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 Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.Raised in Orl��ans, France, she made her acting debut as a child with a role in one of her father's plays. She studied drama at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique in Orl��ans. After small appearances and performances in theater, Cotillard had occasional and minor roles in TV series such as Highlander (1992) and Extr��me limite (1994), but her career as a film actress began in the mid-1990s. While still a teenager, Cotillard made her cinema debut at the age of 18 in the film L'histoire du gar?on qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse (1994), and had small but noticeable roles in films such as Arnaud Desplechin's My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996) and Coline Serreau's comedy The Green Planet (1996).In 1996, she had her first lead role in the TV film Chlo�� (1996), playing the title role - a teenage runaway who is forced into prostitution. Cotillard co-starred opposite Anna Karina, the muse of the Nouvelle Vague.In 1997, she won her first film award at the Festival Rencontres Cin��matographiques d'Istres in France, for her performance as the young imprisoned Nathalie in the short film Affaire class��e (1997). Her first prominent screen role was Lilly Bertineau in G��rard Pir��s's box-office hit Taxi (1998), a role which she reprised in two sequels: Taxi 2 (2000) and Taxi 3 (2003), this role earned her first C��sar award nomination (France's equivalent to the Oscar) for Most Promising Actress in 1999.In 1999, Cotillard starred as Julie Bonzon in the Swiss war drama War in the Highlands (1998). For her performance in the film, she won the Best Actress award at the Autrans Film Festival in France. In 2001, Marion starred in Pretty Things (2001) as the twin sisters Marie and Lucie, and was nominated for her second C��sar award for Most Promising Actress.Cotillard's breakthrough in France came in 2003, when she starred in Yann Samuell's dark romantic comedy Love Me If You Dare (2003), in which she played Sophie Kowalsky, the daughter of Polish immigrants who lives a love-hate relationship with her childhood friend. The film was a box-office hit in France, became a cult film abroad and led Cotillard to bigger projects.Her first Hollywood movie was Tim Burton's Big Fish (2003), in which she played Jos��phine, the wife of William Bloom (played by Billy Crudup). A few years later, Marion starred in Ridley Scott's A Good Year (2006) playing Fanny Chenal, a French caf�� owner who falls in love with Russell Crowe's character. In 2004, she won the Chopard Thophy of Female Revelation at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, Cotillard won the C��sar award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance of Tina Lombardi in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement (2004).In 2007, Cotillard received international recognition for her iconic portrayal of ��dith Piaf in La Vie En Rose (2007). Director Olivier Dahan cast Cotillard to play the legendary French singer because to him, her eyes were like those of "Piaf". The fact that she can sing also helped Cotillard land the role of "Piaf", although most of the singing in the film is that of Piaf's. The role won Cotillard the Academy Award for Best Actress along with a C��sar, a Lumi��re Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe. That made her only the second actress to win an acting Oscar performing in a language other than English next to Sophia Loren (Two Women (1960)). Only two male performers (Roberto Benigni for Life Is Beautiful (1997) and Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974)) have won an Oscar for solely non-English parts. Trevor Nunn called her portrayal of "Piaf" "one of the greatest performances on film ever". At the Berlin International Film Festival, where the film premiered, Cotillard was given a 15-minute standing ovation. When she won the C��sar, Alain Delon presented the award and announced the winner as "La M?me Marion" (The Kid Marion), he also praised her at the stage saying: "Marion, I give you this C��sar. I think this C��sar is for a great great actress, and I know what I'm talking about".Cotillard has worked much more frequently in English-language movies following her Academy Award recognition. In 2009, she acted opposite Johnny Depp in Michael Mann's Public Enemies (2009), and later that year played Luisa Contini in Rob Marshall's musical Nine (2009) and received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Time magazine ranked her as the fifth best performance by a female in 2009. The following year, she took on the main antagonist role, Mal, in Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010), and in 2011 she had memorable parts in Midnight in Paris (2011) and Contagion (2011) and reteamed with Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight Rises (2012).In 2011 and 2012 respectively, Cotillard appeared on the top of Le Figaro's list of the highest paid actors in France, it was the first time in nine years that a female topped the list. Cotillard was also the highest paid foreign actress in Hollywood.In 2012, Cotillard received wide-spread critical acclaim for her role as the legless orca trainer St��phanie in Rust and Bone (2012). The film was a box office hit in France and received a ten-minute standing ovation at the end of its screening at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Cotillard won the Globe de Cristal (France's equivalent to the Golden Globe), the ��toile d'Or award and was nominated for the Golden Globes, SAG, BAFTA, Critics' Choice and C��sar Awards for her performance in the film. Cate Blanchett wrote an op-ed for Variety praising Cotillard's performance in "Rust and Bone", the two actresses competed for the Academy Awards for Best Actress in 2008, Cate was nominated for her performance in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and Marion for her performance in La Vie En Rose (2007) and Cotillard won the Oscar.She had her first leading role in an American movie in 2013, in James Gray's The Immigrant (2013), in which she played Ewa Cybulska, a Polish immigrant who wants to experience the American dream. Cotillard received wide-spread acclaim for her performance in the film at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered, and also won several critics awards. In 2014, Cotillard played Sandra in the Belgian film Two Days, One Night (2014) by the Dardenne brothers. Her performance was unanimously praised at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, earned several critics awards, Cotillard won her first European Award for Best Actress and also received her second Oscar nomination and her sixth C��sar award nomination.In 2015, she played Lady Macbeth opposite Michael Fassbender in Justin Kurzel's Macbeth (2015) and voiced two animated movies: The Little Prince (2015) in which she voiced The Rose, and April and the Extraordinary World (2015), in which she voiced the lead role, Avril. Her 2016 included Nicole Garcia's From the Land of the Moon (2016), Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World (2016), Justin Kurzel's Assassin's Creed (2016), in which she worked again with her Macbeth co-star Michael Fassbender; and Robert Zemeckis's Allied (2016), with Brad Pitt.
Bio:
Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.Raised in Orl��ans, France, she made her acting debut as a child with a role in one of her father's plays. She studied drama at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique in Orl��ans. After small appearances and performances in theater, Cotillard had occasional and minor roles in TV series such as Highlander (1992) and Extr��me limite (1994), but her career as a film actress began in the mid-1990s. While still a teenager, Cotillard made her cinema debut at the age of 18 in the film L'histoire du gar?on qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse (1994), and had small but noticeable roles in films such as Arnaud Desplechin's My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996) and Coline Serreau's comedy The Green Planet (1996).In 1996, she had her first lead role in the TV film Chlo�� (1996), playing the title role - a teenage runaway who is forced into prostitution. Cotillard co-starred opposite Anna Karina, the muse of the Nouvelle Vague.In 1997, she won her first film award at the Festival Rencontres Cin��matographiques d'Istres in France, for her performance as the young imprisoned Nathalie in the short film Affaire class��e (1997). Her first prominent screen role was Lilly Bertineau in G��rard Pir��s's box-office hit Taxi (1998), a role which she reprised in two sequels: Taxi 2 (2000) and Taxi 3 (2003), this role earned her first C��sar award nomination (France's equivalent to the Oscar) for Most Promising Actress in 1999.In 1999, Cotillard starred as Julie Bonzon in the Swiss war drama War in the Highlands (1998). For her performance in the film, she won the Best Actress award at the Autrans Film Festival in France. In 2001, Marion starred in Pretty Things (2001) as the twin sisters Marie and Lucie, and was nominated for her second C��sar award for Most Promising Actress.Cotillard's breakthrough in France came in 2003, when she starred in Yann Samuell's dark romantic comedy Love Me If You Dare (2003), in which she played Sophie Kowalsky, the daughter of Polish immigrants who lives a love-hate relationship with her childhood friend. The film was a box-office hit in France, became a cult film abroad and led Cotillard to bigger projects.Her first Hollywood movie was Tim Burton's Big Fish (2003), in which she played Jos��phine, the wife of William Bloom (played by Billy Crudup). A