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Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard, 2006
Born	September 30, 1975 (1975-09-30) (age 33) Paris, France
Occupation	actress, singer
Years active	1993 - present
Official website
Awards won Academy Awards Best Actress 2007 La Vie En Rose BAFTA Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role 2007 La Vie En Rose César Awards Best Actress 2007 La Vie En Rose Best Supporting Actress 2004 A Very Long Engagement Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 2007 La Vie En Rose Other awards BSFC Award for Best Actress 2007 La Vie En Rose KCFCC Award for Best Actress 2007 La Vie En Rose LAFCA Award for Best Actress 2007 La Vie En Rose

Marion Cotillard (born September 30, 1975) is a French actress. She made history by becoming the first actor to win an Academy Award for the French cinema, as Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose. Cotillard has also won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, two Cesar Awards and Czech Lion.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 3 Controversy 4 Filmography 5 Awards and nominations 6 References 7 External links

Biography

Cotillard began acting during her childhood, appearing on stage in one of her father's plays.^[1]

Cotillard was born in Paris and grew up around Orléans, Loiret in an artistically-inclined, "bustling, creative household". Her father, Jean-Claude Cotillard, is an actor, teacher, former mime, and 2006 Molière Award-winning director of Breton descent^[2] (his mother Léontine Cotillard still lives in Plémet, Brittany).^[3] Her mother Niseema Theillaud, is also an actress and drama teacher.^[4] She has two younger twin brothers, Quentin and Guillaume. Quentin Cotillard is a sculptor and painter living in San Francisco, California^[5] with his Irish-American wife, Elaine O'Malley Cotillard, "a former Dutch National Ballet dancer who grew up in Marin County and is now a San Francisco fashion designer".^[6] Guillaume Cotillard is a writer.^[7]

Cotillard is currently in a relationship with French actor/director Guillaume Canet. They co-starred in the 2003 French film Love Me If You Dare. The couple's relationship is widely reported in the French press, and they have been dubbed the French version of "Brangelina." Despite this, many reports say the couple prefers to live a simple lifestyle, and they are often spotting in cafes and shopping together in Paris.^[8] 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.^[9] 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)".^[10] 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.^[11]

Career

After a few roles on television, her career as a film actress began in the mid-1990s with small but noticeable roles in such films as Pierre Grimblat's Lisa alongside the iconic Jeanne Moreau, Swiss novel-adaptation drama War In The Highlands,^[12] Coline Serreau's comedy La Belle Verte, or Alexandre Aja's anticipation fantasy Furia among other participations in established directors' productions. She rose to prominence in the late 1990s when she was cast in the Luc Besson production Taxi (1998) as Lili Bertineau, a minor 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/Pretty Things adapted from the work of subversive feminist novelist Virginie Despentes in which she sang live on stage a couple of songs she had co-written.

In 2003, she had a small role in Tim Burton's film, Big Fish, which introduced her to English-speaking audiences. She also played Sophie Kowalski in Yann Samuell's Jeux d'enfants (English title: Love Me If You Dare), in which she played a complex yet appealing modern romantic lead. 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.

2005 saw Abel Ferrara offering her a small role alongside Forest Whitaker (who would present her the Oscar two years later) in his religious movie Mary while she also played in Burnt Out, Fabienne Godet's study of social oppression and stresses of corporate culture.^[13] In 2006, she appeared in Ridley Scott's A Good Year, Belgian comedy Dikkenek and learnt to play the cello for her role as a concertist in the satirical coming of age movie You and Me.^[4]

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 Édith Piaf he noticed a similarity with Marion's own.^[14]. Producer Alain Goldman accepted and defended the choice even though distributors TFM reduced the money they gave to finance the film thinking Cotillard wasn't "bankable" enough an actress.^[15] 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."^[16] It was dubbed "the most awaited film of 2007" in France, where some critics said that she had reincarnated Édith Piaf to sing one last time on stage.^[17]

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 in 1969 combined the Best British and Best Foreign actress award into one Best Actress category. 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. She is also the very first person to win a (Comedy or Musical) Golden Globe for a foreign language performance. As La Vie En Rose was also a Czech production (as she mentioned in her César acceptance speech),^[18] 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, becoming the first woman and second person (after Adrien Brody, The Pianist (2002 film) to win both a Cesar and an Oscar for the same performance. Two days later, to be remembered as a historic one in French cinema, she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. After Simone Signoret in 1959, Marion Cotillard is the second French actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress, though French expatriate Claudette Colbert was given an Oscar in 1934. 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. In her Oscar acceptance speech, Cotillard proclaimed "thank you life, thank you love" and, speaking of Los Angeles, said "it is true, there is some angels in this city!"

