Sandrine Bonnaire

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Sandrine Bonnaire

Born May 31, 1967 (1967-05-31) (age 41)
Gannat, France
Spouse(s) Guillaume Laurant (March 2003-present)

Sandrine Bonnaire (born 31 May 1967) is an internationally famous French actress.

Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class background, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in 1983, when she starred in the Maurice Pialat film À nos amours. She played, somewhat autobiographically, a girl from the suburbs beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984 she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress.

Her international breakthrough came in 1986 when she played the title role in Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond), directed by Agnès Varda, for which part she won her second César Award. She portrays an innocent vagrant, who confronted by the strife of everyday life, fails both physically and morally. The film Monsieur Hire directed by Patrice Leconte followed in 1989, along with further work with directors Jacques Doillon and Claude Sautet. In 2004, she starred in another Patrice Leconte's film: Intimate Strangers, which was an arthouse box office hit in the United States.[1]

She has a daughter from a relationship with the actor William Hurt, whom she met in 1991 during filming of the Albert Camus novel La Peste (The Plague). Since March 2003 she has been married to fellow actor and screenwriter Guillaume Laurant; the couple have one daughter.

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