few years later, Marion starred in Ridley Scott's A Good Year (2006) playing Fanny Chenal, a French caf�� owner who falls in love with Russell Crowe's character. In 2004, she won the Chopard Thophy of Female Revelation at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, Cotillard won the C��sar award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance of Tina Lombardi in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement (2004).In 2007, Cotillard received international recognition for her iconic portrayal of ��dith Piaf in La Vie En Rose (2007). Director Olivier Dahan cast Cotillard to play the legendary French singer because to him, her eyes were like those of "Piaf". The fact that she can sing also helped Cotillard land the role of "Piaf", although most of the singing in the film is that of Piaf's. The role won Cotillard the Academy Award for Best Actress along with a C��sar, a Lumi��re Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe. That made her only the second actress to win an acting Oscar performing in a language other than English next to Sophia Loren (Two Women (1960)). Only two male performers (Roberto Benigni for Life Is Beautiful (1997) and Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974)) have won an Oscar for solely non-English parts. Trevor Nunn called her portrayal of "Piaf" "one of the greatest performances on film ever". At the Berlin International Film Festival, where the film premiered, Cotillard was given a 15-minute standing ovation. When she won the C��sar, Alain Delon presented the award and announced the winner as "La M?me Marion" (The Kid Marion), he also praised her at the stage saying: "Marion, I give you this C��sar. I think this C��sar is for a great great actress, and I know what I'm talking about".Cotillard has worked much more frequently in English-language movies following her Academy Award recognition. In 2009, she acted opposite Johnny Depp in Michael Mann's Public Enemies (2009), and later that year played Luisa Contini in Rob Marshall's musical Nine (2009) and received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Time magazine ranked her as the fifth best performance by a female in 2009. The following year, she took on the main antagonist role, Mal, in Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010), and in 2011 she had memorable parts in Midnight in Paris (2011) and Contagion (2011) and reteamed with Christopher Nolan in The Dark Knight Rises (2012).In 2011 and 2012 respectively, Cotillard appeared on the top of Le Figaro's list of the highest paid actors in France, it was the first time in nine years that a female topped the list. Cotillard was also the highest paid foreign actress in Hollywood.In 2012, Cotillard received wide-spread critical acclaim for her role as the legless orca trainer St��phanie in Rust and Bone (2012). The film was a box office hit in France and received a ten-minute standing ovation at the end of its screening at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Cotillard won the Globe de Cristal (France's equivalent to the Golden Globe), the ��toile d'Or award and was nominated for the Golden Globes, SAG, BAFTA, Critics' Choice and C��sar Awards for her performance in the film. Cate Blanchett wrote an op-ed for Variety praising Cotillard's performance in "Rust and Bone", the two actresses competed for the Academy Awards for Best Actress in 2008, Cate was nominated for her performance in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and Marion for her performance in La Vie En Rose (2007) and Cotillard won the Oscar.She had her first leading role in an American movie in 2013, in James Gray's The Immigrant (2013), in which she played Ewa Cybulska, a Polish immigrant who wants to experience the American dream. Cotillard received wide-spread acclaim for her performance in the film at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered, and also won several critics awards. In 2014, Cotillard played Sandra in the Belgian film Two Days, One Night (2014) by the Dardenne brothers. Her performance was unanimously praised at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, earned several critics awards, Cotillard won her first European Award for Best Actress and also received her second Oscar nomination and her sixth C��sar award nomination.In 2015, she played Lady Macbeth opposite Michael Fassbender in Justin Kurzel's Macbeth (2015) and voiced two animated movies: The Little Prince (2015) in which she voiced The Rose, and April and the Extraordinary World (2015), in which she voiced the lead role, Avril. Her 2016 included Nicole Garcia's From the Land of the Moon (2016), Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World (2016), Justin Kurzel's Assassin's Creed (2016), in which she worked again with her Macbeth co-star Michael Fassbender; and Robert Zemeckis's Allied (2016), with Brad Pitt.
