french actress and musician

Marion Cotillard ( french : [ maʁjɔ̃ kɔtijaʁ ] ( ) ; born 30 September 1975 ) [ 2 ] is a french actress, singer, and environmentalist. Known for her divers roles across blockbusters and freelancer films, she is the recipient role of versatile accolades, including an Academy Award, a british Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a european Film Award, a Lumières Award, and two César Awards. She became a Knight of the regulate of Arts and Letters in France in 2010, and was promoted to Officer in 2016. She has served as a spokeswoman for Greenpeace since 2001. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Cotillard had her first English-language character in the television series Highlander ( 1993 ), and made her film debut in The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed ( 1994 ). Her breakthrough came in the successful french movie Taxi ( 1998 ), which earned her a César Award nomination. She made the transition into Hollywood in Tim Burton ‘s Big Fish ( 2003 ), and won her inaugural César Award for her operation in Jean-Pierre Jeunet ‘s A Very Long Engagement ( 2004 ).

For her depiction of french singer Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose ( 2007 ), Cotillard won her second César Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Lumières Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the beginning and ( as of 2021 ) only actor to win an Academy Award for a French-language performance, and besides the second actress and one of only six actors to have won this award for a extraneous terminology performance. Her performances in Nine ( 2009 ) and Rust and Bone ( 2012 ) earned Cotillard two Golden Globe nominations, and for Two Days, One Night ( 2014 ), she earned a second Academy Award nominating speech for Best Actress, which was besides her second nomination for a French-language film. Cotillard became one of entirely six actors to receive multiple Academy Award nominations for foreign terminology performances. Cotillard played Joan of Arc on stage in unlike countries between 2005 and 2015 in the cantata Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher. Her English-language films include Public Enemies ( 2009 ), Inception ( 2010 ), Contagion ( 2011 ), Midnight in Paris ( 2011 ), The Dark Knight Rises ( 2012 ), The Immigrant ( 2013 ), Macbeth ( 2015 ), and Allied ( 2016 ). She provided voice acting for the animated films The Little Prince ( 2015 ), April and the Extraordinary World ( 2015 ) and the french interpretation of Minions ( 2015 ). Her other celebrated french and belgian films include La Belle Verte ( 1996 ), Pretty Things ( 2001 ), Love Me If You Dare ( 2003 ), Dikkenek ( 2006 ), Little White Lies ( 2010 ) and It’s Only the End of the World ( 2016 ) .

early life [edit ]

Cotillard was born on 30 September 1975 in Paris and grew up around Orléans in an artistically incline family. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Her father, Jean-Claude Cotillard, is an actor, teacher, early mime, and field director, of Breton descent. [ 1 ] Cotillard ‘s mother, Monique Niseema Theillaud, is an actress and play teacher. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] She has two younger twin brothers, Quentin, and Guillaume. [ 1 ] [ 9 ] Cotillard ‘s father introduced her to cinema, and as a child she would mimic Louise Brooks and Greta Garbo in her own bedroom. [ 1 ] She began acting during her childhood, appearing in one of her beget ‘s plays. [ 10 ] At the old age of 15, Cotillard entered the Conservatoire d’art dramatique in Orléans. She graduated in 1994 and then moved to Paris to pursue an act career. [ 5 ] [ 11 ]

Acting career [edit ]

1993–2006 : french cinema and transition into Hollywood [edit ]

