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    • Emmanuelle Beart

    Emmanuelle Béart (born 14 August 1963[1]) is a French film actress.

    Biography

    Career

    Béart obtained an acting role in the 1976 film Tomorrow’s Children. In her teens she appeared in bit parts in television then went to Montreal, Canada to work as a nanny before returning to France the following year to attend drama school in Paris. A short time later she was cast in her first adult role in a film, and in 1986 she achieved fame with her role opposite Yves Montand, in the film Manon des Sources. For her performance, she won the 1987 César Award for “Best Supporting Actress”. She also won a “Best Actress” award at the Moscow International Film Festival for her starring role in the 1995 film, A French Woman.

    In addition to her award for Best Supporting Actress, she has also been nominated for 6 César Awards for Best Actress in the following performances:

    • 1985 — A Strange Passion
    • 1986 — Love on the Quiet
    • 1990 — Children of Chaos
    • 1992 — The Beautiful Troublemaker
    • 1993 — A Heart in Winter
    • 1996 — Nelly and Mr. Arnaud
    • 2001 — Les Destinées

    In 2003, Béart, aged 40, appeared nude on the front cover of French magazine Elle and as of 2007, it is still the magazine’s biggest-selling issue ever.

    Personal life

    Béart was born Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson in St. Tropez, on the French Riviera, the daughter of Geneviève Galéa, a homemaker and former model, and Guy Béart, a singer and poet. Beart’s mother is of Greek, Maltese, and Croatian descent, and her father is a Jewish Egyptian of Spanish, Swiss, and Russian ancestry. After a ten-year relationship with Daniel Auteuil (her co-star in Manon of the Spring, A French Woman and A Heart in Winter), she divorced him and re-married.

    In addition to her screen work, Béart is also known for her social activism. She is an ambassador for UNICEF, and has made news for her opposition to France’s anti-immigration legislation. In 1996, she made headlines when, defending the rights of the “sans-papiers” (illegal immigrants), she was removed after her group’s occupation of a Paris church.

    Filmography

    Films

    • Tomorrow’s Children (1976)
    • First Desires (1983)
    • A Strange Passion (1984)
    • Love on the Quiet (1985)
    • Manon des Sources (1986)
    • Date with an Angel (1987)
    • Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator (1988)
    • Children of Chaos (1989)
    • The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (1990)
    • La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
    • Le bateau de Lu (1991)
    • A Heart in Winter (1992)
    • La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento (1992)
    • Rupture(s) (1993)
    • L’Enfer (1994)
    • Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995)
    • A French Woman (1995)
    • Le dernier chaperon rouge (1996)
    • Mission Impossible (1996)
    • Stolen Life (1998)
    • Don Juan (1998)
    • In Search of Lost Time (1999)
    • Elephant juice (1999)
    • Season’s Beatings (1999)
    • Les Destinées (2000)
    • Fortune Tellers and Misfortune (2001)
    • Replay (2001)
    • 8 Women (2002)
    • Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
    • The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)
    • Nathalie… (2003)
    • Strayed (2003)
    • A boire (2004)
    • Un fil à la patte (2005)
    • Hell (2005)
    • A Crime (2005)
    • The Witnesses (2007)
    • Disco (2008)
    • Vinyan (2008)

    Television

    • Raison perdue (1984)
    • Zacharius (1984)
    • La femme de sa vie (1986)
    • Marie-Antoinette, reine d’un seul amour (1989)
    • D’Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires (2005)

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