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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 Unbearable Lightness of Being. Her performance brought much praise and the offer of leading roles including in Three Colors: Blue, part one of Krzysztof Kieślowski's acclaimed Three Colors trilogy, for which she won the 1993 Cesar Award for best actress. In addition, she has been nominated for the Cesar Award for Best Actress a further five times during her career.

In 1996 her role as Hana, a Canadian nurse tending to a wounded stranger during World War II, in the blockbuster film The English Patient, brought her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in an upset over expected winner Lauren Bacall whose seniority the Academy chose to overlook. Onstage, Binoche said "I don't have a speech prepared. I thought Lauren would get it."

In 2000, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the film Chocolat, based on the novel by Joanne Harris (the award was won by Julia Roberts for her role in Erin Brockovich).

In addition to her numerous motion picture roles, Binoche has starred on Broadway. She is the highest-paid film actress in the history of France.

Binoche has two children, Raphael (with Andre Halle) and Hanna (with French actor Benoit Magimel).

In April 2006 she travelled to Iran at the invitation of the prominent Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami to discuss a possible movie project.

Awards

Won

• 1992 — European Movie Award — Best Actress — Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
• 1993 — Berlin International Film Festival — Berlinale Camera
• 1993 — Venice Film Festival — Best Actress — Three Colors: Blue
• 1994 — Cesar Award — Best Actress — Three Colors: Blue
• 1996 — National Board of Review — Best Supporting Actress — The English Patient
• 1997 — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress — The English Patient
• 1997 — Berlin International Film Festival — Best Actress — The English Patient
• 1997 — British Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress — The English Patient
• 1997 — European Movie Award — Best Actress — The English Patient

Nominations

• 1993 — Cesar Award — Best Actress — Damage
• 1994 — Golden Globe Award — Best Actress — Three Colors: Blue
• 1996 — Cesar Award — Best Actress — Le Hussard sur le toit — (The Horseman on the Roof)
• 1997 — Golden Globe Award — Best Supporting Actress — The English Patient
• 1997 — Screen Actors Guild Award — Best Supporting Actress — The English Patient
• 2000 — Academy Award for Best Actress — Chocolat
• 2001 — British Academy Award — Best Actress — Chocolat
• 2001 — Cesar Award — Best Actress — Widow Of Saint-Pierre
• 2001 — Golden Globe Award — Best Actress — Chocolat
• 2001 — Screen Actors Guild Award — Best Actress — Chocolat
• 2001 — Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Cast — Chocolat

Filmography

• Liberty Belle (1982)
• Fort bloque (1983)
• Dorothée, danseuse de corde (1983)
• The Chicks (1984)
• Hail Mary (1985)
• Family Life (1985)
• Adieu blaireau (1985)
• Rendez-vous (1985)
• Le Meilleur de la vie (1985)
• Mon beau-frère a tué ma sœur (1985)
• Bad Blood (1986)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
• Un tour de manège (1989)
• The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
• Women & Men 2 (1991)
• Wuthering Heights (1992)
• Damage (Fatale) (1993)
• Three Colors: Blue (1993)
• The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
• A Couch in New York (1996)
• The English Patient (1996)
• Children of the Century (1999)
• Éloge de l'amour (1999)
• Alice and Martin (2000)
• Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
• Code Unknown (2000)
• Chocolat (2000)
• Jet Lag (2002)
• In my Country (2004)
• Caché (2005)
• Bee Season (2005)
• Breaking and Entering (2006)
• Quelques jours en septembre (2006)

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