After small appearances and performances in dramaturgy, Cotillard had periodic, child roles in television series such as Highlander —where she had her first english-speaking function aged 17. [ 12 ] Her career as a film actress began in the mid-1990s, with minor roles in Philippe Harel ‘s The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed ( 1994 ), which was her feature film debut at the old age of 18, and in Arnaud Desplechin ‘s My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument, and Coline Serreau ‘s La Belle Verte ( both 1996 ). besides in 1996, Cotillard had her first leading function in the television film Chloé, [ 13 ] directed by Dennis Berry, with Cotillard starring as a adolescent runaway who is forced into prostitution, reverse Anna Karina. [ 14 ] In 1998, she appeared in Gérard Pirès ‘ action drollery Taxi, playing Lilly Bertineau, the girlfriend of pitch son Daniel, played by Samy Naceri. The film was a hit in France and Cotillard was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress. [ 15 ] She reprised the character in Taxi 2 ( 2000 ) and Taxi 3 ( 2003 ). [ 2 ] [ 16 ]
Cotillard ventured into science fabrication with Alexandre Aja ‘s post-apocalyptic romantic play, Furia, released in 1999, [ 2 ] a year in which she besides starred in the Swiss war drama War in the Highlands ( La Guerre dans le Haut Pays ), for which she won the Best actress Award at the Autrans Film Festival in 1999. [ 2 ] In 2001, she appeared in Pierre Grimblat ‘s movie Lisa, playing the deed function and younger version of Jeanne Moreau ‘s character, aboard Benoît Magimel and Sagamore Stévenin. [ 17 ] She besides starred in Gilles Paquet-Brenner ‘s film Pretty Things ( Les Jolies Choses ), adapted from the work of feminist writer Virginie Despentes, portraying twins of wholly opposite characters, Lucie and Marie ; for that function, she was again nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress. [ 18 ] In 2002, Cotillard starred in Guillaume Nicloux ‘s thriller A Private Affair ( Une Affaire Privée ), in which she portrayed the cryptic Clarisse. [ 2 ] Cotillard started the transition into Hollywood when she obtained a digest role in Tim Burton ‘s 2003 film Big Fish play Joséphine, the french wife of Billy Crudup ‘s character, William Bloom. [ 2 ] The output, her first English-language film, allowed her to work with well-established actors such as Helena Bonham Carter, Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor, Jessica Lange and Allison Lohman. [ 2 ] Big Fish was a critical and commercial success. [ 19 ] She besides starred in the 2003 french romanticist comedy film Love Me If You Dare ( Jeux d’enfants ), as Sophie Kowalsky, the daughter of polish immigrants. The film was directed by Yann Samuel and was a box office hit in France. In 2004, she won the Chopard Trophy of Female Revelation at the Cannes Film Festival, [ 20 ] and appeared in Jean-Pierre Jeunet ‘s A Very Long Engagement ( Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles ), as the revengeful Tina Lombardi, for which she won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress, [ 21 ] and the mystery thriller Innocence, as Mademoiselle Éva ; [ 2 ] both films were acclaimed by critics. In 2005, Cotillard starred in six films : Steve Suissa ‘s Cavalcade, Abel Ferrara ‘s Mary, [ 2 ] Richard Berry ‘s The Black Box ( La Boîte Noire ) ; Love Is in the Air ( Ma vie en l’air ), Burnt Out ( Sauf le respect que je vous dois ), and Stéphan Guérin-Tillié ‘s Edy. [ 22 ] In 2006, the actress took on significant roles in four feature of speech films, including Ridley Scott ‘s amatory dramedy A Good Year, in which she portrayed Fanny Chenal, a french café owner in a little Provençal town, opposite Russell Crowe as a Londoner who inherits a local property. [ 2 ] She played Nadine in the belgian drollery Dikkenek, aboard Mélanie Laurent, and the character of Nicole in Fair Play. For her role in the satirical coming-of-age film Toi et moi, she learned to play the cello. [ 8 ]

2007–2010 : La Vie en Rose and cosmopolitan recognition [edit ]

La Vie en Rose in February 2007 Cotillard at a press league forin February 2007 Cotillard was chosen by director Olivier Dahan to portray the french singer Édith Piaf in the biopic La Vie en Rose, before he had even met her, saying that he noticed a similarity between Piaf ‘s and Cotillard ‘s eyes. [ 23 ] The film was dubbed “ the most anticipated film of 2007 ” in France, where some critics said that Cotillard had reincarnated Édith Piaf to sing one last meter on stage. [ 24 ] At the Berlin International Film Festival, where the film premiered, Cotillard was given a 15-minute stand ovation. [ 25 ] Powerful Hollywood talent agent, Hylda Queally, signed Cotillard shortly after its premiere at the festival. [ 26 ] La Vie en Rose was a box office hit in France, gathering over 5 million admissions, [ 27 ] and made US $ 86 million cosmopolitan on a US $ 25 million budget. [ 28 ] Cotillard is the beginning actress to win a Golden Globe for a foreign lyric performance since 1972, when Liv Ullmann won for The Emigrants. She is besides the first gear person to win a ( Comedy or Musical ) Golden Globe for a alien language performance. [ 29 ] On 10 February 2008, Cotillard became the first french actress to be awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role since Stéphane Audran in 1973. [ 30 ] At the Academy Awards, she won Best Actress, becoming the beginning woman and second person ( after Adrien Brody, The Pianist ) to win both a César and an academy award for the same performance. [ 31 ] Cotillard is the second base french actress to win this prize [ 32 ] and the third overall to win an Academy Award after Simone Signoret in 1960 and Juliette Binoche in 1997. [ 33 ] She is the beginning Best Actress achiever for a non-English linguistic process operation since Sophia Loren in 1961. [ 34 ] biographyShe is besides the beginning and ( as of 2020 ) only achiever of an Academy Award for a French-language performance. [ 35 ] On 24 June 2008, Cotillard was one of 105 individuals invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ 36 ] In 2009, Cotillard starred aboard Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in the function of Billie Frechette in Michael Mann ‘s Public Enemies, which was released in the United States on 1 July 2009. Later that year, she starred in the film adaptation of the musical Nine, [ 9 ] directed by Rob Marshall, playing Luisa Contini, the wife of Guido, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. In the film, Cotillard performed two melodious numbers : “ My Husband Makes Movies ” [ 37 ] and “ Take It All “. [ 38 ] Time magazine ranked Cotillard ‘s operation in Nine as the fifth best female operation of 2009, behind Mo’Nique, Carey Mulligan, Saoirse Ronan, and Meryl Streep. [ 39 ] She was awarded the Desert Palm Achievement Actress Award at the 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival – her second trophy from the festival [ 40 ] – and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her performance in Nine. [ 41 ] Cotillard appeared on the overlay of the November 2009 issue of Vogue with her Nine co-stars, and on the July 2010 cover by herself. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] On 27 February 2010, Cotillard was the Honorary President of the 35th César Awards ceremony. [ 44 ] In the lapp year, she played Mal Cobb, a projection of Leonardo DiCaprio ‘s character, Dom Cobb ‘s asleep wife in Christopher Nolan ‘s film Inception, besides starring Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine and Elliot Page, which released on 16 July 2010. Nolan report Mal as “ the kernel of the femme fatale “, and DiCaprio praised Cotillard ‘s performance saying that “ she can be strong and vulnerable and aspirant and heartbreaking all in the same moment, which was perfect for all the contradictions of her character ”. [ 45 ] Cotillard and Leonardo DiCaprio ranked No. 8 on Forbes ‘s list of “Hollywood’s Top Earning On-Screen Couples” for Inception, which made US $ 825 million at the global box-office. [ 46 ] She besides starred in Guillaume Canet ‘s play Little White Lies ( Les petits mouchoirs ), playing the environmentalist Marie, aboard Jean Dujardin and François Cluzet .

