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  • Plays Sophie in The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and also starring Tom Hanks (2006)
  • Was so nervous her first day on the set of The Da Vinci Code that she couldn't stop laughing
  • Photographs every reporter who interviews her; has a scrapbook of their pictures
  • Wanted to be a primatologist when she was a child, because she so loved monkeys
  • Was named Best Newcomer by France's Canal Plus for her work on French TV (1999)
  • Played oboe in a youth orchestra
  • Won Best New Actress César Award for the film Vénus beauté (institut) (Venus Beauty Institute) (1999)
  • Was more than an hour late for audition for Venus Beauty Institute and burst out crying when she was told she couldn't audition; the director took pity on her and gave her a chance. When they called to tell her she won the role, she told the caller he must have the wrong number.
  • Was one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People (2002)
  • Role in Amélie brought her Lumiere's Best Actress award, Sant Jordi's Best Foreign Actress award and Chicago Film Critics Association's Most Promising Performer, and five other nominations for Best Actress
  • First English-language film was Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

"I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises." — Audrey Tautou

"I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen." — Audrey Tautou

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  • Born: 9 August 1978
  • Birthplace: Beaumont, France
  • Best Known As: Star of the movie Amélie

Audrey Tautou is a French actress who became an international star as the lead in the romantic comedy Amélie (Le Fabluleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, 2001). At the time she was already well-known in France as the star of Venus Beauty Salon (Vénus beauté (institut), 1999). Although she works mostly in her native language, she has also appeared in the English language film Dirty Pretty Things (2002, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor). Her other films include The Spanish Apartment (L'Auberge Espagnol, 2002), A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles, 2004, with Jodie Foster) and The Russian Dolls (Les Poupées russes, 2005). She plays a cryptographer opposite Tom Hanks (as a dashing symbologist) in The Da Vinci Code, the 2006 thriller based on the novel by Dan Brown.

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  • Born: Aug 09, 1978 in Beaumont, France
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: 2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: Amélie, A Very Long Engagement, Dirty Pretty Things
  • First Major Screen Credit: Baby Blues (1999)

Biography

Earning effusive comparisons to another Audrey, sylph-like French actress Audrey Tautou became an international star with her performance as the eponymous do-gooder in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's romantic fable Amélie (2001).

Born in Beaumont, France, Tautou's childhood interest in monkeys led to plans to become a primatologist, but she found her true calling when she began to study acting in school. After graduation, Tautou found roles on French TV, and earned Canal+'s prize in 1999 for Best Newcomer. Moving to films, Tautou quickly made a mark with her performance as Natalie Baye's young co-worker in Venus Beauty Institute (1999) and earned the César for Best New Actress.

While Tautou worked steadily, playing a supporting role in the ribald Denis Diderot biopic Le Libertin (2000) and leads in Voyous Voyelle (2000) and Happenstance (2000), her appearance in Venus Beauty Institute proved to be even more pivotal beyond her César. After original choice Emily Watson bowed out, Jeunet was disconsolate about finding the right Amélie until he saw Tautou on the Venus Beauty Institute poster. Perfectly merging Tautou's elfin mien with the title character's impish ruses for bringing happiness to everyone around her, Amélie became a record-breaking sensation in France, with Tautou hailed as the heiress to Audrey Hepburn's inimitable charm. An art house success in America, Amélie garnered more praise for Tautou and a berth as one of Entertainment Weekly's Entertainers of the Year.

While she attempted to heed Jeunet's negative experience with Alien Resurrection (1997) and refused for years to cash in with a Hollywood blockbuster, the shakily bilingual Tautou subsequently took on her first English-language role in Stephen Frears' acclaimed thriller Dirty Pretty Things (2002) and finally succumbed to the lure of La-La-Land in 2006 when she starred opposite Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's hotly anticipated The DaVinci Code. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
 
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Audrey Tautou
Born Audrey Justine Tautou
August 9 1976/1978
Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Years active 1996–present

Audrey Justine Tautou (French pronunciation: [odʁɛ totu]; born 9 August, either in 1976[1][2][3][4][5] or 1978)[6][7][8][9] is a French film actress, known to worldwide audiences for playing the title character in the award-winning 2001 film Amélie, Sophie Neveu in the 2006 thriller The Da Vinci Code, and more recently Irène in Priceless (2006). She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in Venus Beauty Institute (1999).

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Early life

Tautou was born in the Puy-de-Dôme département of Auvergne, and was raised in Montluçon in nearby Allier, Auvergne. Her father is a dental surgeon and her mother is a teacher. After the premiere of the film Amélie (for which she received phenomenal amounts of paparazzi and press coverage) she travelled to the jungles of Indonesia to help with the preservation of a monkey sanctuary. Tautou showed an interest in comedy at an early age and started her acting lessons at the Cours Florent. This theatrical institution is highly prestigious and she is one of several famous actors to have passed through its doors (others including Muriel Robin, Daniel Auteuil and Guillaume Canet). After graduating she went on to star in some of French cinema's biggest and most famous films.

