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

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). Overnight, the film elevated her to teenage idol status in France and many other European countries and Japan.

Two years later, the less funny but more sentimental sequel La Boum 2 (1982) increased her popularity further. In 1983, she was honoured with a César Award (France's equivalent of an Oscar) for "Most Promising Actress".

At age 18, she played a more demanding role in Fort Saganne (1984), in which her co-stars were Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve. The same year she played with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Joyeuses Pâques (1984), based on the play by Jean Poiret.

She showed her dramatic skills in films directed by her long-time companion, director Andrzej Zulawski: "L'Amour braque" (1985), "Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours" (1989), "La Note bleue" (1991), and "Fidélité" (2000).

Marceau rose to international stardom playing the part of Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson's historical epic Braveheart (1995).

Following this success, 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 her friend Godrèche.

Filmography

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)
• 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)

Writer and Director

• L'Aube à l'envers (1995, short)
• Parlez-moi d'amour (2002)

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 Zulawski, born 24 July 1995.
• Gave birth to her second child, in London, a daughter Juliette, with producer Jim Lemley [13 June 2002].
• Sophie was chosen as Ambassador of Charm for France in East Asia where she enjoys great popularity.

See also

• Marianne, a national emblem of France; Marceau was an official model for her image.

External links

• Sophie Marceau — biography, filmography, picture galleries and more (fansite)

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