Esse Lawson

Career overview

Esse Lawson is a French actress born in 1980 in Garges-lès-Gonesse in the Val-d'Oise region. She comes from a family of artists, with a paternal grandmother who formed her own theatre and dance troupe named Dorcas-Lawson. Her father is Togolese and her mother is of Ghanaian origin, and she grew up between the countryside and Sarcelles. Before beginning her acting career, Lawson worked as a hostess and posed for photos before a casting director noticed her through the association Music and.

As an actress, Lawson has accumulated several known credits across film and television. Her film work includes appearances in La squale in the year 2000, as well as Filles perdues, cheveux gras and Peau d'ange in 2002. Additional works associated with her acting career include Last Chance Saloon, Once Upon an Angel, The Idol, Orbital Tango, The Hounds, and Ladies of the Law. In television, she is noted for her role as Aminating, also credited as Aminata, in a cast that included Mimie Mathy as Joséphine Delamarre, Philippe Caroit as Thomas, Geneviève Mnich as Claudine, and Jean-Roch Pirot as Adrien.