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Marion Cotillard (born September 30, 1975) is an Academy Award and César Award winning French actress, perhaps best known for her BAFTA, César and Academy Award winning performance as Édith Piaf in 2007's La Vie En Rose.
Biography
Career
Cotillard began acting during her childhood, appearing on stage in one of her father's plays.[1] Her career as a film actress began in the mid-1990s. She rose to prominence in the late 1990s when she was cast in the Luc Besson production Taxi (1998) as Lili Bertineau, a role that she reprised in two sequels. She then earned very good reviews and the attention of cinephiles via her portrayal of twins who exchange their lives after one of them dies in Les Jolies Choses.
Although more widely known in France, Cotillard is building an international presence (she won both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best actress). In 2003, her reputation was considerably enhanced by her role in Tim Burton's film Big Fish, opposite Billy Crudup and Albert Finney, which introduced her to English-speaking audiences. It also became her first both critical and financially successful film. This led to two more critically successful films into 2004, known as A Very Long Engagement, where Cotillard further demonstrated the range of her abilities by playing the murderous Tina Lombardi, and the drama mystery Innocence. She also played Sophie Kowalski in Yann Samuell's Jeux d'enfants (Love Me If You Dare), which proved her ability to play a complex yet appealing modern romantic lead, though the film received mixed reviews. She recently appeared in Ridley Scott's A Good Year.[2]
She was chosen by director Olivier Dahan to portray the iconic French chanteuse Édith Piaf in the biopic La Môme (English title: La Vie En Rose) before he had even met her, saying that in the eyes of Edith Piaf he noticed a similarity with Marion's own. The role would utterly change her life and career as an actress, for her Oscar-winning performance, as stated by the great theatre director Sir Trevor Nunn as "one of the greatest performances on film ever". It was dubbed "the most awaited film of 2007" in France, where critics said that she had reincarnated Edith Piaf to sing once last time on stage.
she won an oscar for best actress in a leading role for her performance in "la vie en rose" at the 2008 oscars. Cotillard is currently in talks to play Luisa Contini in the film adaptation of the Tony Award winning musical Nine (musical). The part of Luisa Contini had previously been played by Karen Akers in the original 1982 production and more recently Mary Stuart Masterson in the Tony-Award winning 2003 revival also starring Antonio Banderas, Jane Krakowski, Chita Rivera, and Laura Benanti. The film is to be directed by DGA winner Rob Marshall and it is scheduled for release in 2008.
On February 10, 2008, Cotillard became the first French actress to be awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role since the BAFTAs combined the Best British and Best Foreign actress award into one Best Actress category, beginning in 1969. She is also the first actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for a French language performance since Catherine Deneuve for Indochine in 1992. Also, she is the first actress to win a Golden Globe for a foreign language performance since 1972, when Liv Ullmann won for The Emigrants. As La Vie En Rose was also a Czech production, Marion Cotillard was nominated for the Czech Lion for "Best Actress in a Leading Role" on February 21. On February 22, 2008 she was awarded the "César" (French equivalent of Oscars) for Best Actress.
Personal life
Cotillard was born in Paris and grew up around Orléans, Loiret in an artistically inclined, "bustling, creative household".[2] Her father, Jean-Claude Cotillard, is an actor, teacher, 2006 Molière Award-winning-director, and former mime, and her mother, Niseema Theillaud, is also an actress and drama teacher.[2] She has two younger twin siblings named Quentin and Guillaume. Quentin is a sculptor and painter living in San Franciso, California [3] with his Irish-American wife, Elaine O'Malley Cotillard, "a former Dutch National Ballet dancer who grew up in Marin and is now a San Francisco fashion designer".[4] Guillaume is a writer. She is currently dating Guillaume Canet.
Cotillard is interested in environmental activism and has served as a spokesperson for Greenpeace. She also allowed the organisation to use her apartment to test products. She is a fan of Canadian singer Hawksley Workman and has appeared in two of his music videos.
Filmography
- Taxi (1998)
- Furia (1999)
- Marquis, Le (2000)
- Quelques jours de trop (2000)
- Taxi 2 (2000)
- Heureuse (2001)
- Lisa (2001)
- Boomer (2001)
- Jolies choses, Les (2001)
- Une affaire privée (2002)
- Taxi 3 (2003)
- Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants) (2003)
- Big Fish (2003)
- Innocence (2004)
- A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) (2004)
- Cavalcade (2005)
- Edy (2005)
- Ma vie en l'air (2005)
- Mary (2005)
- Sauf le respect que je vous dois (2005)
- Boîte noire, La (2005)
- Dikkenek (2006)
- Fair Play (2006)
- A Good Year (2006)
- La Vie En Rose (La môme) (2007)
- Nine (2009)
- Public Enemies (2009)
Awards
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London Film Critics Circle Awards
Boston Society of Film Critics
Cabourg Romantic Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Czech Lion
Prix Lumière
Etoiles d'Or du Cinéma
National Society of Film Critics (First Runner Up, Best Actress) Kansas City Film Critics Circle
Golden Satellite
African American Film Critics Association
InterNational Online Cinema Awards
Hollywood Film Festival
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
Verona Love Screens Film Festival
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References
- ^ Bunbury, Stephanie (2007-07-15). "Birds of a feather". The Age.com.au. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b c Gilbey, Ryan (2007-07-07). "Marion has no regrets either". News.com.au. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
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- ^ http://origin.marinij.com/lifestyles/ci_8134790