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Audrey Tautou - Biography |
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A dark-haired gamine who was
something of a throwback to actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Leslie
Caron, Audrey Tautou made an auspicious film debut as the sweetly innocent
beauty salon worker who engages in a flirtation with an older gentleman in
"Venus Beaute Institut" (1999), for which she earned the Cesar as most
promising female newcomer. Born in Beaumont, France and raised in rural
Montlucon, she began her performing career in a series of made for French
television movies and shorts that displayed her beauty and talent.
Selected as the winner of a competition sponsored by Canal+, she landed
her first film. Subsequent to that breakthrough role, Tautou appeared as a
teen runaway in "Voyous voyelles" (1999) and supported Vincent Perez in
two 2000 releases: "Epouse-moi" and the sex comedy "Le Libertin". She
displayed her charms and her flair for romantic comedy as the heroine of
the "Happenstance/Le Battement d'ailes du papillon" (2001).
Tautou caught her biggest break, though, when British actress Emily Watson
dropped out of a proposed teaming with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. After
auditioning for the role of a Monmartre waitress who embarks on fixing the
lives of others while neglecting her own, the charismatic and beautiful
actress landed the star-making role in the whimsical "Le Fableux destin
d'Amelie Poulain" (2001) which became a box-office juggernaut in France.
With a shortened title, "Amelie", the film, propelled by Tautou's sly and
charming turn, went on to enchant critics and audiences throughout the
world.
Tautou next graced screens in a trio of French films, first as a young
woman searching for love and spirituality in "Dieu est Grand, je suis
Toute Petite" aka "God is Great, I'm Not" (2002), a medical student
involved with a married doctor in À la Folie... pas du Tout" aka "He Loves
Me... He Loves Me Not" (2002) and as part of the international ensemble of
"Auberge espagnole, L'" aka "Pot Luck" (2002). Tautou's next major role
was for director Stephen Frears in "Dirty Pretty Things" (2003), a dark
and shadowy thriller in which she played an illegal Turkish immigrant
whose morally upright lover uncovers sinister activities at the hotel
where he works.
She rejoined “Amelie” director Jean-Pierre Jeunet for his next film, “A
Very Long Engagement” (2004), an ambitious, if not flawed World War I
drama. Tautou played a beautiful French woman with a bum leg from a
childhood bout with Polio whose fiancé (Gaspard Ulliel) is caught
inflicting a wound on himself in order to be sent home from the front.
Along with four other ne’er-do-wells, her fiancé is marched to the
hinterland between the French and German lines where the cowards are sure
to be killed. Despite receiving word of her fiancé’s death, she knows deep
down he’s still alive and hires a private detective (Ticky Holgado) to
find him after the war. Tautou was next set to appear in one of the most
controversial and anticipated movies to have come along in decades, “The
Da Vinci Code” (2006), directed by Ron Howard from Dan Brown’s
mega-blockbuster about a secret religious society that has spent the past
2000 years guarding a secret that could destroy the foundations of society
if it were revealed. |
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Audrey Tautou - Personal Quotes |
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"I wouldn't mind being in an
American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in
Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean."
"I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always
play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like
that. I love being by myself."
I'm a tomb when it comes to my personal life. I never give even a
mote of dust of that away."
"Hollywood doesn't need me. After 'Amélie,' I didn't get any offers
that interested me. I have very eclectic tastes, but it's important
for me that a movie be sensitive, clever and subtle."
"Everyone thinks I have an ethnic origin, and could be from North
Africa or parts of Asia, or Italy and Spain. But, as far as I know,
I'm 100-percent French."
"I believe in God, but I am not sure to trust Him so much."
"I figured that maybe it would be interesting to try a blockbuster,
but I never thought it'd happen to me." |
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Audrey Tautou - Filmography |
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Ensemble, c'est tout (2007)
.... Camille Fauque
... aka Hunting and Gathering (Europe: English title)
Hors de prix (2006) .... Irène
... aka Priceless (International: English title)
The Da Vinci Code (2006) .... Agent Sophie Neveu
Poupées russes, Les (2005) .... Martine
... aka The Russian Dolls (literal English title)
Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004) .... Mathilde
... aka A Very Long Engagement (International: English title) (USA)
Nowhere to Go But Up (2003) .... Val Chipzik
... aka Happy End (France) (USA)
... aka I Want to Be Famous (Singapore: English title)
Pas sur la bouche (2003) .... Huguette Verberie
... aka Not on the Lips (International: English title) (USA)
Marins perdus, Les (2003) .... Lalla
... aka Lost Seamen (International: English title)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002) .... Senay Gelik
Auberge espagnole, L' (2002) .... Martine
... aka Pot Luck (Canada: English title) (UK)
... aka Auberge espagnole, L' (USA)
... aka Casa de locos, Una (Spain)
... aka Euro Pudding (International: English title)
... aka The Spanish Apartment (USA)
À la folie... pas du tout (2002) .... Angélique
... aka He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (International: English
title)
Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite (2001) .... Michèle
... aka God Is Great, I'm Not (USA: festival title)
... aka God Is Great, and I'm Not (USA: video title)
Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) .... Amélie Poulain
... aka Amélie (France: working title) (International: English
title) (USA)
... aka Amelie (Australia) (UK)
... aka Amelie from Montmartre (International: English title)
... aka Amelie of Montmartre (International: English title: festival
title)
... aka Fabelhafte Welt der Amelie, Die (Germany)
... aka The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain (USA: literal English
title)
Battement d'ailes du papillon, Le (2000) .... Irène
... aka Happenstance (UK) (USA)
... aka Amelie 2 (Hong Kong: English title: DVD title)
... aka The Beating of the Butterfly's Wings (International: English
title)
Libertin, Le (2000) .... Julie d'Holbach
... aka The Libertine (International: English title)
Voyous voyelles (2000) .... Anne-Sophie
... aka Bad Girls (Australia: TV title)
... aka Pretty Devils (USA: new title)
... aka The Little Grifters (USA: cable TV title)
Épouse-moi (2000) .... Marie-Ange
... aka Marry Me (International: English title)
Triste à mourir (1999) .... Caro
Vénus beauté (institut) (1999) .... Marie
... aka Venus Beauty Institute (USA: literal English title)
... aka Venus Beauty Salon (UK)
Boiteux: Baby blues, Le (1999) (TV) .... Blandine Piancet
"Julie Lescaut" .... Tracy (1 episode, 1998)
- Bal masqué (1998) TV Episode .... Tracy
Casting: Archi-dégueulasse (1998) .... Comédienne 1
Chaos technique (1998) (TV) .... Lisa
Bébés boum (1998) (TV) .... Elsa
Vieille barrière, La (1998) .... La jeune fille du quartier
"Cordier, juge et flic, Les" .... Léa (1 episode, 1997)
- Le crime d'à côté (1997) TV Episode .... Léa
Vérité est un vilain défaut, La (1997) (TV) .... La standardiste
Coeur de cible (1996) (TV) |
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Audrey Tautou - Related Links |
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Wikipedia: Audrey Tautou
YouTube: Audrey Tautou
Audrey Tautou at Babemania.com
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