| Audrey Tautou | |
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Audrey Tautou at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival |
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| Born | Audrey Justine Tautou 9 August 1976 or 9 August 1978 Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France |
| Occupation | Actress[1] |
| Years active | 1996–present |
Audrey Justine Tautou (French: [odʁɛ totu]; born 9 August 1976[2][3][4][5] or 1978[6][1]) is a French film actress,[1] best known for playing the title character in the award-winning 2001 film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Sophie Neveu in the 2006 thriller The Da Vinci Code, Irène in Priceless (2006) and Coco Chanel in Coco avant Chanel. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in Venus Beauty Institute (1999).
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Tautou was born in Beaumont, in the Puy-de-Dôme département of Auvergne, and was raised in Montluçon[3] in nearby Allier. Her father is an oral surgeon and her mother is a teacher.[7] Tautou showed an interest in acting at an early age and started her acting lessons at the Cours Florent.[8]
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. Tonie Marshall 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.[10]
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, titled Coco avant Chanel, and directed by Anne Fontaine.[11][12][13][14] Filming began in Paris in September 2008, and released in France on 22 April 2009. The script 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.[15][16]
She appeared in the video of "I Love Your Smile", a song by British singer-songwriter Charlie Winston.[17]
She has studied at the Institut Catholique de Paris.[18] She was brought up attending church, though she has now stated that she is "not officially" a Catholic.[19]
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."[20]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1996 | Cœur de cible | TV movie | |
| 1997 | La Vérité est un vilain défaut | The telephone operator | TV movie |
| 1997 | Les Cordier, juge et flic | Léa | TV movie, episode: Le Crime d'à côté |
| 1998 | La Vieille Barrière | A girl in the district | TV movie |
| 1998 | Bébés boum | Elsa | TV movie |
| 1998 | Chaos technique | Lisa | TV movie |
| 1998 | Julie Lescaut | Tracy | TV movie, episode: Bal masqué |
| 1999 | Le Boiteux | Blandine Piancet | TV movie, episode: Baby blues |
| 1999 | Venus Beauty Institute | Marie | Original title: Vénus beauté (institut) |
| 1999 | Triste à mourir | Caro | Short film |
| 2000 | Épouse-moi | Marie-Ange | |
| 2000 | Pretty Devils | Anne-Sophie | Original title: Voyou, voyelles |
| 2000 | Le Libertin | Julie d'Holbach | |
| 2000 | Happenstance | Irène | Original title: Le Battement d'ailes du papillon |
| 2001 | Amélie | Amélie Poulain | Original title: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain |
| 2001 | God Is Great and I'm Not | Michèle | Original title: Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite |
| 2002 | He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not | Angélique | Original title: À la folie... pas du tout |
| 2002 | Pot Luck | Martine | Other title: The Spanish Apartment; Original title: L'Auberge espagnole |
| 2002 | Dirty Pretty Things | Senay Gelik | |
| 2002 | L'auberge Espagnole | Martine | |
| 2003 | Les Marins perdus | Lalla | |
| 2003 | Not on the Lips | Huguette Verberie | Original title: Pas sur la bouche |
| 2003 | Nowhere to Go But Up | Val Chipzik | Original title: Happy End |
| 2004 | A Very Long Engagement | Mathilde | Original title: Un long dimanche de fiançailles |
| 2005 | The Russian Dolls | Martine | Original title: Les Poupées russes |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | Sophie Neveu | |
| 2006 | Priceless | Irène | Original title: Hors de prix |
| 2007 | Hunting and Gathering | Camille Fauque | Original title: Ensemble, c'est tout |
| 2009 | Coco Before Chanel | Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel | Original title: Coco avant Chanel |
| 2010 | Full Treatment | Emilie Dandrieux | Other title: Beautiful Lies; Original title: De vrais mensonges'.' |
| 2012 | Des vents contraires | TBA | Filming |
| 2012 | La Délicatesse | TBA | Pre-production |
| 2012 | Thérèse D | Thérèse Desqueyroux | Filming |
| 2012 | L’ Ecume des jours (Froth on the Daydream) | Chloe | Filming |
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