Emma de Caunes
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 Emma de Caunes at the 2010 César Awards ceremony |
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| Born | 9 September 1976 Paris, France |
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Sinclair (2001–2005) (separated) 1 child, Jamie Hewlett (2011-present) |
Emma de Caunes (born 9 September 1976) is a French film actress. She is best known for playing the role of Sabine in Mr. Bean's Holiday.
[edit] Life and career
De Caunes was born in Paris, the daughter of actor/director Antoine de Caunes and director/graphic designer Gaëlle Royer. She was married to singer Sinclair (real name Mathieu Blanc-Francard) who is the father of her daughter Nina (born in Paris, October 2002). She married Jamie Hewlett in September 2011.
De Caunes's career began at the age of ten courtesy of a role granted by Michèle Reiser, her godmother. The character she played had a boy friend named "Arvin" . She obtained her Baccalaureate in film in 1995.
De Caunes appeared in various advertisements before landing her first major film role in Sylvie Verheyde's Un Frère. After her performance in the 1997 film, de Caunes won Most Promising Actress at the 1998 César awards and Best Actress at the 1997 Paris Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Actress in the Acteurs à l'Écran awards. She won the 2002 Prix Romy Schneider, an award given annually to a promising young actress.
She had a main role in the comedy film Mr. Bean's Holiday, in which she played the love interest of Mr. Bean.
[edit] Filmography
- Le Bruit des gens autour (2008) – Maud
- Coluche, l'histoire d'un mec (2008) – a nurse
- Rien dans les poches (2008) (TV) – Marie Manikowski
- Days of Darkness (aka The Age of Ignorance) (2007)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
- Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
- The Science of Sleep (2006)
- Short Order (2005)
- Kaamelott (2005) (in 2 TV episodes)
- Ma mère (2004)
- Beyond Good & Evil (2003) (voice)
- Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)
- Lovers of the Nile (2002)
- Princesses (2000)
- Unleaded (2000)
- South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999) (voice as The Mole's mom)
- Pretend I'm Not Here (2000)
- Le nombril de l'Univers (2000) (director, writer)
- Milestones (1999)
- Mondialito (1999)
- Restons groupés (1999)
- La voie est libre (1998)
- 3 petits points la lune (1998)
- Beaucoup trop loin (1998)
- Un frère (Brother) (1997)
- Along the Freeway (1997)
- Velvet 99 (1996)
- L'échappée belle (1996)
- Vladimir de trop (1996)
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