Marion Cotillard

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Actress Marion Cotillard in the film Jeux d'enfants (Love Me If You Dare) 2003.

Marion Cotillard (born 30 September 1975 in Paris) is a French actress.

[edit] Biography

She grew up in Orléans, Loiret in an artistically inclined family, and began her career as a film actress in the mid 1990s. She rose to greater prominence in the late 1990s when she was cast in the Luc Besson production Taxi (1998) as Lili Bertineau, a role that she reprised in two sequels and then earned very good reviews and the attention of cinephiles thanks to her portayal of two twins who exchange their lives after one of them dies in "Les Jolies Choses".

Although still principally known in France, Cotillard has begun to build a broader international profile. In 2003, her reputation was considerably enhanced by her participation in two films. First, her role as the impetuous Sophie Kowalski in Yann Samuell's Jeux d'enfants (Love Me If You Dare) proved her ability as a complex yet appealing modernly romantic lead. Secondly, Tim Burton cast her in his film Big Fish, thereby introducing her to English language audiences in a supporting role opposite Billy Crudup and Albert Finney. Cotillard further demonstrated the range of her abilities in her role as the murderous Tina Lombardi in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) (2004), and more recently in Ridley Scott's A Good Year. She was chosen among hundred's of pretendants to portray the well-known French chanteuse Édith Piaf in Olivier Dahan's take at her biopic untitled La Môme already doubled "the most awaited film of 2007" in France.

Cotillard is known to be ecologically minded, and has served as a spokesperson for Greenpeace letting the organization use her apartment for testing products for example.

[edit] Trivia

Marion is sometimes mistaken with Flyleaf's vocalist Lacey Mosley.
Marion is a huge fan of Canadian singer Hawksley Workman and starred in two of his clips.
Marion has two younger twin brothers named Quentin and Guillaume, the first being a sculptor, painter and the second one a writer.
Marion dated French singer and actor Sinclair.