Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard born September 30 1975 is a French actress film producer singer songwriter and environmentalist Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters she has received various accolades including an Academy Award a British Academy Film Award a Golden Globe Award a European Film Award a Lumières Award and two César Awards She became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010 and was promoted to Officer in 2016 She has served as a spokeswoman for Greenpeace since 2001 Cotillard was the face of the Lady Dior handbag for nine years Since 2020 she is the face of Chanels fragrance Chanel No 5 Cotillard had her first Englishlanguage role in the television series Highlander 1993 and made her film debut in The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed 1994 Her breakthrough came in the successful French film Taxi 1998 which earned her a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actress She made the transition into Hollywood in Tim Burtons Big Fish 2003 and won her first César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Tina Lombardi in JeanPierre Jeunets A Very Long Engagement 2004 For her portrayal of French singer Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose 2007 Cotillard won her second César Award a BAFTA Award a Golden Globe Award a Lumières Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress becoming the first and as of 2022 only actor to win an Academy Award for a Frenchlanguage performance and also the second actress to have won this award for a foreign language performance Her performances in Nine 2009 Rust and Bone 2012 and Annette 2021 earned Cotillard three more Golden Globe nominations For Two Days One Night 2014 she received a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress which was also her second nomination for a Frenchlanguage film Cotillard is one of only seven actors to receive multiple Academy Award nominations for foreign language performances Cotillard has played Joan of Arc on stage in several countries between 2005 and 2022 in the oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake Her Englishlanguage films include Public Enemies 2009 Inception 2010 Contagion 2011 Midnight in Paris 2011 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 The Immigrant 2013 Macbeth 2015 and Allied 2016 She provided voice acting for the animated films The Little Prince 2015 April and the Extraordinary World 2015 and the French version of Minions 2015 Her other notable French Belgian and Canadian films include La Belle Verte 1996 Pretty Things 2001 Love Me If You Dare 2003 Dikkenek 2006 Little White Lies 2010 and Its Only the End of the World 2016 Description above from the Wikipedia article Marion Cotillard licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia