Audrey Tautou
Audrey Tautou was born in Beaumont, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France on August 9th, 1976 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 48, Audrey Tautou biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Audrey Justine Tautou (born 9 August 1976) is a French actress.
Signed by an agent at age 17, she made her acting debut at 18 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Venus Beauty Institute (1999), for which she received critical acclaim and won the César Award for Most Promising Actress.
Tautou achieved international recognition for her lead role in the 2001 film Amélie, which met with critical acclaim and was a major box-office success.
Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards, four César Awards (including Best Film and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including Best Original Screenplay), and was nominated for five Academy Awards. Tautou has since appeared in films in a range of genres, including the thrillers Dirty Pretty Things and The Da Vinci Code, and the romantic Priceless (2006).
She has received critical acclaim for her many roles including the drama A Very Long Engagement (2004) and the biographical drama Coco avant Chanel (2009).
She has been nominated three times for the César Award and twice for the BAFTA for Best Actress in a leading role.
She became one of the few French actors in history to be invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in June 2004.Tautou has modeled for Chanel, Montblanc, L'Oréal and many other companies.
She is an active supporter of several charities.
Early life
Tautou was born in Beaumont and was raised in Montluçon. Her father Bernard Tautou is a dental surgeon, and her mother Eveline is a teacher. She was named after actress Audrey Hepburn. Tautou showed an interest in acting at an early age and started her acting lessons at the Cours Florent. There she learned English and Italian.
Personal life
She studied at the Institut Catholique de Paris. A church-goer when young, she has stated that she is "not officially" Catholic.
Tautou says she considers France her base, where she plans to focus her career, rather than in the United States. 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."
Acting career
Tautou performed in "Jeunes Premiers" (The Young Debuts) in 1998 and was named Best Young Actress at the 9th Béziers Festival of Young Actors. (The Young Debuts) is a television show sponsored by Canal+. Tonie Marshall was educated by the César-winning Venus Beauty Institute (1999, also known as Vénus beauté (institut)). She received the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 2000 as her country's most promising young film actress.
Tautou gained international recognition in 2001 for her role as the eccentric lead in the French romantic comedy Amélie Poulain (original French title: Le Fabuleux Destination d'Amélie Poulain; English: Amélie Poulain), a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film. The film, directed by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, is a whimsical representation of modern Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the tale of a shy waitress who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better while also struggling with her own loneliness. The film was a global collaboration between French and German companies.
The film received critical acclaim and was a big box-office hit. Amélie received Best Film at the European Film Awards; it received four Céder Awards (including Best Film and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including Best Original Screenplay), and was nominated for five Academy Awards. Although it has limited theatrical release, it is still the country's highest-grossing French-language film.
In 2002, she appeared in the British thriller film Dirty Pretty Things starring Stephen Frears and written by Steven Knight, a drama about two illegal immigrants in London. It was produced by BBC Films and Celador Films. In 2003, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and "Best Independent British Film Award for Best Original Screenplay."
She appeared in A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's romantic war film co-written and directed in 2004. It's a fictional story about a young woman's desperate hunt for her fiancé, who may have been killed in World War I. It was based on a Sebastien Japrisot novel that had first appeared in 1991. She was accepted to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in June.
Tautou appeared in her first full Hollywood film in 2005, opposite Tom Hanks in Dan Brown's best-selling book The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and released in May 2006.
She appeared in Pierre Salvadori's Hors de prix (Priceless), which was released on December 13, 2006. The film has been likened to Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Tautou appeared in Claude Berri's Ensemble, c'est tout in 2007, an adaptation of Anna Gavalda's eponymous book.
Tautou was the lead actress in Coco avant Chanel, a film directed by Anne Fontaine and Coco Chanel. Filming began in Paris in September 2008 and was then released in France on April 22, 2009. The script is based on Edmonde Charles-Roux's book "L'Irrégulière" ("The Non-Conformist"). Warner Bros. let Sony Pictures Classics handle the publication rather than releasing Coco Before Chanel in the United States itself. In the United States, the film grossed $6 million.
Coco Before Chanel was nominated for four BAFTA Awards, three European Film Awards, six César Awards, and the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
She appeared in Delicacy, a French romantic comedy-drama starring David and Stéphane Foenkinos and based on David Foenkinos' novel of the same name. David was nominated for the 2012 Best Writing (Adaptation) César Award, and the film was nominated as Best Film.
She appeared in "I Love Your Smile," a British singer-songwriter Charlie Winston's hit song.
She was the host of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival's opening and closing ceremonies.
She was a member of the jury of the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. Simone Melchior Cousteau appeared in The Odyssey, a 2016 film.
Public image and modelling career
Tautou began modeling at a young age, attending simulation workshops and other events, and has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, and several others.
In 2009, Tautou was selected as the next spokesmodel for Chanel No. 2 in Los Angeles. Nicole Kidman was promoted to 5 in place of Nicole Kidman. She was directed in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's commercial, in which she worked on Amélie and A Very Long Engagement. The commercial was released in 2009 to coincide with the introduction of Coco before Chanel's unveiling. She has also been the face of L'Oreal and Montblanc, as well as several other national ad campaigns.
Tautou has been dubbed a fashionista and icon by the media over the years, appearing in numerous publications, fashion, beauty, and culture. She has attended major fashion week shows around the world as well as smaller events. She is often referred to in the media as "the Chanel Muse."