Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau (born November 17, 1966) is a popular French actress.
Early life
Sophie Marceau was born on November 17, 1966, in Paris, France. Her birth name was Sophie Daniele Sylvie Maupu. She grew up with her father, who was a truck driver, in the Parisian suburbs and was always far removed from the big movie studios of France.
Career
Marceau started her career at age 14 when Claude Pinoteau cast her in the starring role of the teenager movie La Boum (1980).
Two years later, she appeared in the sequel La Boum 2. In 1983, she was honoured with a Cesar Award (France’s equivalent of an Oscar) for “Most Promising Actress”.
At age 18, she appeared in Fort Saganne (1984), in which her co-stars were Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve. During the same year she acted with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Joyeuses Paques (1984), based on the play by Jean Poiret.
She also appeared in films directed by director Andrzej Zulawski: “L’Amour braque” (1985), “Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours” (1989), “La Note bleue” (1991), and “Fidelite” (2000).
Marceau played the part of Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson’s historical epic Braveheart (1995).
Following this, she appeared in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999), and as Bond girl/villain Elektra King in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999).
Marceau wrote a semi-autobiographical novel Telling Lies (2001), and tried directing as well. Making her directorial debut in a feature film, Marceau was awarded Best Director by the jury of the 2002 Montreal World Film Festival for her film Speak to Me of Love starring Judith Godreche. Prior to this, in 1995, she had made a nine-minute short film, L’Aube a l’envers, which also starred Godreche.
Personal life
Marceau married the producer Andrzej Zulawski, who is 26 years her senior. Their son Vincent was born in June 1995. In 2001, Marceau separated from Zulawski and became involved with producer Jim Lemley and later gave birth to her second child, Juliette, born in London in 2002. In 2007, various French newspapers and magazines reported that Sophie is dating Christopher Lambert with whom she acts in La disparue de Deauville.
Filmography
Actress
La Boum (also known as The Party) (1980)
La Boum 2 (1982)
Fort Saganne (1984)
Joyeuses Paques (also known as Happy Easter) (1984)
L’Amour braque (1985)
Le Flics (also known as Police) (1985)
Descente aux enfers (Descent Into Hell) (1986)
L’etudiante (also known as The Student) (1988)
Chouans ! (1988)
Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours (1989)
Pacific Palisades (1990)
Pour Sacha (1991)
La Note bleue (1991)
Fanfan (also known as Fanfan & Alexandre) (1993)
La Fille de d’Artagnan (The Daughter of D’Artagnan) (1994)
Braveheart (1995)
Al di la delle nuvole (1995)
Anna Karenina (1997) as Anna Karenina
Marquise (1997, by Vera Belmont)
Firelight (1997, by William Nicholson)
Lost & Found (1999)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999) as Hippolyta
The World Is Not Enough (1999) as Elektra King
Fidelite (Fidelity) (2000)
Belphegor - Le fantome du Louvre (also known as Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre) (2001)
Alex & Emma (2003)
Je reste ! (2003, by Diane Kurys)
Les clefs de bagnole (also known as The Car Keys) (2003)
A ce soir (2004)
Anthony Zimmer (2005)
La disparue de Deauville (2007)
Les Femmes de l’ombre (2007, by Jean-Paul Salome)
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