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Marion Cotillard
During the Paris premiere of Public Enemies in July 2009
Born	September 30, 1975 (1975-09-30) (age 34) Paris, France
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1993–present
Domestic partner(s)	Guillaume Canet
Official website

Marion Cotillard (born September 30, 1975) is a French actress who has appeared in almost 40 film and television productions since 1993.

Born into an acting family, Cotillard started on the stage as a child and during her teens progressed from roles in television to cinema. By the end of the 1990s she had achieved notability as a French cinema actress in such films as Arnaud Desplechin's My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996) and Taxi (1998), and was seen by a wider audience in such films as Big Fish (2003), A Very Long Engagement (2004), for which she received a César Award for Best Supporting Actress, and A Good Year (2006).

Her portrayal of Édith Piaf in La Vie en rose (2007) brought international acclaim and multiple awards, including a BAFTA, a César Award, and a Golden Globe. With this film, she became the first actress to win an Academy Award for a French language performance.

Cotillard has expressed interest in environmental causes and has served as a spokesperson for Greenpeace. She lives with her companion, actor/director Guillaume Canet.

Family

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 descent¹ (his mother Léontine Cotillard still lives in Plémet, Brittany).² Her mother, Niseema Theillaud, is also an actress and drama teacher.³ She has two younger twin brothers, Quentin and Guillaume. Quentin Cotillard is a sculptor and painter living in San Francisco, California,⁴ with his 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".⁵ Guillaume Cotillard is a screenwriter and director.⁶

Cotillard began acting during her childhood, appearing on stage in one of her father's plays.⁷

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 Jeanne Moreau, Swiss novel-adaptation drama War In The Highlands,⁸ 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 novelist Virginie Despentes, in which she sang live on stage a couple of songs she had co-written.

In 2003, she had a supporting 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 the romantic lead. She appeared in two critically successful films in 2004: A Very Long Engagement, playing the murderous Tina Lombardi (garnering the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), and the drama mystery Innocence.

In 2005, Abel Ferrara offered her a small role alongside Forest Whitaker in his religious movie Mary while she also played in Burnt Out, Fabienne Godet's study of social oppression and stresses of corporate culture.⁹ In 2006, she appeared in Ridley Scott's A Good Year and in the Belgian comedy Dikkenek, and learned to play the cello for her role as a concertist in the satirical coming-of-age movie You and Me.³

She was chosen by director Olivier Dahan to portray the French singer Édith Piaf in the biopic La Môme (English title: La Vie En Rose) before he had even met her, saying that he noticed a similarity between Piaf's and Cotillard's eyes.¹⁰ 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.¹¹ 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."¹² 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.¹³

Cotillard 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 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 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),¹⁴ 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) to win both a Cesar and an Oscar for the same performance. Two days later, she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. After Simone Signoret in 1959, Marion Cotillard is the second French cinema actress to win this award and the third overall to receive an Academy Award (Juliette Binoche won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1997 for her critically acclaimed role in the picture The English Patient, but it was not for a leading role), although 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 praised by the President of France 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 Public Enemies. Her friend Pavlína Němcová - who played the journalist in La vie en Rose - was there to accept the award on her behalf.

On June 24, 2008, Cotillard was the first among 105 individuals invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Cotillard will next be seen in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Nine,¹⁵ alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren.

Personal life

Cotillard currently lives with French actor/director Guillaume Canet. They co-starred in the 2003 French film Love Me If You Dare. Many reports say the couple prefers to live a simple lifestyle, and they are often spotted in cafes and shopping together in Paris. Both stars do not discuss their relationship with the media, although photos of the couple being affectionate regularly surface in the European tabloids.¹⁶ 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.¹⁷ She is a fan of Radiohead and Canadian singer Hawksley Workman; she has appeared in two of the latter's music videos, most notably "No Reason to Cry Out your Eyes (On the Highway Tonight)".¹⁸ 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.¹⁹

In 2009, Cotillard was chosen as the face for Dior's "Lady Dior" advertising campaign and was featured in an online mini-movie about the fictional character created by John Galliano. Also, Cotillard recently appeared on the cover of the November issue of Vogue with Nine co-stars Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and Kate Hudson.

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 well²² 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.²³²⁴

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 anybody. Her attorney, Vincent Toledano, 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

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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Awards for Marion Cotillard v â€¢ d â€¢ e Academy Award for Best Actress Halle Berry (2001) Â· Nicole Kidman (2002) Â· Charlize Theron (2003) Â· Hilary Swank (2004) Â· Reese Witherspoon (2005) Â· Helen Mirren (2006) Â· Marion Cotillard (2007) Â· Kate Winslet (2008) Complete list Â· (1928–1940) Â· (1941–1960) Â· (1961–1980) Â· (1981–2000) Â· (2001-present) v â€¢ d â€¢ e Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nicole Kidman (2001) Â· Renée Zellweger (2002) Â· Diane Keaton (2003) Â· Annette Bening (2004) Â· Reese Witherspoon (2005) Â· Meryl Streep (2006) Â· Marion Cotillard (2007) Â· Sally Hawkins (2008) Complete List Â· (1950–1960) Â· (1961–1980) Â· (1981–2000) Â· (2001–present) v â€¢ d â€¢ e César Award for Best Actress 1976: Romy Schneider • 1977: Annie Girardot • 1978: Simone Signoret • 1979: Romy Schneider • 1980: Miou-Miou • 1981: Catherine Deneuve • 1982: Isabelle Adjani • 1983: Nathalie Baye • 1984: Isabelle Adjani • 1985: Sabine Azéma • 1986: Sandrine Bonnaire • 1987: Sabine Azéma • 1988: Anémone • 1989: Isabelle Adjani • 1990: Carole Bouquet • 1991: Anne Parillaud • 1992: Jeanne Moreau • 1993: Catherine Deneuve • 1994: Juliette Binoche • 1995: Isabelle Adjani • 1996: Isabelle Huppert • 1997: Fanny Ardant • 1998: Ariane Ascaride • 1999: Élodie Bouchez • 2000: Karin Viard • 2001: Dominique Blanc • 2002: Emmanuelle Devos • 2003: Isabelle Carré • 2004: Sylvie Testud • 2005: Yolande Moreau • 2006: Nathalie Baye • 2007: Marina Hands • 2008: Marion Cotillard • 2009: Yolande Moreau