The day following the ceremony, Cotillard was congratulated and priased by the President of the French Republic Nicolas Sarkozy in a statement saying, "I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to Marion Cotillard, who has just received the Oscar for Best Actress for her masterful interpretation of Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose”, directed by Olivier Dahan. Half a century after Simone Signoret, a French artist has received the Best Actress award at the Oscars. It was a good omen that Catherine Allegret, Simone Signoret’s daughter, herself had a role in “La Vie en Rose”. Marion Cotillard embodies an Edith Piaf who is unsettling in her realism, emotion and passion. Her interpretation brings to life the story of a woman who gave French song its acclaim and authenticity; a singer, too, who closely united France and America."

On March 1, 2008, Cotillard won the Czech film industry's highest acting honor, the Czech Lion Award for Best Actress. She could not attend the ceremony in Prague due to the filming of her next US film, Public Enemies. Her friend Pavlina Nemcova - who played the journalist in La vie en Rose - was there to accept the award on her behalf. Cotillard has also been cast to play Luisa Contini in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Nine^[19], alongside fellow Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench and Italian cinema legend Sophia Loren.

On June 24, 2008, Marion Cotillard was the first among 105 individuals invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This makes her eligible to vote for all Academy Awards following her acceptance.

Controversy

On February 29, 2008, the website of French magazine Marianne published quotes of an excerpt of a television interview dating back to February 16, 2007,^[20] in which she said:^[21]

Cotillard: I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

Paris Première: Are you paranoid?

Cotillard: No, no, it's not a paranoid thing — because I think that we are told lies about lots of things.

Paris Première: Yeah?

Cotillard: Coluche, 9/11, all that. We can watch on the Internet all the films that, well…about 9/11, about — about the conspiracy theory. It's fascinating. It's even addictive after a while.

Paris Première: Let's take 9/11, for example. What did disturb [sic] you more concretely?

Cotillard: You are shown that other towers of the same kind that were hit by planes, that burnt — there is a tower, I think that it's in Spain, that burnt for twenty-four hours.

Paris Première: Before collapsing…?

Cotillard: It never collapsed! None of these towers collapsed. And, over there, in a few minutes, the thing collapses. And, then, after that, we'll talk lengthily about it because there was — because the thing was filled with gold, the towers from 9/11. And then it was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, in '73, and to update all that, to modernize all the technology and everything, it was much more expensive to have work done, etc., than destroying them. Did man walk on the moon? I've seen quite a lot of documentaries about it, and I ask myself. But, in any case, I don’t believe everything that I'm told, that's for sure.

She made this statement during a long conversation with host Xavier de Moulins in which La Vie En Rose Oscar-winning make-up artist Didier Lavergne—a close friend of the late Coluche, the controversy over whose death was mentioned just before in the discussion—intervened as well^[22] and it was edited into an approximately one hour show. At this particular moment, they were visiting the Catacombs, a famous underground ossuary, during a nocturnal walk in various places of Paris for Paris Première, a Paris by Night cultural television program.^[23][24]

A few days later Cotillard released the statement: "My statements on that program have been taken completely out context and been crafted into a story that has no merit." She stressed her deep apologies regarding how her statements or their misunderstanding could have hurt any people. Her attorney, Vincent Tolesano, said that "Marion never intended to contest nor question the attacks of September 11, 2001; and regrets the way old remarks have been taken out of context."^[25]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1994	L'Histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse	Mathilde	Alternative title: The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
1996	Comment je me suis disputé (ma vie sexuelle)	Student	Alternative title: My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
	La Belle Verte	Student
1998	Taxi	Lili Bertineau
1999	La Guerre dans le Haut Pays	Julie Bonzon	Alternative title: War in the Highlands
	Furia	Élia
	Du Bleu jusqu'en Amérique	Solange	Alternative title: Blue Away to America
2000	Taxi 2	Lili Bertineau
2001	Lisa	Young Lisa
	Les Jolies choses	Marie/Lucie	Alternative title: Pretty Things
2002	Une affaire privée	Clarisse Entoven	Alternative title: A Private Affair
2003	Taxi 3	Lili Bertineau
	Love Me If You Dare	Sophie Kowalsky	Alternative title: Jeux d'enfants
	Big Fish	Joséphine Bloom
2004	Innocence	Mademoiselle Éva
	A Very Long Engagement	Tina Lombardi	Alternative title: Un long dimanche de fiançailles
2005	Cavalcade	Alizée
	Edy	Céline/La chanteuse du rêve
	Ma vie en l'air	Alice	Alternative title: Love is in the air
	Mary	Gretchen Mol
	Sauf le respect que je vous dois	Lisa	Alternative title: Burnt Out
	La Boîte noire	Isabelle Kruger/Alice	Alternative title: The Black Box
2006	Toi et Moi	Léna	Alternative title: You And Me
	Dikkenek	Nadine
	Fair Play	Nicole
	A Good Year	Fanny Chenal
2007	La môme	Édith Piaf	Alternative titles: La Vie en rose, Édith Piaf, Life in Pink, The Little Girl, The Passionate Life of Édith Piaf
2009	Public Enemies	Billie Frechette	Post-Production
	Nine	Luisa Contini	Pre-Production