2011–2015 : Continued success [edit ]

In 2011, Cotillard starred in Woody Allen ‘s Midnight in Paris aboard Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson and Kathy Bates, as Adriana, a fictionalize schoolmarm of Pablo Picasso with whom Wilson ‘s character, Gil, falls in beloved. The film grossed US $ 151 million worldwide on a US $ 17 million budget. [ 47 ] She appeared with Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh ‘s thriller film Contagion ( 2011 ). [ 48 ] She besides ranked on the top of Le Figaro ‘s 2011 list of the highest-paid french actors in 2010, the first meter in nine years that a female had topped the list, [ 49 ] and was tied with Kate Winslet as the highest-paid foreign actress in Hollywood. [ 50 ] In 2012, Cotillard was ranked one-ninth on the list of the highest-paid french actresses in 2011, [ 51 ] and starred in Christopher Nolan ‘s film The Dark Knight Rises, playing Miranda Tate, a board penis at Wayne Enterprises. The film reunited Cotillard with her Inception co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy, and Public Enemies collaborator Christian Bale. In Jacques Audiard ‘s drama Rust and Bone ( De rouille et d’os ), aboard Matthias Schoenaerts, Cotillard portrayed the killer whale trainer Stéphanie, who loses her leg after an accident at work and begins a strange relationship with Schoenaerts ‘ character. [ 52 ] The film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and received a ten-minute stand ovation at the end of its screen. [ 53 ] Cotillard garnered rave reviews for her operation, and Cate Blanchett wrote an op-ed for Variety praising her, describing the film as “ simply astonishing ” and stating that “ Marion has created a character of nobility and fairness, seamlessly melding herself into a universe we could not have known without her. Her performance is as unexpected and as tough-minded and raw as the film itself ”. [ 54 ] She received a one-fifth César Award nomination, a fourth Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, a one-third Golden Globe nominating speech ( her first nomination for Best Actress – Drama ), a second base Critics ‘ Choice Award nomination and a moment Lumières Award nomination. [ 55 ] Cotillard besides received several honours and career tributes in 2012, at the Telluride Film Festival, [ 56 ] Hollywood Film Festival, [ 57 ] AFI Fest, [ 58 ] Gotham Awards [ 59 ] and Harper ‘s Bazaar Awards. [ 60 ] In 2013, Cotillard was named Hasty Pudding Theatricals ‘ Woman of the year by Harvard student, [ 61 ] and was besides ranked the 2nd highest paid actress in France in 2012. [ 62 ] In May 2013, she appeared in the controversial music video “ The following Day ” by David Bowie, aboard Gary Oldman, her co-star in The Dark Knight Rises. [ 63 ] She had her inaugural leading function in an american english movie in James Gray ‘s The Immigrant, starring as the polish immigrant Ewa Cybulska, who wants to experience the american dream in 1920s New York, starring face-to-face Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner. James Gray wrote the movie specially for Cotillard after meeting her at a french restaurant with her boyfriend. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] Gray stated that Cotillard is the best actor he ‘s ever worked with. [ 66 ] Cotillard had to learn 20 pages of Polish negotiation for her role. [ 67 ] Her performance was widely acclaimed, [ 68 ] and she was awarded the New York Film Critics Circle Award, [ 69 ] [ 70 ] the National Society of Film Critics Award, [ 71 ] the Toronto Film Critics Association Award [ 72 ] and was nominated for a Spirit Award for Best Actress in 2015. [ 73 ] She starred in Guillaume Canet ‘s Blood Ties, with Clive Owen, Billy Crudup and her Rust and Bone co-star Matthias Schoenaerts, [ 74 ] and had a cameo in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, acting opposite Jim Carrey as a canadian anchor in the battle scene between equal news teams. [ 75 ]
In former 2013, Cotillard was a member of the jury of the 13th Marrakech Film Festival that was presided by Martin Scorsese. [ 76 ] In 2014, she starred in Dardenne brothers ‘ Two Days, One Night ( Deux jours, une nuit ), [ 77 ] portraying Sandra, a belgian factory worker who has precisely one weekend to convince her co-workers to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her occupation. The film premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and earned a 15-minute stand ovation, with her performance being named “ the best performance of the festival ”. [ 78 ] Cotillard received respective critics ‘ awards, a european Film Award, was nominated for a moment Academy Award and for a sixth César Award. [ 79 ] [ 80 ] Her performances in both The Immigrant and Two Days, One Night shared the fourthly descry of Time ‘s list of Best Movie Performances of 2014. [ 81 ] In November 2014, Cotillard participated on Comedy Central ‘s All-Star Non-Denominational Christmas Special in a pas de deux with Nathan Fielder singing Elvis Presley ‘s song “ Ca n’t Help Falling in Love “. [ 82 ] In 2015, Cotillard took on the role of Lady Macbeth in a film adaptation of William Shakespeare ‘s play Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel and starring Michael Fassbender in the title role. [ 83 ] The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, [ 84 ] and Cotillard ‘s performance was again the capable of praise from critics, particularly for her rendition of the “ Out, Damned Spot ” monologue. Variety’ south critic, Guy Lodge remarked : “ Her deathless sleepwalking scene, staged in minimalist fashion under a gauze of snowflakes in a bare chapel, is played with tender, abandon exhaustion ; it deserves to be viewed as near-definitive. ” [ 85 ] Cotillard was nominated for the british Independent Film Award for Best Actress for her performance. [ 86 ] In 2015, Cotillard starred in New York Philharmonic ‘s production of Arthur Honegger ‘s cantata “ Joan of Arc at the Stake “, [ 87 ] [ 88 ] and voiced the roles of The Rose in both the English and the french version of The Little Prince, directed by Mark Osborne, [ 89 ] Scarlet Overkill in the french translation of Minions, [ 90 ] and that of April in the French-Canadian-Belgian 3D enliven film April and the Extraordinary World ( Avril et le Monde Truqué ), directed by Franck Ekinci and Christian Demares. [ 91 ] [ 92 ]
In 2016, Cotillard played Gabrielle, a free-spirited woman in a convenience marriage, in Nicole Garcia ‘s From the Land of the Moon ( Mal de Pierres ), an adaptation of the bestselling italian novel Mal di Pietre by Milena Agus, which marked her return to French cinema after 2012 ‘s Rust and Bone, [ 93 ] and earned her a seventh César Award nomination. [ 94 ] She besides obtained the depart of Catherine, the sister-in-law of a 34-year-old cheery dramatist, in Xavier Dolan ‘s It’s Only the End of the World ( Juste la fin du Monde ). [ 95 ] Both films premiered in the main contest section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, to polarized reactions from critics. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] Cotillard starred opposite Brad Pitt in Allied ( 2016 ), a spy film set in World War II directed by Robert Zemeckis, in which she played Marianne Beausejour, a french Resistance fighter. [ 95 ] [ 98 ] [ 99 ] While critical reviews were mix, Stephanie Zacharek of Time magazine felt that “ Pitt and Cotillard give hardy, coded performances that feel naturalistic, not hypocrite : They understand clearly that their headman mission is to tap the tradition of melodrama, and they take it badly. Somehow, about incomprehensibly, it all works. Allied looks old but smells new, and the olfactory property is foolhardy. ” [ 100 ] The film grossed US $ 120 million worldwide. [ 101 ] Cotillard reteamed with Macbeth conductor Justin Kurzel and co-star Michael Fassbender in the film adaptation of the video game Assassin’s Creed ( besides 2016 ). [ 102 ] On 30 January 2017, Cotillard was honoured with a extra prize for her career at the 22nd Lumières Awards in France. [ 103 ] [ 104 ] In 2017, she besides starred in Guillaume Canet ‘s sarcasm comedy Rock’n Roll, and Arnaud Desplechin ‘s drama Ismael’s Ghosts ( Les Fantomes d’Ismaël ), aboard Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Louis Garrel. [ 105 ] The Hollywood Reporter, in its recapitulation for the erstwhile film, asserted that “ Cotillard offers up such a earnest performance that you ca n’t help but laugh ”. [ 106 ] In the 2018 play Angel Face ( Gueule d’ange ) by director Vanessa Fialho, she portrayed Marlene, a charwoman who abruptly chooses to abandon her daughter for a man she has just met during even another night of excess. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. [ 107 ] In 2019, Cotillard reprised the function of Marie in Little White Lies 2, sequel to 2010 ‘s Little White Lies directed by Guillaume Canet. [ 108 ] In 2020, Cotillard voiced Tutu, the fox in the comedy film Dolittle by Stephen Gaghan. [ 109 ] In 2021, she starred as Ann DelGreco alongside Adam Driver in the musical film Annette directed by Leos Carax. [ 110 ] She was cast to star in the Apple TV+ anthology series Extrapolations in late 2021. [ 111 ]

