Marina Hands

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Marina Hands

Andrea Marina Hands (born January 10, 1975 in Paris , common pronunciation of the name: [maʀina 'ɑ̃ds]) is a French theater and film actress . She became known to a wide audience for her interpretation of Lady Chatterley in Pascale Ferran 's film of the same name (2006), for which she was awarded the César , among others , and for her supporting role as Delphine Garnier in the series Black Spot (2017).

biography

childhood and education

Marina Hands was born in Paris in 1975 (other sources give 1977 as the year of birth) as the daughter of the French actress Ludmila Mikaël and the British theater director Terry Hands . Since her parents divorced early, she grew up in France with her mother, who protected her from the tough everyday acting as an actor. She spent the summers at a young age with her father in England, who at that time made a name for himself as artistic director and later as director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and often took his daughter with him to theater rehearsals or performances. Hands had no plans to become an actress. She wanted to be different from her parents, especially from her mother. In her childhood, the painter's granddaughter Pierre Dmitrienko warmed herself to dance and horses, and so she matured into a talented show jumper . “As a teenager, I took the train and rode my horse to Normandy or the forest. Evenings with friends didn't interest me. I was only happy in nature. My friends gave me the name Pocahontas. ” As a young show jumper, she won several prizes, was appointed to the French junior national team and took part in European championships. At the age of 18, however, she realized that she would probably be denied a successful athletic career among senior women.

After graduating from high school, Hands took a year off before the 19-year-old enrolled in English at the university at her father's request, which she soon dropped out of. She decided to follow in her mother's footsteps and pursue an acting education, even though Ludmila Mikaël is a successful and highly respected theater actress in France. At the beginning of her career, Hands therefore feared critical voices who would not take her ambitions seriously but see them as being based on the good contacts between her famous parents.

A year later, in 1995, Hands succeeded in entering the Classe Libre of the Paris drama school Ecole de l 'Acteur Florent , where famous French mimes such as Isabelle Adjani , Daniel Auteuil and Sophie Marceau had completed their acting training. At the Cours Florent, the initially very reserved drama student received two years of lessons from Philippe Joiris, where she found her mentor and who strengthened her self-confidence. “I realized that acting was therapeutic for me. I was very inhibited, closed and suddenly I freed myself. When I started experimenting with playing strong characters, I had the overwhelming, crazy feeling that there was another person inside of me and revealing themselves. I was no longer the sweet, angel-faced Marina with the weak voice ... " , says Hands.

She then prepared for the entrance examination at the renowned Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD) and in 1996 received her first, small role in Gérard Desarthes and François Marthouret's production of Hjalmar Söderberg's Gertrud at the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris . Desarthe and Hand's mother Ludmila Mikaël starred in the drama. By her mother with the figure of Dona Prouhèze from Claudel -Stück Le Soulier de Satin compared Hands took a little later recording on the CNSAD. There she completed her training as an actress until 1999. In the first year she studied with the acting professor Muriel Mayette. She spent her second year with John Link and Collin Cook at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), where she directed John Bashford and Penny Cherns in Ödön von Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods and William Shakespeare's The Merchant from Venice acted.

For the last year of her training, she moved back to the Conservatoire in Paris to work with Patrice Chéreau and Klaus Michael Grüber . Hands was assigned to the German theater director's studio and appeared in his version of Luigi Pirandello's Die Riesen vom Berge in October 1998 , in which she played alongside Michel Piccoli . Le Monde was already celebrating her as a star rising in the acting sky and compared the delicate, brunette actress with her mother. "In addition to the beauty, she has the mystery, the grace, the strength, which [...] show an undeniable talent."

Theater career

In her third year of training at the Conservatoire, at the end of 1998 she was engaged in Adrian Brine's Paris production of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance , Le bel air de Londres , at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin . Her first major leading role, in which, as a young heiress in England from Oscar Wilde , she wants to become engaged to an old, immoderate and youth-loving lord (played by Robert Hirsch ), brought her a nomination for the most important French theater prize Molière as best Young actress a. The collaboration with Hirsch was followed between 1998 and 1999 by the title role in Arthur Schnitzler's Fräulein Else on a three-month theater tour with Didier Long , who had previously successfully performed the play in Paris with Isabelle Carré . In March and November / December 2001 she interpreted the female lead in Jacques Weber's version of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (which relies on a young theater ensemble) in Nice and Bobigny with Roxane , for which she again received high praise from French critics reaped.

Her breakthrough as a theater actress followed at the end of January 2003 with Patrice Chéreau's opulent production of Phèdre , in which Hands was seen alongside the heroine Dominique Blanc and Pascal Greggory . Equipped with costumes by the award-winning designer Moidele Bickel ( Die Bartholomäusnacht ) , the Racine tragedy was celebrated as a “triumph” in Paris and described beyond the borders of France - for example by the Süddeutsche Zeitung - as a “sensation”, which three months later in Bochum Ruhr Triennale Festival and was published in France in a television version that same year. For the part of Arikia (was expanded by Chéreau and praised by the Liberation as a self-confident and simple portrait), Hands was nominated again a few months later for best supporting actress for Molière, which Annie Sinigalia (Poste Restante) then received. By her own admission, seeing Patrice Chéreau again was a major turning point in her career. Phèdra let her "grow" and the theater director gave her her "independence". Dominique Blanc predicted an international career for the young actress after the collaboration. Chéreau praised Hands for their strength and maturity, which he attributed to the demanding training in England and the more modest training at the Conservatoire.

A year later she was seen as Queen Isabelle in Thierry de Peretti's version of Shakespeare's Richard II at the Théâtre de la Ville (2004), which provoked comparisons to the German film and theater actress Angela Winkler , before joining the Comédie Ensemble at the beginning of 2006 . Française joined. At the French state theater she preserved the reputation she had gained since Phèdre as a serious theater actress; there she made her debut in the spring as the princess in Paul Claudel's Goldhaupt (March 2006) by Anne Delbée , which was followed in May 2007 by an “excellent” performance as beautiful Yse in Claudel's midday turn , directed by Yves Beaunesne. In the same role, Hands' mother Ludmila Mikaël had made her debut at Comédie-Française 32 years earlier. At the beginning of September 2007, Hands left the French state theater to devote more time to her film career. She was seen again at the Comédie-Française at the end of October as Célimène in Lukas Hemleb's Molière play The Misanthrope .

In May 2009, Hands took on the title role in Schiller's Maria Stuart at the Welsh Clwyd Theatr Cymru, directed by her father Terry Hands, opposite Claire Price . From September to October 2009 she appeared again as Yse in a production of Claudel's midday turn at the Théâtre de Marigny in Paris, with which she also went on tour.

Film and television work

Parallel to her work at the theater, the shy actress ("I'm more of a girl of the shadow") was seen in 1996 in the first short film by the actor Guillaume Canet (Sans regrets) , whom she knew from her time as a show jumper and who had a career in Equestrian circus was also closed. 2001 followed a supporting role in Andrzej Żuławski's film production Die Treue der Frauen , again at the side of Guillaume Canet and Sophie Marceau , who supported Hands during the shooting. She achieved her first success a year later with Un pique-nique chez Osiris (2000) by director Nina Companéez . In the two-part TV series, praised by Le Figaro as a “romantic fresco” and compared with films by Charlie Chaplin and plays by Anton Chekhov , she, together with Dominique Blanc and Dominique Reymond , gives a face to three French women who travel to Egypt against the backdrop of the Dreyfus Affair each revealing itself and opening itself to the world in its own way. In the same year, the part of Héloïse brought Hands the actor awards at the television festivals in Luchon and Monte Carlo . She was able to build on this in 2002 with Yves Angelo's film production Sur le bout des doigts , in which, as the mother of Anne Sophie Latour, she projects her frustration onto her daughter's piano talent.

Hands, who was compared to Emmanuelle Seigner in appearance , only became known to an international cinema audience through the small part as the fiancé of Stéphane Rousseau in Denys Arcand's tragicomedy The Invasion of the Barbarians (2003), which won the Oscar for best foreign language film and four in 2004 Césars won. For the French woman, who almost exclusively works in film dramas, commercial success came only with larger roles in period films. Hands was even nominated for the most important French film award for the first time in 2006 - for the second collaboration with Yves Angelo on the crime drama Les âmes grises , which is set at the time of the First World War . In the film adaptation of the award-winning bestselling novel by Philippe Claudel about truth, deception and guilt, she can be seen alongside Jean-Pierre Marielle , Jacques Villeret and Denis Podalydès as the beautiful teacher Lysia Verhareine, who moves to a small French village for the sake of her mobilized fiancé on the war front that is confronted with the murder of a 9-year-old girl.

While the César for the best young actress of 2006 was still awarded to Linh Dan Pham ( The Wild Beat Of My Heart ) , Hands catapulted himself the following year, after the small part as a young lover of Kristin Scott Thomas in Guillaume Canet's award-winning thriller No Death Word , with the title role of Lady Chatterley in Pascale Ferran 's film adaptation of the same name based on DH Lawrence into the ranks of leading French film actresses. For the portrayal of the English aristocrat defying the conventions of her time, who became aware of her sexuality through a triangular relationship between her husband (played by Hippolyte Girardot ), a war invalid, and a gamekeeper of the country estate ( Jean-Louis Coullo'ch ) Hands gained weight and took lessons from a buto dancer with her male co-star . The reward was the award for best leading actress at the César Awards 2007 , while the film was chosen as the best French cinema production of the previous year . Lady Chatterley , which is based on a second version of the well-known novel by Lawrence and is also available in an almost four-hour television version under the title Lady Chatterley et l'homme des bois , was also internationally acclaimed. In February 2007 it was shown in the Panorama series at the 57th Berlin Film Festival , where the taz touted it as “reserved”, “tender” and “the sensitivity of nature”. The New York Times praised Hands' Lady Chatterley as "a deceptively real mixture of poise and naturalness" and the Frenchwoman was awarded the Actor Award at the New York Tribeca Film Festival in May .

Hands is picky about her role. After Lady Chatterley , the "Lady du Français" was represented at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with Julian Schnabel's biopic Butterfly and Diving Bell . In the drama she played the lover of Mathieu Amalric , who suffers from locked-in syndrome after a stroke . Then she was traded together with Mads Mikkelsen for the main roles in William Friedkin's Coco & Igor , which was supposed to thematize the passionate love affair between the fashion designer Coco Chanel and the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky . The Hollywood production competed with the project Coco Chanel - The Beginning of a Passion by French director Anne Fontaine , who planned to film the life of young Coco with Audrey Tautou . For financial reasons, Coco & Igor was later realized in France with Mikkelsen, Anna Mouglalis and director Jan Kounen under the title Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009). Hands then acted in Ilan Flammer's drama Le temps d'un regard (2007) and in 2008 joined the ensemble of Danièle Thompson's comedy Affären à la carte (2009), in which she was seen as Karin Viard's chaotic sister with a father complex. In the same year the actress was represented on the jury of the Cinéfondation series at the 61st Cannes Film Festival alongside Danish director Susanne Bier and Olivier Assayas .

In June 2009, the French-Canadian film drama Story of Jen (2008), in which she acts as a desperate single mother from the North American suburb, followed in France . “Through Sarah (her role in Story of Jen ) I was able to express violence, loneliness: feelings that I know. I've always loved the flawed characters, ”says Hands. In early October 2009, Julie Lopes-Curval's feature film Mères et filles (2009) was released in French . While filming the drama, she was patronized by Catherine Deneuve , who took on the role of her mother. In 2011, Hands embodied Gisèle Halimi in Caroline Huppert's television film Pour Djamila . For her portrayal of the French lawyer, feminist and civil rights activist of Tunisian descent, she received a 2012 nomination for the Golden Nymph of the Monte Carlo TV Festival .

Marina Hands lives in Paris.

Plays

Filmography

  • 1996: Sans regrets (short film)
  • 2000: The loyalty of women (La Fidélité)
  • 2000: Un pique-nique chez Osiris (TV)
  • 2002: Sur le bout des doigts
  • 2003: À la fenêtre (short film)
  • 2003: The Invasion of the Barbarians (Les invasions barbaren)
  • 2004: Mon homme (short film)
  • 2005: Les âmes grises
  • 2006: No mortal word (Ne le dis à personne)
  • 2006: Lady Chatterley
  • 2007: Butterfly and diving bell (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
  • 2007: Le temps d'un regard
  • 2008: One word would have been enough (Story of Jen)
  • 2009: affairs à la carte (Le code a changé)
  • 2009: Mères et filles
  • 2010: Une exécution ordinaire
  • 2010: Ensemble, nous allons vivre une très, très grande histoire d'amour ...
  • 2011: Partage de midi (TV)
  • 2011: Voyez comme ils dansent
  • 2011: She confessed everything (Pour Djamila) (TV)
  • 2011: Side movements (Sport de filles)
  • 2013: Jappeloup - A Legend (Jappeloup)
  • 2014: French Women - What women really want (Sous les jupes des filles)

