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Sophie Marceau
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Sophie Marceau /sɔfi maʁso/ (born November 17, 1966) is a French actress.
Contents
- 1 Career
- 2 Filmography
- 2.1 Actress
- 2.2 Writer and Director
- 3 Trivia
- 4 See also
- 5 External links
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Career
Born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu in Paris, France, her career started at age 14 when Claude Pinoteau cast her in the starring role of the teenager movie La Boum (1980).
Two years later, she appeared in the sequel
La Boum 2. In
1983, she was honoured with a
César Award (France's equivalent of an
Oscar) for "Most Promising Actress".
At age 18, she appeared in Fort Saganne (1984), in which her co-stars were Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve. During the same year she acted with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Joyeuses Pâques (1984), based on the play by Jean Poiret.
She also appeared in films directed by director Andrzej Żuławski: "L'Amour braque" (1985), "Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours" (1989), "La Note bleue" (1991), and "Fidélité" (2000).
Marceau played the part of Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson's historical epic Braveheart (1995).
Following this, she appeared in
A Midsummer Night's Dream (
1999), and as
Bond girl/
villain Elektra King in the
James Bond film
The World Is Not Enough (
1999).
Marceau wrote a semi-autobiographical novel Telling Lies (2001), and tried directing as well. Making her directorial debut in a feature film, Marceau was awarded Best Director by the jury of the 2002 Montreal World Film Festival for her film Parlez-moi d'amour starring Judith Godrèche. Prior to this, in 1995, she had made a nine-minute short film, L'Aube à l'envers, which also starred Godrèche.
Filmography
Actress
Writer and Director
Trivia
- Measurements: 36 1/4C-23 1/2- 35 1/2 (in 1990) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
- Sophie is an animal lover and environmentalist.
- Her manager is Dominique Besnehard and who also discovered her. Besnehard also discovered Sandrine Bonnaire, Béatrice Dalle, Laure Marsac, Jean-Hugues Anglade, etc...
- Son Vincent, with Andrzej Żuławski, born 24 July 1995.
- Gave birth to her second child, in London, a daughter Juliette, with producer Jim Lemley on 13 June 2002.
- Sophie was chosen as Ambassador of Charm for France in East Asia where she enjoys great popularity.