Music career [edit ]

Cotillard sings, [ 112 ] plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and tambourine. [ 113 ] She co-wrote and performed the song “ La Fille De Joie ” for her 2001 film Pretty Things ( Les Jolies Choses ), [ 114 ] in which she played a singer and besides performed the song “ La Conne ” for the movie. canadian singer Hawksley Workman, said in interviews about his album Between the Beautifuls that he worked and wrote songs with Cotillard while they both were in Los Angeles during the 2007–2008 movie awards season. [ 115 ] In 2008, she co-wrote and performed the song “ The strong Ones ” with Hawksley Workman for Olivier Dahan ‘s short movie for Cartier ‘s Love compass. [ 116 ] In 2010, Cotillard recorded the songs “ Five Thousand Nights ” and “ felicitous Crowd ” with the french Rock ring Yodelice for their album “ Cardioid ”. She besides went on tour with the band in different cities in France and Belgium, under the pseudonym “ Simone ”, which is her parental grandma ‘s name. [ 117 ] In the like class, she appeared in the video “ More Than Meets the Eyes ” from Yodelice. [ 118 ] Cotillard recorded the sung “ The Eyes of Mars ” with Franz Ferdinand particularly for Dior. In 2012, she wrote and performed the song “ Lily ‘s body ” for the fourth episode of the Lady Dior Web Documentary with the like title, [ 119 ] and in 2014, Cotillard wrote and performed the song “ Snapshot in LA ” aboard John Cameron Mitchell, Metronomy ‘s Joseph Mount and Villaine. She besides wrote and co-directed the video for the song, made for Lady Dior ‘s ad campaign “ Enter the Game – Dior Cruise 2015 ”. [ 120 ]

Singles [edit ]

other endeavours [edit ]

philanthropy [edit ]

In addition to her film solve, Cotillard is active in philanthropy, environmental activism, and has participated in campaigns for environmental security, in particular Greenpeace, for whom she has been a member and acted as a spokesperson since 2001. [ 122 ] [ 123 ] Cotillard is the patron of Maud Fontenoy Foundation, a non-governmental organization which is dedicated to teaching children about preserving the oceans. [ 124 ] She is besides the ambassador of Association Wayanga, a french association that supports autochthonal peoples for their rights and the preservation of their cultures and the Amazon Forest they inhabit. [ 125 ] She supports The Heart Fund, an international public charity that is a pioneer in technical invention to combat cardiovascular diseases in children, [ 126 ] and is besides a member of WWF [ 127 ] and the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, which supports environmental initiatives in France and afield to engage the ecological conversion of our societies. [ 128 ]
Cotillard in 2008 In 2005, she contributed to Dessins pour le climat ( “ Drawings for the Climate ” ), a book of drawings published by Greenpeace to raise funds for the group, [ 129 ] and in 2010, she travelled to Congo with Greenpeace to visit tropical rainforests threatened by logging companies, it was shown in the documentary The Congolese Rainforests: Living on Borrowed Time. [ 130 ] In 2009, Cotillard was one of many celebrities to record a binding version of the song Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil, in support of TckTckTck and climate justice. [ 131 ] In the same class, Cotillard designed her own doll for UNICEF France crusade “ Les Frimousses Font Leur Cinéma ”, that was sold to help vaccinate thousands of children in Darfur. [ 132 ] In 2011, she publicly supported Chief Raoni in his fight against the Belo Monte Dam in Brazil and signed his request. [ 133 ] In 2012, Cotillard was featured on Kate Winslet ‘s book “The Golden Hat: Talking Back To Autism”, [ 134 ] with fame self-portraits [ 135 ] to raise awareness and hold for autism launched by Winslet ‘s Golden Hat Foundation. [ 136 ] In 2013, she caged herself near Paris ‘s Louvre museum to demand the exempt of 30 Greenpeace activists jailed in Russia over an north-polar protest. She entered the cage and held a banner proclaiming “ I am a climate defender ”. [ 137 ]