Awards and nominations

Year	Group	Award	Film	Result
2005	César Awards	Best Supporting Actress	A Very Long Engagement	Won
2008	César Awards	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Won
	Academy Awards	Best Actress in a Leading Role	La Vie en Rose	Won
	BAFTA	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Won
	Boston Society of Film Critics	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Won
	Czech Lion	Best Actress in a Leading Role	La Vie en Rose	Won
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy	La Vie en Rose	Won
	Kansas City Film Critics	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Awards	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Won

Year	Group	Award	Film	Result
1999	César Awards	Most Promising Actress	Taxi	Nominated
2002	César Awards	Most Promising Actress	Les Jolies Choses	Nominated
2007	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Best Actress in a Leading Role	La Vie en Rose	Nominated
	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Nominated
	Dallas Fort-Worth Critics	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Nominated (2nd place)
	Detroit Society of Film Critics	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Nominated
	Detroit Society of Film Critics	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Nominated
	European Film Awards	European Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Nominated
	National Board of Review	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Nominated (Runner-up)
	National Society of Film Critics	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Nominated (First Runner-up)
	Online Film Critics Society	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Nominated
	St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Nominated
2008	Richard Attenborough Award	Best Actress	La Vie en Rose	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role	La Vie en Rose	Nominated

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African American Film Critics Association Won Best Actress for La Vie En Rose Boston Society of Film Critics 2007 Won Best Actress for La Vie En Rose Cabourg Romantic Film Festival 2007 Won Best Actress for La Vie en Rose 2000 Won Best New Actress for Taxi 2 Berlin International Film Festival 2007 Nominated for the Silver Berlin Bear Award for La Vie En Rose Cannes Film Festival 2004 Won Chopard Trophy Female Revelation Conservatoire d'Orléans 1994 Won Premier Prix Etoiles d'Or du Cinéma 2008 Won Best Actress for La Vie En Rose European Film Awards 2007 Nominated for Best Actress for La Vie En Rose Golden Star Award 2008 Won Best Actress for La Vie En Rose' Hollywood Film Festival 2007 Won Hollywood Film Award Actress of the Year InterNational Online Cinema Awards 2008 Won Best Actress for La Vie En Rose Kansas City Film Critics Circle 2007 Won Best Actress for La Vie En Rose London Film Critics Circle Awards 2008 Won Actress of the Year for La Vie En Rose Los Angeles Film Critics 2007 Won Best Actress for La Vie en Rose National Society of Film Critics (First Runner Up, Best Actress) Newport Beach Film Festival 2004 Won Jury Award Feature Film - Best Actress - Drama for Jeux d'enfants 2004 Won Best Actress for Love Me If You Dare NRJ Ciné Awards 2007 Won Best Look (Meilleur look) for La Vie en Rose 2007 Won French Actress of the Year (La Frenchie de l'année) for La Vie en Rose Palm Springs International Film Festival 2007 Won Breakthrough Performance Award for La Vie en Rose Prix Lumière 2008 Won Best Actress for La Vie En Rose Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2008 Inaugural Virtuoso Award Satellite Awards 2007 Won Best Actress - Drama for La Vie En Rose Seattle International Film Festival 2007 Won Golden Space Needle Award Best Actress for La Vie en Rose Vancouver Film Critics Circle 2008 Won Best Actress for La Vie En Rose Verona Love Screens Film Festival 2001 Won Best Actress for Lisa

References

External links

• Marion Cotillard at the Internet Movie Database
• Official family website

Awards
Academy Award
Preceded by Helen Mirren for The Queen	Best Actress 2007 for La Vie En Rose	Succeeded by TBD
Golden Globe Award
Preceded by Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada	Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 2007 for La Vie En Rose	Succeeded by TBD
BAFTA Award
Preceded by Helen Mirren for The Queen	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 Cécile de France for The Russian Dolls
Preceded by Marina Hands for Lady Chatterley	Best Actress 2007 for La Vie En Rose	Succeeded by TBD

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Persondata
NAME	Cotillard, Marion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress
DATE OF BIRTH	September 30, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris, France
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH