Monday 30 September 2013

Marion Cotillard is an ecologist

If she had not been an actress, she would have liked to become a singer.
She's an ecologist.
Had to learn how to sing in one month to play Marie in Pretty Things (2001).
Best friends are Cécile Cassel, Élodie Navarre and Mélanie Laurent.
Spokesperson for Greenpeace. Is also one of several actors, singers, and designers involved in "Dessins pour le climat," an album project originated by Greenpeace and Glénat, available for sale beginning April 2005 (all proceeds to go to Greenpeace).
French citizen.
Co-wrote and performed the song "La Fille De Joie" for her film Pretty Things (2001). Also performed the song "La Conne" for this film.
Has two younger brothers: Guillaume and Quentin, they are identical twins (born on 6 November 1977).
Born to Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor and teacher, and his wife Niseema Theillaud, also actress and drama teacher.
Is a member of Greenpeace.
Moved to Paris at the age of 16.
Cousin of Laurent Cotillard.
Grew up in Orléans.
Being a huge fan of Canadian singer Hawksley Workman, she starred in two of his clips.
Companion of her Love Me If You Dare (2003) co-star Guillaume Canet since 2007.
Having won the Best Actress Oscar for La Vie en Rose (2007) on 24 February 2008, she has become the second French actress to do so. The other one is Simone Signoret for Room at the Top (1959). Claudette Colbert, who won in 1934 for It Happened One Night (1934), was French-born, but raised in the U.S.
Her brother Quentin works as a sculptor, living in San Francisco, California with his Irish-American wife Elaine O'Malley Cotillard, a former Dutch National Ballet dancer and fashion designer.
Her younger brother, Guillaume Cotillard, is a screenwriter and director.
The first leading lady to receive the best actress Oscar for a non-English speaking role since Sophia Loren in 1962 for Two Women (1960).
Is the fifth actress to win the Best Actress Oscar for portraying a female singer in a biography; the first being Luise Rainer as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld (1936), followed by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl (1968), Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005).
Is one of six performers to win an Oscar playing a character that mostly spoke in a foreign language. The others are Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni and Benicio Del Toro.
One of 105 people invited to join AMPAS in 2008.
First French actress to win Best Leading Actress at BAFTA Film Awards since the integration of Best British Actress and Best Foreign Actress to one category: Best Leading Actress in 2008.
The dress she wore to the Academy Awards (where she won the Best Actress Oscar) was especially designed for her by Jean-Paul Gaultier. [2008]
Was considered for the role of Hanna Schmitz in The Reader (2008) after Nicole Kidman dropped out due to pregnancy. However the part eventually went to Kate Winslet. In 2009, Cotillard presented and gave the Academy Award for Best Actress to Kate Winslet for her performance in The Reader (2008).
First artist to win a Best Actress Oscar for a performance in the French language.
Had a relationship with french actor Stéphan Guérin-Tillié for 6 years (2000-2006) and was been romantically linked to french singer Sinclair.
When she won the Best Actress Oscar for La Vie en Rose (2007) in 2008, the statuette was presented to her by former co-star in Mary (2005/I), previous winner Forest Whitaker.
Announced that she and long-time boyfriend Guillaume Canet are expecting their first child together. [10 January 2011].
Ranked #48 in a 2011 study on the favorite celebrities of French kids aged 7 to 14, who gave her a grade of 6.21 on 10. The same study ranked her as the 53rd best-known celebrity by these kids, with 33.8% of the surveyed knowing her, either by name or by picture.
Gave birth to her son Marcel Canet, with partner Guillaume Canet, in Paris (19 May 2011).
Was six months pregnant with her son Marcel when she completed filming on Contagion (2011).
Was originally set to star in Cosmopolis (2012) but was replaced by Sarah Gadon after dropping out due to her pregnancy.
Was in consideration for the role of Ryan in Gravity (2013) but Sandra Bullock was cast instead.
Returned to work one month after giving birth to her son Marcel to begin filming The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Ranked as having one of the most "Beautiful Famous Faces" by "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World." She was ranked #2 in 2012, #7 in 2011, #12 in 2010, #15 in 2009, #4 in 2008, #3 in 2007, #8 in 2006, #17 in 2005, #35 in 2004, #20 in 2003, and #31 in 2002.
Three of her films, Chloé (1996) (TV), Love Me If You Dare (2003) and Inception (2010) have featured a song by Édith Piaf - Marion won the Academy Award for Best Actress portraying Édith in La Vie en Rose (2007).
Is one of 5 French actors to have won an Academy Award. The others in chronological order are: Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Simone Signoret for Room at the Top (1959), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996) and Jean Dujardin for The Artist (2011/I).
Is one of 12 French actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination. The others in chronological order are: Claudette Colbert, Colette Marchand, Leslie Caron, Simone Signoret, Anouk Aimée, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-Christine Barrault, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Bérénice Bejo and Emmanuelle Riva.
Is a fan of the British sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" (1992).
Ranked #39 on Askmen's list of the Top 99 Most Desirable women for 2013.
She and Tilda Swinton are the only actors to receive a Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Critics' Choice nomination for the same performance and then fail to be Oscar-nominated for it.
Her name is pronounced "mah-ree-ahn ko-tee-ar".
She is the face of french fashion house Dior since 2008 and does several ads for the Lady Dior bags.
Is a fan of the actors Kate Winslet, Will Ferrell, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill and during an interview to Jay Leno in 2012, she said she would love to work with them in a comedy.
Filmed The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Rust and Bone (2012) at the same time and few months after she gave birth to her son, Marcel.
Was originally set to star in The Past (2013) but was replaced by Bérénice Bejo after dropping out due to scheduling conflicts.
She was voted Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatrical Woman of the Year in 2013.
Is a fan of David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Radiohead and Elvis Presley.
Wrote and performed the song "Lily's Body" for the fourth episode of the Lady Dior Web Documentary (2012) with the same title.
Starred in David Bowie's music video "The Next Day" alongside Gary Oldman, her co-star in The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Shares birthday with fellow actresses Deborah Kerr, Angie Dickinson, Monica Bellucci and actor Ezra Miller.
Sings under the pseudonym Simone in Maxim Nucci's band Yodelice.
Director James Gray who directed her in The Immigrant (2013) said that Cotillard is the best actor he ever worked with.

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