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Juliette Binoche - Biography |
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Juliette Binoche (born March 9,
1964) is a French Academy Award-winning actress.
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 Kieœlowski'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 said "I don't have a speech prepared. I thought
Lauren would get it"
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 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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Juliette Binoche - Personal Quotes |
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"Movies are open doors, and at
every door, I change character and life...I live for the present
always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page
to turn."
"When I returned to France after winning the Oscar, I was treated
like royalty, or like a football hero!"
"Giving birth is like a vase of beautiful flowers. Only you're just
the vase, and only for a very short moment. The flowers are
beautiful, but they belong to themselves, not to the vase."
"I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and
Simone de Beauvoir are great French women".
"I knew I had become a star when I shook hands with Simone Signoret
at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. She died four months later".
"Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer
to reveal another."
"I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a
message or an idea. Films that dare to ask."
"If a star is someone who gives light, then I can be a star. But if
a star is someone who goes after money and magazine covers then it's
sick and I don't want it!"
"French women bloom at 40! I can't wait!"
"My earliest memory is loneliness. That's a hard thing to live with"
I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a
relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said
no. I just didn't give an answer!
"Going to South Africa (Country of My Skull (2004)) has changed me
utterly. I have seen and heard about acts of cruelty and hatred
which are hard to comprehend. But I've also seen peace and
tranquility like nowhere else on earth".
"My real excitement comes when a movie transforms me. When you love
the movie you've played in, you can make that bridge back to your
own life." |
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Juliette Binoche - Filmography |
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Paris (2008)
Heure d'été, L' (2008) .... Juliette
... aka Summer Time (International: English title)
Dan in Real Life (2007) .... Marie
Désengagement (2007)
... aka Disengagement (International: English title)
... aka Disimpegno (Italy)
... aka Hitnatkoot (Israel: Hebrew title)
Voyage du ballon rouge, Le (2007) .... Suzanne
... aka Flight of the Red Balloon (International: English title)
Breaking and Entering (2006) .... Amira
Quelques jours en septembre (2006) .... Irène Montano
... aka A Few Days in September (International: English title)
... aka Alcuni giorni in settembre (Italy)
... aka Alguns Dias em Setembro (Portugal)
Paris, je t'aime (2006) .... Suzanne (segment "Place des Victoires")
... aka Paris, I Love You (Hong Kong: English title)
Mary (2005/I) .... Marie Palesi/Mary Magdalene
Bee Season (2005) .... Miriam
Caché (2005) .... Anne Laurent
... aka Hidden (International: English title) (UK)
... aka Versteckt (Austria) (Germany)
... aka Niente da nascondere (Italy)
Country of My Skull (2004) .... Anna Malan
... aka In My Country (USA)
Décalage horaire (2002) .... Rose
... aka Jet Lag (Canada: English title) (International: English
title)
Chocolat (2000) .... Vianne Rocher
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (2000) .... Anne
Laurent
... aka Code - Unbekannt (Germany)
... aka Code Unknown (Canada: English title)
... aka Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
(International: English title)
... aka Code inconnu (France: short title)
Veuve de Saint-Pierre, La (2000) .... Pauline (Madame La)
... aka The Widow of Saint-Pierre (International: English title)
... aka The Widow of St. Pierre (Canada: English title)
Enfants du siècle, Les (1999) .... George Sand/Baroness Aurore
Dudevant
... aka The Children of the Century (Canada: English title) (Europe:
English title) (USA)
Alice et Martin (1998) .... Alice
... aka Alice and Martin (USA: literal English title)
... aka Alice y Martin (Spain)
The English Patient (1996) .... Hana
Un divan à New York (1996) .... Beatrice Saulnier
... aka A Couch in New York
... aka Couch in New York, Eine (Germany)
Hussard sur le toit, Le (1995) .... Pauline de Théus
... aka The Horseman on the Roof (USA)
Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) .... Julie Vignon (de Courcy)
... aka Three Colours: Red (Canada: English title) (UK)
... aka Red (USA: short title)
... aka Three Colors: Red (USA)
... aka Trzy kolory: Czerwony (Poland)
Trzy kolory: Bialy (1994) .... Julie Vignon (de Courcy)
... aka Three Colours: White (Canada: English title) (UK)
... aka Three Colors: White (USA)
... aka Trois couleurs: Blanc (France)
... aka Trzy kolory: Biały (Poland)
... aka White
Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) .... Julie Vignon (de Courcy)
... aka Three Colors: Blue (Canada: English title) (USA)
... aka Three Colours: Blue (Canada: English title) (UK)
... aka Bleu (France: short title)
... aka Blue
... aka Trzy kolory: Niebieski (Poland)
Damage (1992) .... Anna Barton
... aka Fatale (France)
... aka Verhängnis (Germany)
Wuthering Heights (1992) .... Cathy Linton/Catherine Earnshaw
... aka Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (USA: complete title)
Amants du Pont-Neuf, Les (1991) .... Michèle Stalens
... aka Lovers on the Ninth Bridge (Australia: video title)
... aka Lovers on the Pont Neuf (Australia: cable TV title)
... aka The Lovers on the Bridge (USA)
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991) (TV) .... Mara
... aka The Art of Seduction (UK: DVD box title)
... aka Women & Men 2
Un tour de manège (1989) .... Elsa
... aka Roundabout (International: English title: alternative title)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) .... Tereza
Mauvais sang (1986) .... Anna
... aka Bad Blood (USA)
... aka The Night Is Young
Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1986) .... Esther Bouloire
... aka They've Killed Her! (UK: festival title)
Meilleur de la vie, Le (1985) .... Une amie de Véronique au bar
... aka A Better Life (UK: festival title)
Rendez-vous (1985) .... Nina/Anne Larrieux
... aka André Téchiné's Rendez-Vous (USA: video title)
Adieu blaireau (1985) .... Brigitte B., dite B.B.
... aka Farewell blaireau (International: English title)
Vie de famille, La (1985) .... Natacha
... aka Family Life
Nanas, Les (1985) .... Antoinette
... aka Girls, Girls, Girls! (UK: festival title)
... aka The Chicks
'Je vous salue, Marie' (1985) .... Juliette
... aka Hail Mary (USA)
Fort bloqué (1985) (TV) .... Nicole
Dorothée, danseuse de corde (1983) (TV)
Liberty belle (1983) .... La fille du rallye
... aka Liberty Belle (International: English title) |
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Juliette Binoche - Related Links |
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Wikipedia: Juliette Binoche
YouTube: Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche at Babemania.com
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