Francesca Scorsese

Francesca Scorsese (born November 16, 1999) is an American actress, filmmaker, and TikTok creator known for co-starring in the HBO series We Are Who We Are and for making social media videos with her father, filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

Francesca Scorsese is the daughter of Helen Morris, a book editor, and film director Martin Scorsese. She has two half-sisters on her father's side, Cathy and Domenica.

Scorsese shot her first footage when she was three years old and continued making home videos with her father. She appeared briefly in some of her father's films, including The Aviator, The Departed, and Hugo. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood stars. She had play dates with Cate Blanchett's children. Robert De Niro is her godfather and when she was growing up, she called Leonardo DiCaprio "Uncle Leo". She told Nylon magazine that "my dad was editing The Wolf of Wall Street while I was doing homework on the staircase and all I could hear was sex scenes."

As an adolescent, Scorsese watched films with her family every weekend. She attended film-related summer programs at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and the New York Film Academy. In 2018, she enrolled at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2023 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Scorsese began posting videos of her father in 2015 on the defunct lip-syncing app Dubsmash. She chose an audio track called "Disco Disco Party Party", which, she later told GQ, her father "thought was the funniest thing ever." She made her father join Instagram as well as the movie rating app Letterboxd.

In 2019, Scorsese was cast as high school student Britney Orton in the HBO series We Are Who We Are, which premiered on September 14, 2020. When director Luca Guadagnino cast her without knowing her last name, she said that "it was one of the first times I was proud of myself."

In December 2019, after Martin Scorsese said in an interview that he did not consider Marvel films to be cinema and wrote an op-ed in The New York Times clarifying his position, Francesca attracted media attention by humorously posting a photo on Instagram of her father's Christmas presents, which she had wrapped in Marvel-themed paper.

Scorsese's short film Fish Out of Water, which she created as a thesis, premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner. It was also shown at the Tribeca Festival. The film depicts a young mother who learns that her own mother is dying and has the chance to reconnect with her family. The film was partially inspired by Francesca's experience with her own mother, Helen Morris, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1990.