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Is one of six performers to win an Oscar playing a character that mostly spoke in a foreign language. The others are Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni, Benicio Del Toro and Christoph Waltz.Is the owner of two restaurants in France: Jaja and Glou.Is a "injection-phobic" and stated that she won't have Botox, plastic surgery or anything else that you put inside yourself to look younger.She plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and tambourine. She learned how to play the piano at home when she was a kid and learned to play the cello for her role as a soloist in the film You and Me (2006).Learned to speak her Polish dialogue (20 pages) in The Immigrant (2013) in only two months.Was considered for the role of Hanna Schmitz in The Reader (2008) after Nicole Kidman dropped out due to pregnancy. However the part eventually went to Kate Winslet. In 2009, Cotillard presented and gave the Academy Award for Best Actress to Kate Winslet for her performance in The Reader (2008).She and Adrien Brody are the only actors to win both a C��sar and an Oscar for the same performance. Cotillard won both awards in 2008 for La Vie En Rose (2007) and Brody won in 2003 for The Pianist (2002).Filmed The Dark Knight Rises (2012) in USA and Rust and Bone (2012) in France at the same time and few months after she gave birth to her son, Marcel. She was flying back and forth between USA and France to shoot both movies.First and so far the only artist to win a Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for a performance in the French language and is also the first leading lady to receive the Best Actress Oscar for a non-English speaking role since Sophia Loren in 1962 for Two Women (1960).Director James Gray who directed her in The Immigrant (2013), stated that Cotillard is the best actor he ever worked with. Gray wrote the character Ewa Cybulska especially for her.Started taking Danish lessons after having seen The Celebration (1998), planned on meeting Thomas Vinterberg during the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 and also started learning Spanish after having seen Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998) by Julio Medem.On November 15, 2013, she caged herself near Paris's Louvre museum to demand the freeing of 30 Greenpeace activists jailed in Russia over an Arctic protest. She entered the cage and held a banner proclaiming: "I am a climate defender." A few days later, the activists were released.Turned down a role in Bel Ami (2012). When Robert Pattinson met Cotillard in Cannes and told her he was doing a film of Guy de Maupassant's classic French novel, she expressed bemusement: "But why make it in English?".Is a fan of David Bowie, Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Otis Redding, Radiohead and Elvis Presley.Was six months pregnant with her son Marcel when she completed filming on Contagion (2011).Three of her films, Chlo�� (1996), Love Me If You Dare (2003) and Inception (2010) have featured a song by ��dith Piaf. "La Vie en Rose" was used in "Chlo��" and "Love Me If You Dare", and "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" plays in "Inception" - Marion won the Academy Award for Best Actress portraying Piaf in La Vie En Rose (2007).Sings under the pseudonym Simone in Maxim Nucci's band Yodelice. "Simone" is her grandmother's name. In 2010, Cotillard went on tour with the band in different cities in France and Belgium and sang few songs on the album "Cardioid". She also recorded the song "The Eyes of Mars" alongside Franz Ferdinand especially for Dior's "Lady Rouge" campaign.Her name is pronounced "mah-ree-ohn ko-tee-ar".Was in consideration for the role of Ryan in Gravity (2013) but Sandra Bullock was cast instead.Is a fan of Greta Garbo, Romy Schneider, Juliette Binoche, Toni Collette, Peter Sellers, Charles Chaplin and Sir Laurence Olivier.Was on the longlist for a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Inception (2010) in 2011 and for Midnight in Paris (2011) in 2012, but didn't make into the nominees.Starred in David Bowie's music video David Bowie: The Next Day (2013) alongside Gary Oldman, her co-star in The Dark Knight Rises (2012).She hates filming sex scenes, but stated that the first and only time that she liked filming sex scenes was in Rust and Bone (2012), with Matthias Schoenaerts, because it was a special moment for her character, who was having sex for the first time after she lost her legs.Is a fan of Game of Thrones (2011) and of the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992).Received several honors, career tributes and "Actress of the Year" awards in 2012 at Hollywood Film Festival, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Telluride Film Festival, AFI Fest, Sant Jordi Awards, Irish Film and Television Awards, Hawaii International Film Festival and Harper's Bazaar Awards.As a big fan of Tim Burton, Cotillard slept with the script of Big Fish (2003) under her pillow for a month to hopefully help her chances to work with him.Her