In February 2014, she signed The Tiger Manifesto, a campaign calling for an end to casual products being manufactured through forest end. Launched by Greenpeace, the campaign is encouraging consumers to demand products are forest and tiger-friendly, peculiarly in Indonesia, where the Sumatran tiger is on brink of extinction. [ 138 ] [ 139 ] In May 2014, Greenpeace released the animated video The Amazon’s Silent Crisis, narrated by Cotillard. The video highlights the trouble oneself illegal logging that threatens the brazilian Amazon. [ 140 ] On 26 February 2015, she went to the Philippines along France ‘s President François Hollande and actress Mélanie Laurent, to participate on a forum and encourage faster and more determine action on the global challenge of climate change. [ 141 ] At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, director Mark Osborne revealed that Cotillard used to visit Children ‘s Hospitals and play The Rose ( from the koran The Little Prince ) for the kids, years before she voiced the quality in the 2015 movie The Little Prince, directed by Osborne. [ 142 ] [ 143 ] Cotillard was the ambassador of “1 Heart 1 Tree”, an art project that fights climate change through its Plant for the Planet reforestation plan. On 29 November 2015, The Eiffel Tower became a virtual afforest with trees and words encouraging environmental activism projected onto it every evening. Cotillard and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, inaugurated the light installation on the eve of the official opening of the COP21 conference. [ 144 ] She besides donated her shoes to be displayed among an initiation of over 10,000 shoes at the Place de la Republique in Paris. The initiation replaced a giant master of architecture for climate change which was forbidden by french authorities following the deadly attacks in the capital on 13 November, which cost 130 lives. It was a way of showing the decision of protesters in their crusade against climate change, and allowed them to still send a hard message on the evening of the U.N. climate league ( COP21 ). [ 145 ] On 10 December 2015, Cotillard voiced the french version of the curtly film Home, made by Conservation International ( CI ). The short movie debuted at the United Nations Momentum for Change Awards ceremony at the climate negotiations ( COP21 ) in Paris. It was the latest addition to CI ‘s award-winning “ nature Is Speaking ” unretentive film series. “ Home ” was produced to remind negotiators and world leaders at the climate talks of our common duty – how to care for the worldly concern that cares for us all. “ This Earth is our shared home, our only home. The time to safeguard its future – and with it our own future – is right now, “ said Cotillard. [ 146 ]

Dior advertise campaigns [edit ]

In 2008, Cotillard was chosen as the face of Dior ‘s bag “ Lady Dior “, [ 147 ] and was featured in an on-line short film directed by John Cameron Mitchell about the fictional fictional character created by John Galliano. [ 148 ] She starred in a series of short films that were situated in different cities to promote the “ dame Dior ” bag : Lady Noire Affair ( in Paris ) directed by Olivier Dahan, Lady Blue Shanghai, directed by David Lynch, Lady Rouge ( in New York City ), directed by Jonas Akerlund, and Lady Grey London, directed by John Cameron Mitchell and starring Ian McKellen and Russell Tovey. [ 148 ] This crusade has besides resulted in a musical collaboration with scots rock band Franz Ferdinand, where Cotillard has provided the vocals for a writing performed by the group, entitled “ The Eyes of Mars ”, for the “ lady Rouge ” campaign. [ 149 ] In 2012, Cotillard starred in the web-series Lady Dior Web Documentary and wrote and performed the song “ Lily ‘s torso ” for one episode, she besides designed her own bag for Dior, the “ 360° cup of tea ”. [ 150 ] Cotillard besides appeared on the cover of the first base issue of Dior Magazine in September 2012. [ 151 ] [ 152 ] [ 153 ] In 2014, she wrote and co-directed aboard Eliott Bliss, [ 154 ] a music video for her song “ Snapshot in LA ”, specially for Lady Dior ‘s campaign “ Enter The Game – Dior Cuise 2015 ”. [ 155 ] [ 156 ] Cotillard ‘s condense with Dior came to an end in 2017. [ 157 ]

Chanel No. 5 [edit ]

On 17 February 2020 Cotillard was announced as the new grimace of the Chanel No. 5 aroma. [ 158 ] In the television ad she sings “ Team ” ( in the first place performed by Lorde ). [ 159 ]

personal biography [edit ]

In the late 90s, Cotillard was in a relationship with french actor Julien Rassam. [ 160 ] She had a long-run kinship with french actor Stéphan Guérin-Tillié from 2000 to 2005. They co-starred in the short films Quelques jours de trop ( 2000 ) and Heureuse ( 2001 ), in the 2001 television receiver series Les redoutables, and in the 2005 feature films Cavalcade and Edy. [ 161 ] She dated french singer Sinclair from 2005 to 2007. [ 162 ] [ 163 ] Since October 2007, Cotillard has been in a relationship with french actor and film director Guillaume Canet. [ 164 ] [ 165 ] [ 166 ] They had been friends since 1997, [ 167 ] and co-star together for the beginning prison term years belated in the 2003 film Love Me If You Dare. Despite common misconception, the copulate are not married. Though since 2010 Cotillard has been spotted wearing a baseball diamond solitaire on her left hand – a present from Canet – they are not engaged either. [ 168 ] In 2014, Cotillard denied being married to Canet, [ 169 ] alternatively referring to him as “ my boyfriend ” in interviews. [ 170 ] [ 171 ] [ 172 ] [ 173 ] In 2011, they had their first child, a son, and in 2017, their second child, a daughter, was born. [ 174 ] [ 175 ] [ 176 ]

