Marie-Josée Croze

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Marie-Josée Croze [maʁi ʒoze kʁoz] (born February 23, 1970 in Montréal , Québec ) is a Canadian actress .

biography

childhood and education

Marie-Josée Croze was born in Montréal in 1970. Her mother suffered from severe depression and suicidal thoughts , so Croze was put up for adoption at the age of three . Her adoptive family lived in a suburb of Montreal. She grew up in her new home with four other children. While her adoptive father was an alcoholic , she described her adoptive mother as one of the most important caregivers in her life: “My mother adopted me when I was three years old. I don't think I would be here without her. My mother is a saint, ” said Croze. Croze found distraction from the gloomy everyday life by acting. At the age of 16 she joined the punk movement, the actress years later about this stage of life: “At a point where you don't feel justice when you are a victim, you start to think about your acting badly. You become someone really dark. There was a lot of anger and aggression inside me. At 16, I was a punk. That's why I didn't believe in God for a long, long time . ” After graduating from high school, Croze devoted herself to studying plastic arts at the Montréal College Cégep du Vieux-Montréal .

Beginning of the acting career

Marie-Josée Croze began her acting career with several supporting roles on Canadian television . In 1989 she made her TV debut in the French-language series Chambres en ville , which was broadcast on the French-Canadian television channel TVA from 1989 to 1996 . Richard Martin's TV film Le Choix followed two years later , as well as another supporting role in Victor-Lévy Beaulieu's crime series Montréal PQ . The 170 cm actress made her cinema debut in 1992 with Gilles Carle's comedy La Postière, in which she played a small role as a brothel girl acted. In 1993, George Mihalka's film La Florida followed , in which she played alongside Rémy Girard . The comedy about a Québécoise family who moves from Canada to sunny Florida and buys a hotel is nominated for nine Genie Awards in 1993, Canada's national film award . In the same year, Croze acted on the side of Natasha Richardson and Timothy Hutton in the TV movie Zelda , with which she celebrated her debut in the first English-language production.

In the next few years Marie-Josée Croze acted in both French and English language productions. After a supporting role in the Canadian television series Le Masque about an ice hockey player with family problems and the thriller Captive , Croze acted in 1998 on the side of Gérard Depardieu's daughter Julie in Thomas Brita's 31-minute short film HLA identique . However, it did not receive first critical attention until 1999 for the Canadian TV film Murder Most Likely by Alex Chapple . The crime drama , which is based on the partially autobiographical work The Judas Kiss: The Undercover Life of Patrick Kelly by Michael Harris , is about the real RCMP undercover agent Patrick Kelly (played by Paul Gross ), who is suspected in 1981 causing the mysterious death of his first wife. To evade the authorities , Kelly marries his second wife Marie Cartier and continues his extravagant lifestyle until 1984 when he is accused of knocking his first wife off the balcony of their luxury condominium and ending up behind bars due to false testimony. For her role as the second wife of the murder suspect, Marie-Josée Croze was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2000, which, as the equivalent of the Prix ​​Gimeaux, honors the best English-language TV productions in Canada.

Breakthrough with Maelström

In 2000, Marie Josée Croze played the role of Mara in Roger Christian's science fiction film Battlefield Earth . The 73-million-US-dollar film based on the eponymous novel trilogy of science fiction - author and Scientology -Gründers L. Ron Hubbard is based, however, fell by critics and audiences by and is regarded as one of the worst movies of all and financially ruinösesten Times. With an estimated 73 million US dollar production cost of the film played John Travolta and Forest Whitaker in the lead roles in the United States not 21 million dollars less than half of its production costs again and was charged with seven Golden Raspberry "honored", a Film award that honors the worst productions of the cinema year.

After this failure, Croze celebrated her first leading role in Denis Villeneuve's film Maelström . In the surreal drama, Croze portrays 25-year-old Bibiane, who grew up in a well-to-do family and runs several boutiques . However, while she spends her nights in exclusive clubs, her life is marked by a deep emotional emptiness. After an abortion , Bibiane drifts aimlessly through the Montrèal nightlife until an alcoholic evening ends in tragedy . Drunk, Bibiane caused a traffic accident that cost a man his life, and hit a hit. A short time later, Bibiane, plagued by guilt, meets the dead man's son, with whom she falls in love and whom she saves from a catastrophe .

For this role, Marie-Josée Croze was named Best Canadian Actress by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle in 2001 and, in the same year, the Canadian Jutra Award and Genie Award for Best Actress of the Year.