favorite films are: The Great Dictator (1940), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Soy Cuba (1964), The Party (1968), The Elephant Man (1980), The King and the Mockingbird (1980) and Tandem (1987).Cotillard, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Daniel Br��hl, Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams and Lady Gaga are the only actors to receive a Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Critics' Choice Award nomination for the same performance and then fail to be Oscar-nominated for it: for their performances in Rust and Bone (2012), The Departed (2006), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Rush (2013), Nightcrawler (2014), Arrival (2016), and House of Gucci (2021), respectively.Is the fifth actress to win the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for portraying a female singer in a biography; the first being Luise Rainer as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld (1936), followed by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl (1968), Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005).She was originally set for a role in Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008).Grew up in Orl��ans and moved to Paris at the age of 16.Returned to work one month after giving birth to her son Marcel, to begin filming The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Most of her scenes were pushed back a month and director Christopher Nolan made room on the set for Cotillard's family. During an interview for Vogue in August 2012, Nolan marveled at Cotillard's ability to do her job so soon after giving birth, calling it "amazing to see" and describing her as "Superwoman".Gave birth to her son Marcel, with partner Guillaume Canet, in Paris (19 May 2011). Unlike many people assume, her son's name is not an homage to ��dith Piaf's lover, Marcel Cerdan. Cotillard later revealed that his name is actually an homage to a member of her family, Marcel Theillaud.She's an ecologist. Member and Spokesperson for Greenpeace since 2002. She is also one of several actors, singers and designers involved in "Dessins pour le Climat" ("Drawings for the Climate"), a book of drawings originated by Greenpeace and Gl��nat, available for sale beginning April 2005 (all proceeds to go to Greenpeace).Is one of 13 French actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination. The others in chronological order are: Claudette Colbert, Colette Marchand, Leslie Caron, Simone Signoret, Anouk Aim��e, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-Christine Barrault, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, B��r��nice Bejo, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.Ranked as having one of the most "Beautiful Famous Faces" by TC Candler's "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World" for 16 consecutive years. She was ranked #47 in 2017, #36 in 2016, #18 in 2015, #14 in 2014, #1 in 2013, #2 in 2012, #7 in 2011, #12 in 2010, #15 in 2009, #4 in 2008, #3 in 2007, #8 in 2006, #17 in 2005, #35 in 2004, #20 in 2003, and #31 in 2002.In 2011 and 2012 respectively, she appeared on the top of Le Figaro's list of the highest paid actors in France, it was the first time in nine years that a female has topped the list. She was also the highest paid foreign actress in Hollywood.If she had not been an actress, she would have liked to become a singer.Her onscreen debut was in 1993 at the age of 17, in the Canadian TV Series Highlander (1992). She had an uncredited cameo as the girl who gives birth in the episode 17 of Season 1: "Saving Grace". She then returned in the episode 21: "Nowhere to Run", as Lori Bellian. It was also her first English-speaking role.When she won the C��sar Award for her performance in La Vie En Rose (2007), Alain Delon presented the award and announced the winner as "La M?me Marion" (The Kid Marion), he also praised her on stage by saying: "Marion, I give you this C��sar. I think this C��sar is for a great, great actress, and I know what I'm talking about".Is a fan of Kate Winslet, Will Ferrell, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill. During an interview at The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) in 2012, Cotillard told that she would love to work with them in a comedy. In 2013, she had a cameo in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), a comedy film starring Will Ferrell. Cotillard also wrote an open-ed for Variety praising Kate Winslet's performance in Labor Day (2013).During the press conference of Macbeth (2015) at the Cannes Film Festival, her co-star Michael Fassbender stated that Cotillard is the best actress in the business. (May 23, 2015)Re-enacted the iconic shower scene of Psycho (1960) in a photoshoot for Vanity Fair in 2008. In the film, the scene was made by Janet Leigh, and Cotillard shares the same first name of Leigh's character in "Psycho", who was called Marion Crane.The mermaid-like dress she wore to the Academy Awards (where she won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role) was especially