Public picture [edit ]

In the media [edit ]

Cotillard at the Dior Haute Couture Autumn-Winter collection in Paris in July 2009 As of 2021, Cotillard has appeared on more than 300 magazine covers around the world, [ 153 ] such as Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Variety, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Madame Figaro, Glamour, W, Porter, The Hollywood Reporter and Wall Street Journal Magazine. [ 153 ] [ 177 ] She was the first actress on a Vogue Paris September embrace in five years with her September 2010 cover, [ 178 ] and was named “ Woman of the Decade ” by Vogue Paris on their list of the “ 40 Women of The Decade ” in 2010. [ 179 ] In August 2012, Cotillard was featured in three major magazine covers : the American Vogue, Vogue Paris and Marie Claire UK. [ 180 ] She was besides featured on the covering of the first issue of Dior Magazine in September 2012. [ 181 ] Cotillard was named “ The Most beautiful grimace of 2013 ” by The Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World, [ 182 ] and ranked as one of the most “ Beautiful Famous Faces ” for 16 consecutive years. She was ranked No. 47 in 2017, [ 183 ] No. 36 in 2016, No. 18 in 2015, No. 14 in 2014, No. 1 in 2013, No. 2 in 2012, No. 7 in 2011, No. 12 in 2010, No. 15 in 2009, No. 4 in 2008, No. 3 in 2007, No. 8 in 2006, No. 17 in 2005, No. 35 in 2004, No. 20 in 2003, and No. 31 in 2002. [ 184 ] In 2012, Cotillard was named “ The World ‘s Sexiest Woman ” by the Hungarian magazine Periodika. [ 185 ] In 2013, she was ranked No. 13 on Empire Online ‘s list of the “ 100 Sexiest Movie Stars ”, [ 186 ] was No. 12 on french magazine Slate ‘s list of the “ 100 Most influential Women of France ”, [ 187 ] No. 68 on Total Film ‘s number of “ top 200 Performances of All Time ” for her performance in La Vie en Rose, [ 188 ] and named “ Best dress star topology of 2013 ” by the british Grazia magazine. [ 189 ] In 2014, she was described as “ the great silent film actress of our fourth dimension ” by british movie critic Robbie Collin from The Daily Telegraph, for her ability to show emotions only with her eyes and facial expressions, although she has never appeared in a dumb film, and was named “ The Most bankable french Actress of the twenty-first Century ”, her films accumulating more than 37 million ticket sales in France from 2001 to 2014. She ranked No. 18 on British GQ magazine ‘s list of “ The World ‘s 20 Coolest Women ” in 2014, [ 190 ] and was chosen as one of the ‘Best Film Femme Fatales ‘ by Harper’s Bazaar in 2014, for her performance as Mal in Inception. [ 191 ] In April 2016, Vox.com [ 192 ] analysed the actresses who have starred in the best review films ranked by average Metacritic rat, and Cotillard was No. 3 with an average score of 68. [ 193 ] Cotillard ranked second on Google ‘s “ Most search Actresses of 2016 ”. [ 194 ] In 2017, she was featured on the official post horse of the 42nd César Awards. [ 195 ] The ivory Jean Paul Gaultier nightgown Cotillard wear at the 80th Academy Awards on 24 February 2008 is regarded as one of the greatest academy award dresses of all fourth dimension. [ 196 ] [ 197 ] In mid-october 2021, a new bible Le traître et le néant ( english : The traitor and the nether ) by two journalists from Le Monde, Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme came out nation-wide in France. few days late, countless french national newspapers and medias have reported that french President Emmanuel Macron had declared “She pisses me off, Cotillard” ( french : Elle me fait chier, Cotillard ) [ 198 ] [ 199 ] [ 200 ] as claimed in this book. Jean-Marc Dumontet is cited as eye-witness. [ 201 ] This statement was in reception to Cotillard ‘s 2018 criticism of his policies specially environmental ones, when she stated in Le Parisien : “My faith in politics has been really undermined. He’s making promises to have a good image and behind [ our backs ] does not keeping them at all. I find that unbearable.” [ 202 ] [ 203 ] [ 204 ]

In democratic culture [edit ]

