Emmanuelle Béart

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Emmanuelle Béart, 2015

Emmanuelle Béart (born August 14, 1963 in Gassin , Var department ) is a former mannequin and a French theater and film actress . She was 1996-2006 UNICEF - ambassador .

Life

Béart is the daughter of the engineer, poet and chansonnier Guy Béart and the former Italian-Greek mannequin Geneviève Galéa, who later became an actress. According to their own statements, other ancestors were not only Greeks and Italians, but also Russians, Spaniards, Maltese, Orientals and Croats. She spent her childhood with her four younger siblings (three sisters and one brother) on their parents' farm in Provence . In her upbringing in the liberal era of 1968 , openness in the family and social sympathy were taken for granted. She grew up without television and learned the chansons and songs of French culture while listening to the radio.

At the age of nine, she had her first small film role in René Clément's crime drama Battleship in 1972 . When she saw Romy Schneider play in Mado (1976), she made up her mind to become an actress. In 1980 she went to Montreal , Canada. The plan was originally 15 days, but she liked the country and its people so much that she stayed there for almost four years. She worked as an au pair girl, completed her school education with a baccalauréat and also learned English. There she was encouraged by director Robert Altman to continue as an actress. After returning to France, she took acting lessons from Jean-Laurent Cochet from 1983 . A first success came in 1986 with the role of a shepherd girl in the Marcel Pagnol film adaptation of Manon's Revenge (with Yves Montand ).

... and in 2000

In 1987 she was selected by director Tom McLoughlin from among 5,000 candidates to direct the fantasy comedy Date With an Angel in Hollywood . For the role in Jacques Rivette's film The Beautiful Troublemaker , in which she played a mysterious nude model alongside Michel Piccoli , she was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival . She then worked in films by well-known filmmakers such as Claude Sautet ( A Heart in Winter ) , André Téchiné ( I don't kiss ) , Claude Chabrol ( Hell ) and François Ozon ( 8 women ) . Béart is considered a perfectionist in her métier. She took violin lessons for a year for the film Ein Herz im Winter and took singing lessons for the role of a cabaret singer in Le héros de la famille .

With her erotic charisma, Béart is one of the stars of French cinema. In 2006 she presented the H&M Christmas lingerie collection .

social commitment

From 1996 to March 2006 she was the ambassador of the French committee of UNICEF and traveled for a total of six UNICEF missions to various developing countries, including rehabilitation measures for former child soldiers in Sierra Leone . She resigned her mandate because she was disappointed with the promises made by various governments that they would provide adequate medical care for AIDS orphans. But she remained a member of the UNICEF France sponsorship committee. She also campaigned for illegal immigrants ( sans papiers ). During the occupation of the Church of Saint-Bernard in the 18th arrondissement of Paris by immigrants in 1996, she was provisionally arrested like many others; Because of this, she lost her advertising contract with the Dior fashion house .

family

While filming the film Der Filou (L'amour en douce), she met Daniel Auteuil in 1984 . They became a couple; their relationship, which lasted until 1994, has a daughter. She also has a son with musician and producer David Moreau .

In August 2008 she married the actor and writer Michaël Cohen in her house in Genappe, Belgium . In 2007 he published the novel Ça commence par la fin , for which Béart is said to have served as a model for his heroine Gabrielle. In 2010 she played the lead role in the feature film of the same name, which her husband directed and played the second role.

Awards

For her acting performance in Manon's Revenge , she received a César for best supporting actress in 1987 ; She had previously been nominated seven times for the most important French film award - five of them in the category Best Actress . In 1993, Béart won the Italian David di Donatello as best foreign actress for Ein Herz im Winter, together with the later Oscar winner Emma Thompson . In 2002 she received the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival (“Outstanding Artistic Achievement”) and the European Film Prize for best actress for François Ozone's crime comedy 8 Women, together with the entire female acting ensemble around Catherine Deneuve , Isabelle Huppert and Fanny Ardant .

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Emmanuelle Béart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Child soldiers. Interview with Emmanuelle Beart “ ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), arte , May 2004
  2. ↑ “When are you ready for comedies, Madame Béart?” FAZ , August 10, 2007
  3. ^ “Emmanuelle Béart leaves l'UNICEF” , gofeminin.de , March 28, 2006
  4. ↑ Video: Evacuation St Bernard , Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA), 23 August 1996, 3:31 min.
  5. ↑ Video: Interview Emmanuelle Béart , Institut national de l'audiovisuel, 23 August 1996, 4:15 min.
  6. ↑ Béarts arrest (photo 13) , FAZ , August 10, 2007
  7. ↑ "Personal details. Emmanuelle Béart ” , Der Spiegel , September 15, 2008, No. 38, p. 200
personal data
SURNAME Béart, Emmanuelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Gassin