Series

Awards

Web links

Commons : Marina Hands  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documented by the Paris birth register: Extrait de naissance n ° 16/72/1975
  2. ↑ a b c cf. Le Vaillant, Luc: Debridée . In: Liberation , January 29, 2010, p. 32
  3. ↑ cf. Profile at allocine.fr (French; accessed September 28, 2010)
  4. ↑ cf. IMDb profile (accessed August 25, 2007)
  5. ↑ a b c d e cf. Aftab, Kaleem: Show of Hands . In: The Independent, August 20, 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / arts.independent.co.uk
  6. ↑ a b c cf. Thébaud, Marion: Marina Hands, une princesse pour Claudel . In: Le Figaro, March 31, 2006, Culture ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lefigaro.fr
  7. ↑ a b c d e f cf. Paola, Genone: Marina Belle des Anges . In: L'Express , June 18, 2009, No. 3024, p. 30
  8. ↑ a b c cf. Diatkine, Anne: Marina Hands, la captive de la scene . In: Liberation, April 19, 2003, No. 6822, Culture, p. 24
  9. ↑ a b c cf. Heliot, Armelle: Elle joue Roxane dans Cyrano de Bergerac à Nice: le ciel constellé de Marina Hands . In: Le Figaro, March 22, 2001, Culture
  10. ↑ cf. Salino, Brigitte: Michel Piccoli, bienveillant Charon, fait passer ses élèves de vie à théâtre . In: Le Monde, October 7, 1998, Culture
  11. ↑ cf. Londres pour Marina Hands . In: Le Figaro, November 25, 1998, On En Parle, Bla Bla
  12. ↑ cf. Thebaud, Marion: Porte Saint-Martin: un bijou comique pour Robert Hirsch . In: Le Figaro, December 9, 1998, Theater
  13. ↑ cf. "Mademoiselle Else", faux reflet . In: Le Temps, November 8, 1999, Culture
  14. ↑ cf. Dargent, Françoise: Jacques Weber présente à Bobigny sa version de la pièce de Rostand . In: Le Figaro, November 24, 2001
  15. ↑ cf. Mereuze, Didier: "Phèdre", le triomphe de la tragédie . In: Le Croix, January 24, 2003, Biographie, Culture, p. 18
  16. ↑ cf. Woe to him who speaks! . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 27, 2003, features section, p. 13
  17. ↑ cf. Wolfgang Höbel : The sex of the other . In: Der Spiegel, April 28, 2003, Theater, p. 190
  18. ↑ cf. La Bardonnie, Mathilde: Ce 'Phèdre' sidère . In: Liberation, January 24, 2003, No. 6749, Culture, p. 28
  19. ↑ a b cf. Darge, Fabienne: Marina Hands La Lady du Français . In: Le Monde, April 3, 2007, Débats, p. 21
  20. ↑ cf. La Bardonnie, Mathilde: Richard II flambant et neuf . In: Liberation, January 16, 2004, No. 7054, Culture, p. 31
  21. ↑ cf. Comédie-Française: engagement d'une nouvelle pensionnaire Marina Hands , Agence France Presse, December 20, 2005, 9:10 AM GMT
  22. ↑ cf. Héliot, Armelle: Une langue chauffée à blanc . In: Le Figaro, April 5, 2007, Culture ( Memento of the original of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lefigaro.fr
  23. ↑ cf. Partage de midi de Claudel: Marina Hands dans la lumière d'Ysé (COMPTE RENDU) , Agence France Presse, April 3, 2007, 9:40 AM GMT
  24. ↑ cf. Marina Hands quitte la Comédie-Française . In: Le Figaro, September 5, 2007, Culture
  25. ↑ cf. Théâtre: Le Misanthrope revu par Lucas Hemleb . In: Midi Libre, October 25, 2007
  26. ↑ cf. Marina Hands, comédienne accomplie au théâtre et belle révélation au cinéma (BIO-EXPRESS) , Agence France Presse, February 24, 2007, 11:30 PM GMT
  27. ↑ cf. Simon, Nathalie; Heliot, Armelle: FRANCE 2 Une fresque romanesque et en costumes sur fond d'affaire Dreyfus . In: Le Figaro, May 21, 2001, Télévision et radio
  28. ↑ cf. Sur le bout des doigts . In: Le Monde, June 12, 2002, Culture
  29. ↑ cf. Film review by Les âmes grises at variety.com ( memento of the original from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com
  30. ↑ cf. Nord, Cristina: "I love nature" . In: the daily newspaper, February 13, 2007, Berlinale, p. 27
  31. ↑ cf. Baudin, Brigitte: Pascale Ferran, fidèle à DH Lawrence . In: Le Figaro, November 1, 2006, Le Figaro et Vous - Culture ( Memento of the original of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lefigaro.fr
  32. ↑ cf. Scott, AO: Parlez-Vous Lawrence? Love, Sex and Fresh Air . In: The New York Times, June 22, 2007, Section E, Column 0, Movies, Performing Arts / Weekend Desk, Movie Review Lady Chatterley, p. 10
  33. ↑ cf. Seymour, Gene: Global films lauded . In: Newsday (New York), May 5, 2007, News, p. A06
  34. ↑ cf. Marina Hands sera Coco! at allocine.fr
  35. ↑ cf. Martin, Francesca: Arts Diary: Hollywood goes loco for Coco . In: The Guardian (London), May 30, 2007, Guardian Features Pages, G2, p. 27
  36. ↑ cf. Coulisses . In: Le Parisien, February 23, 2008, p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Hands, Marina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hands, Andrea Marina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France