Emmanuelle Béart Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Director
French nationality
Birth August 14, 1963 (Saint-Tropez, Var, France)

BIOGRAPHY
Daughter of singer Guy Béart and Genevieve Galea , model seen in Les Carabiniers , Emmanuelle Béart took her first steps on screen at age 7 in La Course du lièvre à travers les champs (1972). Having gone to study in Montreal, she meets Robert Altman in a nightclub, who hires her for a film that will not see the light of day. Back in France, she appeared with David Hamilton , then starred in L’Amour en souse and Un amour perdu , two films which each earned her a nomination for the César for Most Promising Actor. But the character that brought her fame was that of the wild Manon from Les Sources for Claude Berri , with a César for Best Supporting Role in 1987. Far

from her glamorous image, Emmanuelle Béart made a remarkable composition as a delinquent in 1989 in Children of Disorder . Her career was then punctuated by meetings with great authors: Rivette (she posed nude in La Belle noiseuse in 1991), Techiné , who made her play a prostitute in J’mbras pas , or Chabrol ( L’Enfer ). This admirer of Romy Schneider finds two of her most beautiful roles in Sautet ‘s latest films : a violinist who turns the lives of two musicians upside down in A Heart in Winter , and the strange confidante of an old writer played by Michel Serrault in Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995), two great successes. Wargnier offers him another strong character in A French Woman , but the public is not there.

After a detour through Hollywood ( Mission Impossible in 1996), this sensual actress with a melancholic look was the moving heroine of Assayas ‘s fresco Les Destinées sentimentales in 2000 . If we find his feverish temperament in Time Regained or La Répétition (2001). Béart enjoys playing lecherous servants in 8 Women of Ozon (2002). The demanding Rivette ( Histoire de Marie et Julien ) and Techiné ( Les Egarés in 2003, Les Témoins ) show themselves faithful to the one who retains her status as a sex symbol ( Nathalie…) and continues to occupy a central place in French cinema. After La Bûche , she starred in unifying films like The Hero of the Family (2006) or My Stars and Me .

Known for her commitments as a citizen, the actress invests herself just as much in her roles, whether for a commercial comedy ( Disco , 2008) or an extraordinary trip film ( Vinyan ). Emmanuelle Béart returns to sentimental dramas with It begins at the end (2009), a tumultuous couple relationship with and by Michaël Cohen , her companion in the city, then with Bye Bye Blondie (2010) by Virginie Despentes , the story of an adolescent homosexual love which has repercussions on the lives of the protagonists, who have become adults. At the same time, the actress is shocking in the role of a terminally ill cancer patient, living her last moments in My Night Companion .

Busy with her numerous humanitarian commitments, Emmanuelle Béart became rarer in the cinema in the 2010s. She still collaborated twice with Jeanne Balibar , in For example, Electre and especially Merveilles à Montfermeil, a political comedy in which the actress played the new mayor of the town of 93.