Audrey Tautou
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| Born | Audrey Justine Tautou 9 August 1976/1978 Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1996–present |
Audrey Justine Tautou (French pronunciation: [odʁɛ totu]; born 9 August either in 1976[1][2][3][4] or 1978[5][6]) is a French film actress, known to worldwide audiences for playing the title character in the award-winning 2001 film Amélie, Sophie Neveu in the 2006 thriller The Da Vinci Code, Irène in Priceless (2006) and Coco Chanel in Coco Avant Chanel. She also won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in Venus Beauty Institute (1999).
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Early life
Tautou was born in the Puy-de-Dôme département of Auvergne, and was raised in Montluçon[2] in nearby Allier, Auvergne. Her father is a dental surgeon and her mother is a teacher.[7] Tautou showed an interest in comedy at an early age and started her acting lessons at the Cours Florent.[8] She is one of several famous actors to have attended Cours Florent (others including Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil and Guillaume Canet). After graduating she went on to star in some of French cinema's biggest and most famous films.
Career
In 1998, Tautou participated in a Star Search-like competition sponsored by Canal+ called "Jeunes Premiers" (The Young Debut) and won Best Young Actress at the 9th Béziers Festival of Young Actors. Then, she came to the attention of Tonie Marshall, who gave her a role in the César-winning Venus Beauty Institute (1999, aka Vénus beauté (institut)). In 2000, she won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as her country's most promising young film actress. In 2001 Tautou rose to international fame for her performance as the eccentric lead in the romantic comedy Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie). In June 2004, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).[9]
In 2005, Tautou worked in her first full Hollywood production, opposite Tom Hanks, in the film version of Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and released in May 2006. She acted alongside Gad Elmaleh in Pierre Salvadori's Hors de prix (Priceless), released 13 December 2006. The film has been compared to Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Tautou starred with Guillaume Canet in Claude Berri's Ensemble, c'est tout in 2007, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Anna Gavalda.
Tautou played the lead role in the biopic of fashion designer Coco Chanel. Filming began in Paris in September 2008, and released in France on April 22, 2009. The film is titled Coco avant Chanel, and is directed by Anne Fontaine.[10][11][12][13] The script of the movie is partially based on Edmonde Charles-Roux’s book “L’Irrégulière” (”The Non-Conformist”). As part of promoting the film, Tautou was named as the next spokesmodel for Chanel No. 5, replacing Nicole Kidman. She was directed in the advertisement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with whom she worked on Amélie and A Very Long Engagement. The advertisement was released in 2009 to coincide with the film's release.[14][15][16]
She appeared in the video of "I Love Your Smile", a song by British singer-songwriter Charlie Winston.
Personal life
Her favourite authors are Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Paul Auster, and Timothy Zahn; and her favourite poets are Charles Baudelaire and Tristan Tzara. She was brought up attending church, though she has now stated that she is "not officially" a Catholic. She is fascinated by monkeys.[17] She takes pictures of each reporter who interviews her and keeps them in a scrapbook. Tautou says she still considers France her base, and plans to pursue a career predominantly there rather than crossing over to the United States. As she told Stevie Wong of The Straits Times:
"I am, at the end of the day, a French actress. I am not saying I will never shoot an English-language movie again, but my home, my community, my career is rooted in France. I would never move to Los Angeles."[18]
After the premiere of the film Amélie (for which she received phenomenal amounts of paparazzi and press coverage) she travelled to the jungles of Indonesia to help with the preservation of a monkey sanctuary.
The song "Tautou" by Brand New, from the album Déjà Entendu ("previously heard") is named after her.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1999 | Venus Beauty Institute | Marie | César Award for Most Promising Actress Lumiere Award for Most Promising Young Actress |
| Triste à Mourir | Caro | ||
| 2000 | Marry Me | Marie-Ange | |
| Pretty Devils | Anne-Sophie | ||
| The Libertine | Julie d'Holbach | ||
| Happenstance | Irène | ||
| 2001 | Amélie | Amélie Poulain | Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer Lumiere Award for Best Actress Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actress Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated - César Award for Best Actress Nominated - European Film Award for Best Actress Nominated - European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actress Nominated - Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Newcomer Nominated - Empire Award for Best Actress Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| God Is Great and I'm Not | Michèle | ||
| 2002 | He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not | Angélique | |
| Dirty Pretty Things | Senay Gelik | Nominated - European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actress | |
| L'Auberge espagnole | Martine | ||
| 2003 | Lost Seamen | Lalla | |
| Not on the Lips | Huguette Verberie | ||
| Happy End | Val Chipzik | ||
| 2004 | A Very Long Engagement | Mathilde | Nominated - César Award for Best Actress Nominated - European Film Award for Best Actress Nominated - European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actress |
| 2005 | The Russian Dolls | Martine | |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | Sophie Neveu | |
| Priceless | Irène | NRJ Cíne Award for Best Kiss | |
| 2007 | Hunting and Gathering | Camille | |
| 2009 | Coco Before Chanel | Coco Chanel | Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated - César Award for Best Actress |
References
- ↑ A very big engagement, London: Times Online, http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article715245.ece, retrieved 2008-08-22
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Montlucon's Jules Ferry college alumnus, http://coll-ferry-montlucon.planet-allier.com/, http://coll-ferry-montlucon.planet-allier.com/celebres.html, retrieved 2008-08-28
- ↑ Birth certificate, Les Gens du Cinema, http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=tautou&nom_acteur=TAUTOU%20Audrey&ident=55466&debut=0&record=0, retrieved 2008-08-22
- ↑ Transcript of interview from French edition of Elle, Elle, French edition issue 3068, October 2004, http://web.archive.org/web/20060515141812/http://fandeaudreytautou.free.fr/interview_elle_uldf.php, retrieved 2008-08-28
- ↑ Vanderschelden, Isabelle (2006), Amélie ; Le Fabuleux Destin D' Amélie Poulain, I. B. Tauris, pp. 21, ISBN 9781845113759
- ↑ Audrey Tautou, Encyclopædia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1020875/Audrey-Tautou, retrieved 2008-08-22
- ↑ Biographie, Fan de Andrey Tautou, http://web.archive.org/web/20060516040918/fandeaudreytautou.free.fr/Bio.php, retrieved 2009-10-28
- ↑ Les florentins qui font la réputation de nore école, Cours Florent, http://www.coursflorent.fr/index.php/box-office, retrieved 2009-10-28
- ↑ Academy Invites 127 to Membership
- ↑ Reynolds, Simon (August 27 2008). "Warner Bros. backs Chanel biopic". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a126980/warner-bros-backs-chanel-biopic.html?imdb.
- ↑ Tautou at Imdb
- ↑ Coco Before Chanel at Imdb
- ↑ Audrey Tautou: The New Coco Chanel
- ↑ New role for Audrey Tautou, Daily Telegraph, 2008-05-11, http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23676294-5006013,00.html, retrieved 2008-05-21
- ↑ Snead, Elizabeth (2008-05-05), Is it a bird or a plane? Sarah Jessica Parker won't save the Costume Gala?, Los Angeles Times, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/05/tonights-metrop.html, retrieved 2008-05-21
- ↑ Audrey Tautou new face of Chanel, China Daily, 2008-05-16, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2008-05/16/content_6690516.htm, retrieved 2008-05-21
- ↑ WENN (May 11, 2006). "Tautou dismisses Da Vinci controversy". Actress Archives.com. UGO Entertainment. http://www.actressarchives.com/news.php?id=1139.
- ↑ WONG, STEVIE (May 28, 2006). "From Amelie to Sophie". The Straits Times, Singapore/Asia News Network (The Star Online eCentral). http://star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2006/5/28/movies/14320977&sec=movies.
External links
- Audrey Tautou at the Internet Movie Database
- Audrey Tautou at Allmovie
- Audrey Tautou at Yahoo! Movies
- Audrey Tautou at TV.com
- NY Daily News Interview 21 November 2004
- MSNBC Interview 23 November 2004
- UK Story & Interview 16 January 2005
- Interview: This is London 19 January 2005
- Interview: From Amelie to Sophie 17 May 2006
- Jon Henley, "It doesn't take much to catch a man" The Guardian, June 13, 2008, interview about Priceless (film)
- MOViEmaven List an article about Audrey Tautou from an online resource for foreign and American independent film.