designed for her by Jean-Paul Gaultier. (2008)Starred in three movies about physical disability: Du bleu jusqu'en Am��rique (1999), Cavalcade (2005) and Rust and Bone (2012).Has dubbed in French all of her English-language roles since Big Fish (2003).Has worked with Guillaume Canet in five movies. Two as co-stars: Love Me If You Dare (2003) and The Last Flight (2009) and starred in two movies directed by him: Little White Lies (2010) and Blood Ties (2013). Later, Canet directed her in [Rock n'Roll (2017)] where they were also co-stars.She is the first non-Czech actress to win the Czech Lion for Best Actress for her performance in La Vie En Rose (2007).Has two younger brothers: Guillaume and Quentin, they are identical twins (born on 6 November 1977). Guillaume Cotillard, is a screenwriter and director and Quentin Cotillard works as a sculptor, living in San Francisco, California with his Irish-American wife Elaine O'Malley Cotillard, a former Dutch National Ballet dancer and fashion designer.Travelled to Philippines with France's President Fran?ois Hollande and actors M��lanie Laurent and Jeremy Irons to highlight the fight against climate change and convene a forum intended to encourage faster and more determined action on the global challenge of climate change. (February 26, 2015) |
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Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father\'s family i |
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Is one of six performers to win an Oscar playing a character that mostly spoke in a foreign language. The others are Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni, Benicio Del Toro and Christoph Waltz.Is the owner of two restaurants in France: Jaja and Glou.Is a "injection-phobic" and stated that she won't have Botox, plastic surgery or anything else that you put inside yourself to look younger.She plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and tambourine. She learned how to play the piano at home when she was a kid and learned to play the cello for her role as a soloist in the film You and Me (2006).Learned to speak her Polish dialogue (20 pages) in The Immigrant (2013) in only two months.Was considered for the role of Hanna Schmitz in The Reader (2008) after Nicole Kidman dropped out due to pregnancy. However the part eventually went to Kate Winslet. In 2009, Cotillard presented and gave the Academy Award for Best Actress to Kate Winslet for her performance in The Reader (2008).She and Adrien Brody are the only actors to win both a C��sar and an Oscar for the same performance. Cotillard won both awards in 2008 for La Vie En Rose (2007) and Brody won in 2003 for The Pianist (2002).Filmed The Dark Knight Rises (2012) in USA and Rust and Bone (2012) in France at the same time and few months after she gave birth to her son, Marcel. She was flying back and forth between USA and France to shoot both movies.First and so far the only artist to win a Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for a performance in the French language and is also the first leading lady to receive the Best Actress Oscar for a non-English speaking role since Sophia Loren in 1962 for Two Women (1960).Director James Gray who directed her in The Immigrant (2013), stated that Cotillard is the best actor he ever worked with. Gray wrote the character Ewa Cybulska especially for her.Started taking Danish lessons after having seen The Celebration (1998), planned on meeting Thomas Vinterberg during the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 and also started learning Spanish after having seen Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998) by Julio Medem.On November 15, 2013, she caged herself near Paris's Louvre museum to demand the freeing of 30 Greenpeace activists jailed in Russia over an Arctic protest. She entered the cage and held a banner proclaiming: "I am a climate defender." A few days later, the activists were released.Turned down a role in Bel Ami (2012). When Robert Pattinson met Cotillard in Cannes and told her he was doing a film of Guy de Maupassant's classic French novel, she expressed bemusement: "But why make it in English?".Is a fan of David Bowie, Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Otis Redding, Radiohead and Elvis Presley.Was six months pregnant with her son Marcel when she completed filming on Contagion (2011).Three of her films, Chlo�� (1996), Love Me If You Dare (2003) and Inception (2010) have featured a song by ��dith Piaf. "La Vie en Rose" was used in "Chlo��" and "Love Me If You Dare", and "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" plays in "Inception" - Marion won the Academy Award for Best Actress portraying Piaf in La Vie En Rose (2007).Sings under the pseudonym Simone in Maxim Nucci's band Yodelice. "Simone" is her grandmother's name. In 2010, Cotillard went on tour with the band in different cities in France and Belgium and sang few songs on the album "Cardioid". She also recorded the song "The Eyes of Mars" alongside Franz Ferdinand especially for Dior's "Lady Rouge" campaign.Her name