Born in Canada in 1972, from a United Nations diplomat father of Senegalese origin and a physiotherapist from France, its when she joined her sister Karine on a film set in Guyana, that Virginie Silla-Besson fall in love with the cinema industry and decides to become a film producer.

 

In 1998, she became a scrirpt reader for Gaumont, when she met Luc Besson for the first time in 1990, who hired her as assistant, then producer, with his company Europa Corp.

 

She produces large range of films; Revolver by Guy Ritchie (2005), Love and Other Disasters (2006), From Paris with Love (2008), Les Aventures d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010), The Lady (2011), The Family (2013), Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock (2011), . In August 2014, Lucy was released on French screens after having had a huge success at the American box office.

 

With Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) she produces the largest independant cinema film budget (around 180 million $) in history, in order to help Luc Besson brings the iconic scifi comics of Mézières and Christin to the silver screen.