Cotillard was mentioned in Trivia, an episode of The Office that aired in January, 2012. Her 2001 film Les Jolies Choses, was the final answer to a trivium contest. improbable contestant Kevin Malone ( portrayed by Brian Baumgartner ) answers correctly and wins the contest. He credits Cotillard ‘s multiple nude scenes in the film for his flying recall. [ 205 ] Cotillard has had a double creature in the french television read Les Guignols de l’info since 2013. [ 206 ] In July 2014, a sample of Cotillard and Leonardo DiCaprio ‘s dialogue in the educate scene from Inception ( “ You ‘re waiting for a gearing … ” ), was featured on the song “ Far Away ” by nExow [ 207 ] at moment 03:28. [ 208 ] brazilian brand Chara Rial besides named a Mocassin shoes after her in 2014. [ 209 ] In April 2015, the french rap band Columbine released a song titled “ Marion ”. During the chorus, they sing “ Je t’aime, t’es belle comme Marion Cotillard ” ( “ I love you, you ‘re vitamin a pretty as Marion Cotillard ”, in French ). [ 210 ] In the television receiver Land situation comedy Hot in Cleveland ( 2014 ; season 5, episode 12 : I Just Met the Man I’m Going to Marry ), Wendie Malick ‘s character is presenting the Oscars nominees for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a mise-en-abîme scene and declares “Marion Cotill…, you know the French chick who gets nominated for everything.” [ 211 ] On April 11, 2015 ( Season 40, Episode 18 ), Cecily Strong debuted her now recurring Saturday Night Live imposture of Cotillard [ 212 ] as a respected and dedicated actress debating the place of women in the film industry [ 213 ] [ 214 ] [ 215 ] for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts “Actress Round Table” and “Hollywood Game Night” sketches ( other appearances as Cotillard include : Season 42, Episode 1, 8 and 20 adenine well as Season 43, Episode 3 [ 216 ] ) .

Filmography [edit ]

As of 2020, Cotillard ‘s films have grossed more than $ 3.6 billion at the worldwide box-office. [ 217 ] [ 218 ] [ 219 ] [ 220 ]

feature films [edit ]

short films [edit ]

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Snuff Movie
1996 Insalata Mista Juliette
1997 Affaire classée Nathalie
La sentence
1998 La surface de réparation Stella
1999 L’appel de la cave Rachel
2000 Quelques jours de trop
Le marquis
2001 Heureuse La virtuelle de 35 kg
Boomer Mme Boomer
2008 Lady Noire Affair Lady Noire
2010 Lady Rouge Lady Rouge
Lady Blue Shanghai Lady Blue
2011 Lady Grey London Lady Grey
L.A.dy Dior Margaux

television [edit ]

Year Title Role Notes
1993 Étude sur le Mouvement Fairy Segment: “Intériorité”
Highlander Lori Bellian Episodes: “Saving Grace” and “Nowhere to Run”
1994 Extrême Limite Sophie Colbert Episodes: “Père et fille” and “La pistonnée”
1996 Théo la tendresse Laura Episode: “La nouvelle de la semaine”
Chloé Chloé Television film
L’@mour est à réinventer Laurence Episode: “La mouette”
1998 Interdit de Vieillir Abigail Dougnac Television film
2001 Les Redoutables Gabby Episode: “Doggy dog”
Une femme piégée (aka Vertigo: A Woman in Danger) Florence Lacaze Television film
2005 Une américaine à Paris Herself Television film
2008 Génération duo Herself Television film
2013 Le Débarquement Nathalie the Bear 1 episode
2014 Comedy Central’s All-Star Non-Denominational Christmas Special Herself 1 episode
2015 Castings Herself Rap battle with Nekfeu and Orelsan (1 episode)
TBA Extrapolations Sylvie Bolo Upcoming series

Voice cultivate [edit ]

Cotillard has dubbed respective films and documentaries in France and in the U.S., and besides dubbed in French all of her roles in English-language films. [ 221 ] [ 222 ]

Music video [edit ]

field [edit ]

Awards and nominations [edit ]

Among other awards, Cotillard has received an Academy Award for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, two César Awards, a Lumières Award and a european Film Award. She has besides won a New York Film Critics Circle Award, a National Society of Film Critics Award, and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, the critics ‘ awards trifecta. Cotillard and Isabelle Adjani are the lone french actresses to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Adjani won in 1975 for The Story of Adele H. ( 1975 ), while Cotillard was awarded for her performances in The Immigrant ( 2013 ) and Two Days, One Night ( 2014 ) in 2014. In March 2010, Cotillard was made a Chevalier ( Knight ) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ( Order of the Arts and Letters ) by the french government for her “ contribution to the enrichment of french culture ”. [ 236 ] She was promoted to Officier ( Officer ) on 10 February 2016. [ 237 ] On 14 July 2016, Cotillard received France ‘s highest honor – she was named a Chevalier ( Knight ) of the Légion d’Honneur ( Legion of Honor ). She was among 650 names from the worlds of politics, culture, frolic and public life published in the politics ‘s official daybook for Bastille Day. [ 238 ] [ 239 ]

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