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Marion Cotillard Profile |
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Birth Date: September 30, 1975
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Birth Place: Paris, France
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Birth Name: Marion Cotillard
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
Marion Cotillard is a French
actress who has appeared in over fifty films in France.
Cotillard won her second César Award, the BAFTA, the Golden
Globe, Czech Lion, and the Academy Award for Best Actress
for her role as French chanteuse Édith Piaf in La Vie En
Rose.
Cotillard began acting during her childhood, appearing on
stage in one of her father's plays.
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 (his mother Léontine Cotillard
still lives in Plémet, Brittany). Her her mother Niseema
Theillaud, is also an actress and drama teacher / She has
two younger twin brothers, Quentin and Guillaume. Quentin
Cotillard is a sculptor and painter living in San Francisco,
California 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". Guillaume Cotillard is a writer.
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. 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 "Desseins
pour le climat" (Drawings for Climate), an album project
that was released in 2005 and raised money for the
environmental activist group. 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)". 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
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If she had not been an actress, she would have liked to
become a singer.
She's an ecologist.
Had to learn how to sing in one month to play Marie in
Jolies choses, Les (2001).
Is good friends with Élodie Navarre.
Spokesperson for Greenpeace. Is also one of several actors,
singers, and designers involved in "Dessins pour le climat,"
an album project originated by Greenpeace and Glénat,
available for sale beginning April 2005 (all proceeds to go
to Greenpeace).
French citizen.
Co-wrote and performed song "La Fille De Joie" for her film
"Les Jolies Choses". Also performed song "La Conne" for this
film.
Has two younger brothers: Guillaume and Quentin, they are
identical twins (born on 6 November 1977).
Born to Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor and teacher, and his
wife Niseema Theillaud, also actress and drama teacher.
Is a member of Greenpeace.
Moved to Paris at the age of 16.
Cousin of Laurent Cotillard.
Grew up in Orléans.
Being a huge fan of Canadian singer Hawksley Workman, she
starred in two of his clips.
Companion of her Jeux d'enfants (2003) co-star Guillaume
Canet since 2007.
Having won the Best Actress Oscar for Môme, La (2007) on 24
February 2008, she has become the third French actress to do
so. The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One
Night (1934) and Simone Signoret for Room at the Top (1959).
Her brother Quentin works as a sculptor, living in San
Francisco, California with his Irish-American wife Elaine
O'Mailly Cotillard, a former Dutch National Ballet dancer
and fashion designer.
Her brother Guillaume is a writer.
The first leading lady to receive the best actress Oscar for
a non-English speaking role since Sophia Loren in 1962 for
Ciociara, La (1960).
Is the third actress to win the Best Actress Oscar for
portraying a female singer in a biography; the first being
Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
and the second Reese Witherspoon as June Carter in Walk the
Line (2005).
Is one of five performers to win an Oscar playing a
character that mostly spoke in a foreign language. The other
are Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni and
Benicio Del Toro.
Daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard and Niseema Theillaud. |
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since May 12, 2008