Sophie Marceau

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Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau as Elektra King inThe World Is Not Enough Promoshoot
Birth name Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu
Born November 17, 1966 (age 40)
Paris, France
Notable roles The World Is Not Enough (1999) as Elektra King, Braveheart (1995) as Princess Isabelle

Sophie Marceau /sɔfi maʁso/ (born November 17, 1966) is a French actress.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Actress

  • La Boum (also known as The Party) (1980)
  • La Boum 2 (1982)
  • Fort Saganne (1984)
  • Joyeuses Pâques (also known as Happy Easter) (1984)
  • L'Amour braque (1985)
  • Le Flics (also known as Police) (1985)
  • Descente aux enfers (Descent Into Hell) (1986)
  • L'étudiante (also known as The Student) (1988)
  • Chouans ! (1988)
  • Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours (1989)
  • Pacific Palisades (1990)
  • Pour Sacha (1991)
  • La Note bleue (1991)
  • Fanfan (also known as Fanfan & Alexandre) (1993)
  • La Fille de d'Artagnan (The Daughter of D'Artagnan) (1994)
  • Braveheart (1995)
  • Beyond the Clouds (1995)
  • Anna Karenina (1997)
  • Marquise (1997, by Véra Belmont)
  • Firelight (1997, by William Nicholson)
  • Lost & Found (1999)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) as Hippolyta
  • The World Is Not Enough (1999) as Elektra King
  • Fidélité (Fidelity) (2000)
  • Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre (also known as Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre) (2001)
  • Alex & Emma (2003)
  • Je reste ! (2003, by Diane Kurys)
  • Les clefs de bagnole (also known as The Car Keys) (2003)
  • A ce soir (2004)
  • Anthony Zimmer (2005)
  • Les Femmes de l'ombre (2007, by Jean-Paul Salomé)

[edit] Writer and Director

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

  • Marianne, a national emblem of France; Marceau was considered to be an official model for her image, but Laëtitia Casta won the vote instead of her.

[edit] External links

Preceded by
Jonathan Pryce		 Official James Bond villain actor
1999 with Robert Carlyle		 Succeeded by
Toby Stephens
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