Juliette Binoche

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Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning French actress. Image:Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno.jpg

1 Biography
2 Awards
- 2.1 Won
- 2.2 Nominations
3 Filmography
4 External links

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Biography

Born in Paris to a movie-director father and an actress mother, at age 15 she was sent to study at a specialized arts high school, after which she attended the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris.

At age 18 she obtained a small role in the small independent film Liberty Belle. While trying to build her career over the next five years, she worked as a clerk at a Paris department store and as a painter's model.

She was 24 when she received her first big break with a role in Philip Kaufman's film The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Her performance brought much praise and the offer of leading roles including in Three Colors: Blue, part one of Krzysztof Kieślowski's acclaimed Three Colors trilogy, for which she won the 1993 Cesar Award for best actress. In addition, she has been nominated for the Cesar Award for Best Actress a further five times during her career.

In 1996 her role as Hana, a Canadian nurse tending to a wounded stranger during World War II, in the blockbuster film The English Patient, brought her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in an upset over expected winner Lauren Bacall whose seniority the Academy chose to overlook. Onstage, Binoche called to Bacall that Bacall was the one who really deserved the Award.

In 2000, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the film Chocolat, based on the novel by Joanne Harris (the award was won by Julia Roberts for her role in Erin Brockovich).

In addition to her numerous motion picture roles, Binoche has starred on Broadway. She is the highest paid film actress in the history of France.

Binoche has two children, Raphael (with Andre Halle) and Hanna (with French actor Benoit Magimel).

In April of 2006 she travelled to Iran at the invitation of the prominent Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami to discuss a possible movie project.

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Awards

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Won

1997 - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient (film)
1997 - Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actress - The English Patient
1997 - British Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient
1997 - European Movie Award - Best Actress - The English Patient
1996 - National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient
1994 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue
1993 - Venice Film Festival - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue
1993 - Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale Camera
1992 - European Movie Award - Best Actress - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf

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Nominations

2001 - Academy Award for Best Actress - Chocolat
2001 - British Academy Award - Best Actress - Chocolat
2001 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Widow Of Saint-Pierre
2001 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Chocolat
2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Actress - Chocolat
2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Cast - Chocolat
1997 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient
1997 - Golden Globe Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient
1996 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Le Hussard sur le toit - (The Horseman on the Roof)
1994 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue
1993 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Damage