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Juliette Binoche, daughter of an actress and a sculptor, was only 23 when she first attracted the attention of international film critics with The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times film critic with an international following of his books on film and TV reviews, wrote that she was "almost ethereal in her beauty and innocence". That innocence was gone by the time Binoche completed Louis Malle's Damage (1992) (aka "Fatale"). In an interview after the film was released, Binoche said: "Malle was trying direct and wanted something more sophisticated". A year later, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) was added to her film credits. After a sabbatical from film-making to become a mother in 1994, Binoche was selected as the heroine of France's most expensive ($35 million) movie ever: Hussard sur le toit, Le (1995). More recently, she has made The English Patient (1996), for which she won an Oscar for 'Best supporting actress' and Chocolat (2000).
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Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French Academy Award-winning actress. Biography Born in Paris to a movie-director father and an actress mother, at age 15 she was sent to study at a specialized arts high school, after which she attended the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris. At age 18 she obtained a small role in the small independent film Liberty Belle. While trying to build her career over the next five years, she worked as a clerk at a Paris department store and as a painter's model. She was 24 when she received her first big break with a role in Philip Kaufman's film The
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Juliette Binoche has one of the great cinema faces--a face to consider in the same breath as those of Lillian Gish, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo and James Dean. More recently it is a face that has graced Broadway in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, where Binoche's radlant smiles and guilty giances electrified an otherwise depressive study of adultery. Subsequently her smiles seemed to bathe the faux French world of the movie Chocolat in incandescent light. Imagine that confection without Binoche's merriment--the experience would taste of ash.
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As far as acting goes, Juliette Binoche has pretty much done it all. The French press even nicknamed her "La Binoche" to honor her megastar status. Aside from her plethora of French language films -- among them 1995's Le Hussard Sur le Toit (The Horseman on the Roof and 2000's La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (The Widow of Saint-Pierre) -- her stellar work in films like 2000's Chocolat and 1988's The Unbearable Lightness of Being are part of a legacy that will surely stand the test of time in the movie world.
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In 1985 Juliette Binoche secured the lead role in André Téchiné's Rendez-vous. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival that year, winning Best Director. In 1986, Binoche was nominated for her first César Award for Best Actress for the film. Binoche's next film was a role in
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THERE'S NO stopping French actress Juliette Binoche who, at 43, recently posed in her full glory for French Playboy. She won an Oscar for her role in The English Patient, but is best remembered for her romantic love scenes opposite Johnny Depp in Chocolat. She lives in Paris and is a mother of two: her son Raphael, 14, is from her relationship with professional scuba diver Andre Halle, and she had her daughter Hannah, eight, with French actor Benoit Magimel. Her latest film, the romantic comedy Dan In Real Life, with comedian Steve Carell, is out now.
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