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.

1 Biography
2 Films
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Marion 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. She then earned very good reviews and the attention of cinephiles via her portayal of two twins who exchange their lives after one of them dies in "Les Jolies Choses".

Although more widely known in France, Cotillard is building an international presence. In 2003, her reputation was considerably enhanced by 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. She was also buoyed by her role in Tim Burton's film Big Fish, opposite Billy Crudup and Albert Finney, which introduced her to English-speaking audiences. Cotillard further demonstrated the range of her abilities by playing 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 candidates to portray the well-known French chanteuse Édith Piaf in Olivier Dahan's take at her biopic untitled La Môme already dubbed "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] Films

La Môme (2007)
A Good Year (2006)
Fair Play (2006)
Dikkenek (2006)
Boîte noire, La (2005)
Sauf le respect que je vous dois (2005)
Mary (2005)
Ma vie en l'air (2005)
Edy (2005)
Cavalcade (2005
Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)
Innocence (2004)
Big Fish (2003)
Jeux d'enfants (2003)
Taxi 3 (2003)
Une affaire privée (2002)
Jolies choses, Les (2001)
Boomer (2001)
Lisa (2001)
Taxi 2 (2000)
Heureuse (2001)
Quelques jours de trop (2000)
Marquis, Le (2000)
Taxi (1998)

[edit] Trivia

Marion is sometimes mistaken with Flyleaf's vocalist Lacey Mosley.^{[citation needed]}
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 composer Sinclair.