Emmanuelle Béart

Known for ActingBorn 1963-08-14 (age 62)Gassin, Var, France

Emmanuelle Béart (born 14 August 1963) is a French actress who has appeared in over 60 film and television productions since 1972. An eight-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Manon des Sources. Her other film roles include La Belle Noiseuse (1991), A Heart in Winter (1992), Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995), Mission: Impossible (1996) and 8 Women (2002). Emmanuelle Béart was born in Gassin, on the French Riviera, the daughter of Geneviève Galéa (pseudonym of Geneviève Guillery), a former model who is of Croatian, Greek and Maltese descent, and Guy Béart, a singer and poet. Her Egyptian-born father's family was of Sephardic Jewish descent, who sought refuge in Lebanon during his childhood. She has a half-sister, Ève (born 1959), on her father's side and six half-siblings on her mother's side; Ivan, Sarah and Mikis Cerieix from her mother's relationship with Jean-Yves Cerieix and Olivier Guespin, Lison and Charlotte from her mother's relationship with Jean-Jacques Guespin. In her late teens, she spent her summer vacation in Montreal with the English-speaking family of William Sofin, a close friend of her father. At the end of the summer, the family invited her to stay with them and complete her baccalauréat at Collège International Marie de France. They remained close friends. Béart got an acting role in 1976 film Tomorrow's Children. In her teens she appeared in bit parts in television. Upon graduating from the Collège International Marie de France in Montreal, she returned to France 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, playing the avenging daughter in French hit Manon des Sources. For her performance, she won the 1987 César Award for Best Supporting Actress. In the 1987 film Date with an Angel, she starred as the Angel. In 1995, she won the Silver St. George award for Best Actress at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival for her starring role in film A French Woman. In addition to her award for Best Supporting Actress, she has also been nominated for another seven César Awards for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress. Béart received Most Promising Actress nominations for A Strange Passion and Love on the Quiet; followed by Best Actress nominations for Children of Chaos, La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker), Un cœur en hiver (A Heart in Winter), Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (Nelly and Mr Arnaud), and Les Destinées Sentimentales (Sentimental Destinies) In the 5 May 2003 issue of the French edition of Elle magazine, Béart, aged 39, appeared nude: The entire run of 550,000 copies sold out in just three days, making it the biggest-selling issue in the fashion glossy's long history. ... Source: Article "Emmanuelle Béart" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.Read more

Movies & web series

French Beauty

Spécial cinéma

Such a Resounding Silence

The Apartment

Terre, Les Forces du Vivant

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

Le Grand Échiquier

Manon of the Spring

Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land

La Belle Noiseuse

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

A Heart in Winter

The Passengers of the Night

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Mission: Impossible

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

Rupture(s)

8 Women

Lest We Forget

Torment

The Last Little Red Riding Hood

L'Âge d'or de la pub

La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento

Syndrome [E]

Date with an Angel

Champs-Elysées

Heart of the Festival

The Witnesses

Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex

The Voyage of Captain Fracassa

Searching for Debra Winger

Overnight

The Story of Marie and Julien

Time Regained

I Don't Kiss

And Hope to Die

Hell

Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator

Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

The Great Restaurant II

Season's Beatings

Strayed

La répétition ou L'amour puni

Nathalie...

Tomorrow's Children

Bye Bye Blondie

A Crime