Career

In 1998, Tautou participated in a Star Search-like competition sponsored by Canal+ called "Jeunes Premiers" (The Young Debut) and won Best Young Actress at the 9th Béziers Festival of Young Actors. Then, she came to the attention of Tonie Marshall, who gave her a role in the César-winning Venus Beauty Institute (1999, aka Vénus beauté (institut)). In 2000, she won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as her country's most promising young film actress.

Already well-known in France for her work in Venus Beauty Institute, in 2001 Tautou rose to international fame for her performance as the eccentric lead in the romantic comedy Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie). In June 2004 she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).[10] She accepted the invitation and is still a member as of 1 September, 2006.

In 2005, Tautou worked in her first full Hollywood production, opposite Tom Hanks, in the film version of Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and released in May 2006. She acted alongside Gad Elmaleh in Pierre Salvadori's Hors de prix, released 13 December, 2006. Tautou says she still considers France her base, and plans to pursue a career predominantly there rather than crossing over to the United States. As she told Stevie Wong of The Straits Times, "I am, at the end of the day, a French actress. I am not saying I will never shoot an English-language movie again, but my home, my community, my career is rooted in France. I would never move to Los Angeles".[11]

Tautou starred with Guillaume Canet (best known for his role in the film adaptation of The Beach) in Claude Berri's Ensemble, c'est tout in 2007, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Anna Gavalda.

Tautou is next to star in the upcoming biopic of fashion designer Coco Chanel. Filming is set to start in Paris on 15 September, 2008, and will released in France April 22, 2009. The project is titled Coco avant Chanel, and is directed by Anne Fontaine.[12][13][14] The script of the new movie[15] is partially based on Edmonde Charles-Roux’s book “L’Irrégulière” (”The Non-Conformist”). As part of promoting the new Coco Chanel bio film in May 2008, Tautou was named as the next spokesmodel for Chanel No. 5, replacing Nicole Kidman. She will be directed in the advertisement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with whom she worked on Amélie and A Very Long Engagement. The advertisement will be released in 2009 to coincide with the film's release.[16][17][18]

Personal life

Her favourite authors are Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Paul Auster, and Timothy Zahn; and her favourite poets are Charles Baudelaire and Tristan Tzara.

Tautou takes pictures of each reporter who interviews her and keeps them in a scrapbook. In France, many consider her as the "typical Occitan Auvergnate".[19] She was brought up attending church, though she has now stated that she is "not officially" a Catholic.[20]

The Brand New song "Tautou", from the album Déjà Entendu is named after her.

Following the making of Coco avant Chanel she started dating Benoît Poelvoorde whom she met on set.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Natacha Régnier
for The Dreamlife of Angels		 César Award for Most Promising Actress
2000
for Venus Beauty Institute		 Succeeded by
Sylvie Testud
for Les Blessures assassines
Preceded by
Zhang Ziyi		 CFCA Award for Most Promising Performer
2001		 Succeeded by
Maggie Gyllenhaal

References

  1. ^ IMDB Biography, IMDB, http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0851582/bio, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  2. ^ A very big engagement, Times Online, http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article715245.ece, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  3. ^ Montlucon's Jules Ferry college alumnus, http://coll-ferry-montlucon.planet-allier.com/, http://coll-ferry-montlucon.planet-allier.com/celebres.html, retrieved on 2008-08-28 
  4. ^ Birth certificate, Les Gens du Cinema, http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=tautou&nom_acteur=TAUTOU%20Audrey&ident=55466&debut=0&record=0, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  5. ^ Transcript of interview from French edition of Elle, Elle, French edition issue 3068, October 2004, http://web.archive.org/web/20060515141812/http://fandeaudreytautou.free.fr/interview_elle_uldf.php, retrieved on 2008-08-28 
  6. ^ Vanderschelden, Isabelle (2006). Amélie ; Le Fabuleux Destin D' Amélie Poulain. I. B. Tauris. pp. 21. ISBN 9781845113759. 
  7. ^ Audrey Tautou, Encyclopædia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1020875/Audrey-Tautou, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  8. ^ , AskMen.com, http://www.askmen.com/celebs/women/actress_200/233_audrey_tautou.html, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  9. ^ Audrey Tautou, Variety, http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/44857/Audrey+Tautou.html?dataSet=1/, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  10. ^ Academy Invites 127 to Membership
  11. ^ The Star Online eCentral: From Amelie to Sophie
  12. ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a126980/warner-bros-backs-chanel-biopic.html?imdb
  13. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851582/
  14. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1035736/
  15. ^ Audrey Tautou: The New Coco Chanel
  16. ^ New role for Audrey Tautou, Daily Telegraph, 2008-05-11, http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23676294-5006013,00.html, retrieved on 2008-05-21 
  17. ^ Snead, Elizabeth (2008-05-05), Is it a bird or a plane? Sarah Jessica Parker won't save the Costume Gala?, Los Angeles Times, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/05/tonights-metrop.html, retrieved on 2008-05-21 
  18. ^ Audrey Tautou new face of Chanel, China Daily, 2008-05-16, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2008-05/16/content_6690516.htm, retrieved on 2008-05-21 
  19. ^ An Interview With Audrey Tautou
  20. ^ Audrey Tautou News | Tautou dismisses Da Vinci controversy

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