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Audrey Tautou
Audrey Tautou at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival
Born
Audrey Justine Tautou

9 August 1978
Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France
OccupationActress
Years active1996–present

Audrey Justine Tautou (Template:IPA-fr; born 9 August in 1978 [1][2]) is a French film actress, best known for playing the title character in the award-winning 2001 film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Sophie Neveu in the 2006 thriller The Da Vinci Code, Irène in Priceless (2006) and Coco Chanel in Coco avant Chanel. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in Venus Beauty Institute (1999).

Early life

Tautou was born in Beaumont, in the Puy-de-Dôme département of Auvergne, and was raised in Montluçon[3] in nearby Allier, Auvergne. Her father is a dental surgeon and her mother is a teacher.[4] Tautou showed an interest in acting at an early age and started her acting lessons at the Cours Florent.[5] She is one of several famous actors to have attended Cours Florent (others including Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil and Guillaume Canet).

Career

Audrey Tautou at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1998, Tautou participated in a Star Search-like competition sponsored by Canal+ called "Jeunes Premiers" (The Young Debut) and won Best Young Actress at the 9th Béziers Festival of Young Actors. Tonie Marshall gave her a role in the César-winning Venus Beauty Institute (1999, aka Vénus beauté (institut)). In 2000, she won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as her country's most promising young film actress.

In 2001, Tautou rose to international fame for her performance as the eccentric lead in the romantic comedy Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie). In June 2004, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).[6]

In 2005, Tautou worked in her first full Hollywood production, opposite Tom Hanks, in the film version of Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and released in May 2006. She acted alongside Gad Elmaleh in Pierre Salvadori's Hors de prix (Priceless), released 13 December 2006. The film has been compared to Breakfast at Tiffany's.[7]

Tautou starred with Guillaume Canet in Claude Berri's Ensemble, c'est tout in 2007, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Anna Gavalda.

Tautou played the lead role in the biopic of fashion designer Coco Chanel, titled Coco avant Chanel, and directed by Anne Fontaine.[8][9][10][11] Filming began in Paris in September 2008, and released in France on April 22, 2009. The script is partially based on Edmonde Charles-Roux’s book “L’Irrégulière” (”The Non-Conformist”). As part of promoting the film, Tautou was named as the next spokesmodel for Chanel No. 5, replacing Nicole Kidman. She was directed in the advertisement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with whom she worked on Amélie and A Very Long Engagement. The advertisement was released in 2009 to coincide with the film's release.[12][13]

She appeared in the video of "I Love Your Smile", a song by British singer-songwriter Charlie Winston.[14]

Personal life

Her favourite authors are Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Paul Auster, and Timothy Zahn; and her favourite poets are Charles Baudelaire and Tristan Tzara.[citation needed] She was brought up attending church, though she has now stated that she is "not officially" a Catholic. She is fascinated by monkeys.[15] She takes pictures of each reporter who interviews her and keeps them in a scrapbook.

Tautou says she still considers France her base, and plans to pursue a career predominantly there rather than crossing over to the United States. As she told Stevie Wong of The Straits Times:

"I am, at the end of the day, a French actress. I am not saying I will never shoot an English-language movie again, but my home, my community, my career is rooted in France. I would never move to Los Angeles."[16]

After the premiere of the film Amélie she travelled to the jungles of Indonesia to help with the preservation of a monkey sanctuary.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1996 Coeur de cible TV movie
1997 La vérité est un vilain défaut La standardiste TV movie
1997 Les cordier, juge et flic Léa Episode: "Le crime d'à côté"
1998 La vieille barrière La jeune fille du quartier TV movie
1998 Bébés boum Elsa TV movie
1998 Chaos technique Lisa TV movie
1998 Julie Lescaut Tracy Episode: "Bal masqué"
1999 Le boiteux: Baby blues Blandine Piancet TV movie
1999 Vénus beauté (institut) Marie English title: Venus Beauty Institute
1999 Triste à mourir Caro Short film
2000 Épouse-moi Marie-Ange
2000 Pretty Devils Anne-Sophie
2000 The Libertine Julie d'Holbach
2000 Happenstance Irène
2001 Amélie Amélie Poulain
2001 Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite Michèle English title: God Is Great and I'm Not
2002 He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not Angélique
2002 L'Auberge Espagnole Martine English title: Pot Luck or The Spanish Apartment
2002 Dirty Pretty Things Senay Gelik
2003 Les Marins perdus Lalla
2003 Not on the Lips Huguette Verberie
2003 Happy End Val Chipzik
2004 A Very Long Engagement Mathilde
2005 The Russian Dolls Martine
2006 The Da Vinci Code Sophie Neveu
2006 Priceless Irène
2007 Ensemble, c'est tout Camille Fauque English title: Hunting and Gathering
2009 Coco Before Chanel Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel
2010 Full Treatment Emilie Dandrieux
2012 Des vents contraires TBA Filming
2012 La délicatesse TBA Pre-production

Awards

Wins

1999
Cabourg Romantic Film Festival Award, for Venus Beauty Institute
2000
César Award, for Venus Beauty Institute
Lumiere Award, for Venus Beauty Institute
SACD Award
2002
CFCA Award
Lumiere Award, for Amélie
Sant Jordi, for Amélie
2007
NRJ Ciné Award, for Priceless (shared with Gad Elmaleh)

Nominations

2001
European Film Award, for Amélie
2002
Satellite Award, for Amélie
PFCS Award, for Amélie
OFCS Award, for Amélie
BAFTA, for Amélie
Empire Award, for Amélie
César Award, for Amélie
2003
European Film Award, for Dirty Pretty Things
2005
European Film Award, for A Very Long Engagement
César Award, for A Very Long Engagement
2010
César Award, for Coco Before Chanel
BAFTA, for Coco Before Chanel

References

  1. ^ Vanderschelden, Isabelle (2006), Amélie ; Le Fabuleux Destin D' Amélie Poulain, I. B. Tauris, p. 21, ISBN 9781845113759
  2. ^ Audrey Tautou, Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved 2008-08-22 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference montlucon was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Biographie, Fan de Andrey Tautou, retrieved 2009-10-28
  5. ^ Les florentins qui font la réputation de nore école, Cours Florent, retrieved 2009-10-28
  6. ^ Academy Invites 127 to Membership
  7. ^ Staff (April 4, 2008). "'Priceless' romance tale". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
  8. ^ Reynolds, Simon (August 27, 2008). "Warner Bros. backs Chanel biopic". Digital Spy.
  9. ^ Tautou at Imdb
  10. ^ Coco Before Chanel at Imdb
  11. ^ Audrey Tautou: The New Coco Chanel
  12. ^ Snead, Elizabeth (2008-05-05), Is it a bird or a plane? Sarah Jessica Parker won't save the Costume Gala?, Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2008-05-21 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ Audrey Tautou new face of Chanel, China Daily, 2008-05-16, retrieved 2008-05-21 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  14. ^ Audrey Tautou's in music video for Charlie Winston, BBC News {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  15. ^ WENN (May 11, 2006). "Tautou dismisses Da Vinci controversy". Actress Archives.com. UGO Entertainment.
  16. ^ WONG, STEVIE (May 28, 2006). "From Amelie to Sophie". The Straits Times, Singapore/Asia News Network. The Star Online eCentral.
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