is pronounced "mah-ree-ohn ko-tee-ar".Was in consideration for the role of Ryan in Gravity (2013) but Sandra Bullock was cast instead.Is a fan of Greta Garbo, Romy Schneider, Juliette Binoche, Toni Collette, Peter Sellers, Charles Chaplin and Sir Laurence Olivier.Was on the longlist for a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Inception (2010) in 2011 and for Midnight in Paris (2011) in 2012, but didn't make into the nominees.Starred in David Bowie's music video David Bowie: The Next Day (2013) alongside Gary Oldman, her co-star in The Dark Knight Rises (2012).She hates filming sex scenes, but stated that the first and only time that she liked filming sex scenes was in Rust and Bone (2012), with Matthias Schoenaerts, because it was a special moment for her character, who was having sex for the first time after she lost her legs.Is a fan of Game of Thrones (2011) and of the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992).Received several honors, career tributes and "Actress of the Year" awards in 2012 at Hollywood Film Festival, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Telluride Film Festival, AFI Fest, Sant Jordi Awards, Irish Film and Television Awards, Hawaii International Film Festival and Harper's Bazaar Awards.As a big fan of Tim Burton, Cotillard slept with the script of Big Fish (2003) under her pillow for a month to hopefully help her chances to work with him.Her favorite films are: The Great Dictator (1940), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Soy Cuba (1964), The Party (1968), The Elephant Man (1980), The King and the Mockingbird (1980) and Tandem (1987).Cotillard, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Daniel Br��hl, Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams and Lady Gaga are the only actors to receive a Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Critics' Choice Award nomination for the same performance and then fail to be Oscar-nominated for it: for their performances in Rust and Bone (2012), The Departed (2006), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Rush (2013), Nightcrawler (2014), Arrival (2016), and House of Gucci (2021), respectively.Is the fifth actress to win the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for portraying a female singer in a biography; the first being Luise Rainer as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld (1936), followed by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl (1968), Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005).She was originally set for a role in Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008).Grew up in Orl��ans and moved to Paris at the age of 16.Returned to work one month after giving birth to her son Marcel, to begin filming The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Most of her scenes were pushed back a month and director Christopher Nolan made room on the set for Cotillard's family. During an interview for Vogue in August 2012, Nolan marveled at Cotillard's ability to do her job so soon after giving birth, calling it "amazing to see" and describing her as "Superwoman".Gave birth to her son Marcel, with partner Guillaume Canet, in Paris (19 May 2011). Unlike many people assume, her son's name is not an homage to ��dith Piaf's lover, Marcel Cerdan. Cotillard later revealed that his name is actually an homage to a member of her family, Marcel Theillaud.She's an ecologist. Member and Spokesperson for Greenpeace since 2002. She is also one of several actors, singers and designers involved in "Dessins pour le Climat" ("Drawings for the Climate"), a book of drawings originated by Greenpeace and Gl��nat, available for sale beginning April 2005 (all proceeds to go to Greenpeace).Is one of 13 French actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination. The others in chronological order are: Claudette Colbert, Colette Marchand, Leslie Caron, Simone Signoret, Anouk Aim��e, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-Christine Barrault, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, B��r��nice Bejo, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.Ranked as having one of the most "Beautiful Famous Faces" by TC Candler's "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World" for 16 consecutive years. She was ranked #47 in 2017, #36 in 2016, #18 in 2015, #14 in 2014, #1 in 2013, #2 in 2012, #7 in 2011, #12 in 2010, #15 in 2009, #4 in 2008, #3 in 2007, #8 in 2006, #17 in 2005, #35 in 2004, #20 in 2003, and #31 in 2002.In 2011 and 2012 respectively, she appeared on the top of Le Figaro's list of the highest paid actors in France, it was the first time in nine years that a female has topped the list. She was also the highest paid foreign actress in Hollywood.If she had not been an actress, she would have liked to become a singer.Her onscreen debut was in 1993 at the age of 17, in the Canadian TV Series Highlander (1992). She had an uncredited cameo as the girl who gives birth in the episode 17 of Season 1: "Saving Grace". She then returned in the episode 21: "Nowhere to Run", as