After the great success with Maelström, Marie-Josée Croze consolidated her status as one of Canada's most promising acting hopes in 2002 with the lead role in Michael Welterlin's Des chiens dans la neige . In the drama, Croze plays the young Lucie , who gains insight into the secret life of her deceased friend Antoine , who made a living from money laundering and violence . When the protagonist gets caught up in a scam by Antoine's former gangster colleague, she likes the exciting lifestyle and learns to lie.

In the same year, Croze works with her well-known compatriot Atom Egoyan . In Ararat , which deals with the difficulties of personal and community remembering the genocide employed against the Armenians (1915-1918), she acted alongside Arsinée Khanjian , Charles Aznavour and Christopher Plummer . Also in 2002 followed the lead role in Karim Hussain's drama Ascension , in which she plays the lead role, a pregnant young woman.

Triumph in Cannes

Marie-Josée Croze (right) with Bertille Noël-Bruneau while filming La Petite Chartreuse (2004)
Croze in 2012

In 2003 the collaboration with the French-Canadian auteur filmmaker Denys Arcand followed . The renowned director engaged Marie-Josée Croze for a supporting role in his tragicomedy The Invasion of the Barbarians , a sequel to his 1986 work The Fall of the American Empire . In the film about the eccentric history professor Rémy (played by Rémy Girard), who is dying, she embodies the junkie Nathalie. The young editor concludes an agreement with the enterprising Sébastien (played by Stéphane Rousseau ), the son of the seriously ill Rémy. Nathalie receives heroin free of charge , but she has to regularly give the seriously ill Rémy a dose of the drug to relieve his pain. Nathalie agrees and, while intoxicated, soon philosophizes with the eccentric professor about the meaning of life. The barbarian invasion marked the greatest achievement of Croze's career to date. The film premiered on May 21, 2003 at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival and Marie-Josée Croze was named Best Actress. When the Canadian was announced as the winner, she was in a brasserie in Montréal , and learned about the honor she is receiving in Europe via Christiane Charest 's live TV show on Radio-Canada Television . The win did not go unnoticed in the Montréaler Brasserie and there was applause from the guests present. “I don't know why I won. I never imagined that. I thought it would be more likely that Rémy Girard or Stéphane Rousseau would win. I don't have that much screen presence in the movie. It's really just a supporting role, ” said Croze about her part, which also earned her a second Genie and Jutra award as well as a nomination for the French César film award for best young actress.

After Vincenzo Natali's comedy Nothing (2003) and a supporting role in the Hollywood production Taking Lives , along with Angelina Jolie , Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland , Croze starred in Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's drama Ordo in 2004 , in which she, as the famous film actress Louise Sandoli, becomes the obsession of the title character, her former husband. Croze has no specific goal in choosing roles, “I don't have a career plan. It gives me a better perspective in other countries and it's fun because then I have more opportunities to make different types of films. But I want to get roles because of my talent and not because of a prestigious award that I have won. ” , Says the charismatic actress, who raves about the music of the American country singer Hank Williams (1923–1953).

After Laurent Tirard's romantic comedy Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités… and the relationship drama La Petite Chartreuse, Marie-Josée Croze is now one of the few North American actresses who are successful in both English and French productions. Croze worked on four film projects in 2005, including the role of a hit man in Steven Spielberg's Munich alongside Eric Bana . In 2006 Guillaume Canet's award-winning thriller No Death Word followed . Here the actress acted alongside François Cluzet and André Dussollier .

Until 2010, Croze appeared in at least two film productions per year. In 2007 she was seen as an ambitious speech therapist in Julian Schnabel's Oscar-nominated drama Butterfly and Diving Bell . For Zabou Breitman's literary adaptation I loved her and Tony Gatlif's historical film Korkoro (both 2009) won the 2010 Romy Schneider Prize . Also in 2010 she appeared in the episode Murder on the Orient Express of the English television series Agatha Christie's Poirot as Greta Ohlsson.

Filmography (selection)


Awards

  • 2000: Nominated for the Gemini Award for Murder Most Likely (Category: Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Film or Multi-Part)
  • 2001: Genie Award for Maelström (best leading actress)
  • 2001: Prix ​​Jutra for Maelström (Best Actress)
  • 2001: Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Maelström (Best Canadian Actress)
  • 2003: Actor Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for The Barbarian Invasion
  • 2004: César nomination for The Invasion of the Barbarians (Best New Actress)
  • 2004: Prix Jutra for The Invasion of the Barbarians (Best Actress)
  • 2004: Genie Award for The Invasion of the Barbarians (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 2010: Romy Schneider Prize

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personal data
SURNAME Croze, Marie-Josée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal , Québec , Canada