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'''Marion Cotillard''' (born [[September 30]], [[1975]]) is an [[Academy Award]]-, [[BAFTA]]-, double [[César Award]]-, [[Golden Globe]]-winning and [[Berlin International Film Festival]] [[Best Actress]] nominated [[France|French]] actress, best known for her landmark role as [[Édith Piaf]] in ''[[La Vie En Rose (film)|La Vie En Rose]]'' ([[2007 in film|2007]]).
'''Marion Cotillard''' (born [[September 30]], [[1975]]) is an [[Academy Award]]-, [[BAFTA]]-, double [[César Award]]-, [[Golden Globe]]-winning and [[Berlin International Film Festival]] [[Best Actress]] nominated [[France|French]] actress, best known for her landmark role as [[Édith Piaf]] in ''[[La Vie En Rose (film)|La Vie En Rose]]'' ([[2007 in film|2007]]).


Marion Cotillard is the second French actress to win an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] (after [[Simone Signoret]] in 1959). She is the first Best Actress winner in a non-English language performance since [[Sophia Loren]]'s win in 1961. She is also the first and so far only winner of an Academy Award for a performance in the French language.
After [[Claudette Colbert]] in 1934 and [[Simone Signoret]] in 1959, Marion Cotillard is the sthird French actress to win an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]]. She is the first Best Actress winner in a non-English language performance since [[Sophia Loren]]'s win in 1961. She is also the first and so far only winner of an Academy Award for a performance in the French language.

Opposite [[Simone Signoret]] and [[Juliette Binoche]], Marion Cotillard is now amongst the French group of Academy Award winners. On Oscar night, her career in France changed forever, making her the darling of a new generation of French cinema{{Fact|date=February 2008}}, as the only living native to win a Best Actress Academy Award, and more importantly, in the French language.


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 18:16, 28 February 2008

Marion Cotillard
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Marion Cotillard, 2006

Marion Cotillard (born September 30, 1975) is an Academy Award-, BAFTA-, double César Award-, Golden Globe-winning and Berlin International Film Festival Best Actress nominated French actress, best known for her landmark role as Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose (2007).

After Claudette Colbert in 1934 and Simone Signoret in 1959, Marion Cotillard is the sthird French actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She is the first Best Actress winner in a non-English language performance since Sophia Loren's win in 1961. She is also the first and so far only winner of an Academy Award for a performance in the French language.

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[citation needed]. In 2003, she had a small role in Tim Burton's film, Big Fish, which introduced her to English-speaking audiences. It was also her first both critically and financially successful film.[citation needed] She also played Sophie Kowalski in Yann Samuell's Jeux d'enfants (English title: 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 appeared in two critically successful films in 2004: A Very Long Engagement, where Cotillard further demonstrated the range of her abilities by playing the murderous Tina Lombardi (garnering the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), and the drama mystery Innocence. In 2006, she appeared in Ridley Scott's A Good Year.[2]

She was chosen by director Olivier Dahan to portray the iconic French singer 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.[citation needed] Her portrayal was widely praised, including by the eminent theatre director Sir Trevor Nunn, who described it as "one of the greatest performances on film ever."[citation needed] It was dubbed "the most awaited film of 2007" in France, where critics said that she had reincarnated Edith Piaf to sing one last time on stage.[citation needed]

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. 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 Award for Best Actress, and two days later she received the Academy Award for Best Actress after having beaten the frontrunner Julie Christie, Cate Blanchett, Ellen Page and Laura Linney. She is the first French actress to receive an Oscar for a role spoken entirely in French (Claudette Colbert and Simone Signoret earned their Oscar in English-language films).

Cotillard is currently in talks to play Luisa Contini in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Nine. [citation needed]

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, former mime, and 2006 Molière Award-winning director, and her mother, Niseema Theillaud, is also an actress and drama teacher.[2] She has two younger twin brothers, Quentin and Guillaume. Quentin Cotillard is a sculptor and painter living in San Francisco, 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 Cotillard is a writer. [5]

Cotillard is currently dating french actor/director Guillaume Canet, who was her acting partner in the 2003 French film Love me if you dare. [6]Cotillard is interested in environmental activism and has served as a spokesperson for Greenpeace allowing the organization to use her apartment to test products and being among the artists involved in "Dessins pour le climat" (Drawings for Climate), an album project that was released in 2005 and raised money for the environmental activist group. [7] She is a fan of Radiohead, of Canadian singer Hawksley Workman as well and she has appeared in two of his music videos, most notably "No Reason to Cry Out your Eyes (On the Highway Tonight)". [8] Workman even revealed in interviews about his last album Between The Beautifuls that he worked and wrote songs with Cotillard while they both were in Los Angeles during the movie awards season. [9]

Filmography

Awards

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References

  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ a b c Gilbey, Ryan (2007-07-07). "Marion has no regrets either". News.com.au. Retrieved 2007-07-09. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ "Golden Globe's Best Actress Marion Cotillard: 'It Was Like Fireworks'". Foxnews.com. 2008-01-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "French Oscar nominee talks about her depiction of Edith Piaf". Marin Independant Journal. 2008-01-31. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ Marion Cotillard's profile on Screenrush.co.uk http://www.screenrush.co.uk/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=17367.html
  6. ^ Jason Solomons (2008-02-17). "BAFTA trash". The Guardian. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "Five facts about Marion Cotillard". Forbes.com. 2008-02-24. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ 2004 Music Video for Hawksley Workman's song "No reason to cry out your eyes" featuring Marion Cotillard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tup7kMoCSrc
  9. ^ "Hawksley Workman always working". Jam.canoe.ca. 2008-02-15. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
Academy Award
Preceded by Best Actress
2007
for La Vie En Rose 		Succeeded by
TBD
Golden Globe Award
Preceded by Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2007
for La Vie En Rose 		Succeeded by
TBD
BAFTA Award
Preceded by Best Actress in a Leading Role
2007
for La Vie En Rose 		Succeeded by
TBD
César Award
Preceded by
Julie Depardieu
for La Petite Lili
 Best Supporting Actress
2004
for A Very Long Engagement 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Best Actress
2007
for La Vie En Rose 		Succeeded by
TBD
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