sentences:  Her mother, writer Françoise Mesquida, is French/Spanish and her father is Italian/American, but Mesquida never got to know him.Mesquida is fluent in English and French, and she also speaks Spanish, Italian and German.She was discovered at the age of 11, while walking on a road with her mom, by French director Manuel Pradal who was in the middle of the casting process for his movie "Marie from the Bay of Angels" ("Marie Baie des Anges") at the time.