Lori Bellian. It was also her first English-speaking role.When she won the C��sar Award for her performance in La Vie En Rose (2007), Alain Delon presented the award and announced the winner as "La M?me Marion" (The Kid Marion), he also praised her on stage by saying: "Marion, I give you this C��sar. I think this C��sar is for a great, great actress, and I know what I'm talking about".Is a fan of Kate Winslet, Will Ferrell, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill. During an interview at The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) in 2012, Cotillard told that she would love to work with them in a comedy. In 2013, she had a cameo in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), a comedy film starring Will Ferrell. Cotillard also wrote an open-ed for Variety praising Kate Winslet's performance in Labor Day (2013).During the press conference of Macbeth (2015) at the Cannes Film Festival, her co-star Michael Fassbender stated that Cotillard is the best actress in the business. (May 23, 2015)Re-enacted the iconic shower scene of Psycho (1960) in a photoshoot for Vanity Fair in 2008. In the film, the scene was made by Janet Leigh, and Cotillard shares the same first name of Leigh's character in "Psycho", who was called Marion Crane.The mermaid-like dress she wore to the Academy Awards (where she won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role) was especially designed for her by Jean-Paul Gaultier. (2008)Starred in three movies about physical disability: Du bleu jusqu'en Am��rique (1999), Cavalcade (2005) and Rust and Bone (2012).Has dubbed in French all of her English-language roles since Big Fish (2003).Has worked with Guillaume Canet in five movies. Two as co-stars: Love Me If You Dare (2003) and The Last Flight (2009) and starred in two movies directed by him: Little White Lies (2010) and Blood Ties (2013). Later, Canet directed her in [Rock n'Roll (2017)] where they were also co-stars.She is the first non-Czech actress to win the Czech Lion for Best Actress for her performance in La Vie En Rose (2007).Has two younger brothers: Guillaume and Quentin, they are identical twins (born on 6 November 1977). Guillaume Cotillard, is a screenwriter and director and Quentin Cotillard works as a sculptor, living in San Francisco, California with his Irish-American wife Elaine O'Malley Cotillard, a former Dutch National Ballet dancer and fashion designer.Travelled to Philippines with France's President Fran?ois Hollande and actors M��lanie Laurent and Jeremy Irons to highlight the fight against climate change and convene a forum intended to encourage faster and more determined action on the global challenge of climate change. (February 26, 2015) |
| Trademarks: |
Dark hair, blue eyes and pale skin
Mole in the middle of forehead
Expressive doe-eyes, usually deceptive
Often plays femme fatales (Clarisse Entoven in A Private Affair (2002), Tina Lombardi in A Very Long Engagement (2004), Isabelle in The Black Box (2005), Mal in Inception (2010), Adriana in Midnight in Paris (2011), Talia al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (2015) and Marianne Beaus��jour in Allied (2016).)
Often stars in period pieces (War in the Highlands (1998), Lisa (2001), A Very Long Engagement (2004), La Vie En Rose (2007), Public Enemies (2009), Nine (2009), Midnight in Paris (2011), The Immigrant (2013), Macbeth (2015), From the Land of the Moon (2016), Allied (2016), Assassin's Creed (2016)) |
| Quotes: |
[on acting] I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings, and my first teacher was my mother [Niseema Theillaud] and then I worked with my father [Jean-Claude Cotillard], who helped me to find in myself all those emotions and how to play with the emotions.
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[on accepting the best actress Oscar for La Vie En Rose (2007) (aka "La Vie en Rose")] Thank you life, thank you love, and - it is true - there [are] some angels in this city [Los Angeles].
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Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don't believe all they tell me, that's for sure.
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[on her French accent] The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.
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My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else. |
| Salaries: |
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - $700,000
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Rust and Bone (2012) - |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
Celebrity spokesperson for Greenpeace France
(1990) Appeared in the music video "Petite Fille" by Les Wampas.
(1991) TV Ad Campaign against alcoholism: "Tu t'es vu quand t'as bu?", launched by the French Committee for Healt |
| Children: |
Marcel CanetLouise CanetMarcel Canet |
| Parents: |
Jean-Claude Cotillard
Niseema Theillaud |
| Relatives: |
Guillaume Cotillard (Sibling)
Quentin Cotillard (Sibling)
Laurent Cotillard (Cousin) |
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