Td> </Tr> <P> Àstrid Bergès - Frisbey (born 26 May 1986) is a French - Spanish actress and model . She is best known for playing Suzanne in The Sea Wall, the mermaid Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Sofi in I Origins . She is the recipient of the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 2009 and the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and a nomination at the 2016 David di Donatello in Rome . </P> <P> Àstrid Bergès - Frisbey was born in Barcelona, Spain, to a Spanish father and a French - American mother . She is the eldest among three daughters . Following her parents' divorce when she was 2 years old, she moved to southwestern France when she was 5 . She was raised in a small town near La Rochelle, where she acted in school plays as a hobby, but never saw acting as a possible career path as the countryside where she lived was very different from the movie industry, describing how she thought acting was "not a profession; it was something abstract". Her father later moved to the Dominican Republic, where she spent five summers working as a waitress . At age 17, she moved to Paris by herself to pursue a career in Osteopathy, but found herself moving around a lot, without knowing anybody in the area . Shortly after, her father died at age 46 . Due to the incident, she describes realizing that life is too short and that her true ambition was acting . After graduation, she went straight to drama school . She is fluent in Catalan, Spanish and French . She started learning English for her role in Pirates of the Caribbean . </P>

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