JULIETTE BINOCHE
Name: Juliette Binoche
Born: 9 March 1964 Paris, France
Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is
an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated French film actress.
Affectionately nicknamed "La Binoche" by the French press, Binoche is well known
worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The English
Patient (1996) and Chocolat (2000) as well as internationally successful
arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue (1993) and Caché (2005).
Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor,
and sculptor, and Monique Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress. Binoche's
mother is of Polish descent, and her maternal grandparents were imprisoned at
Auschwitz because they were intellectuals. Binoche also has French,
Flemish, Brazilian and Moroccan ancestry. Her parents divorced when she
was four and Binoche, with her sister Marion, was sent to a boarding school.
Binoche began acting in amateur stage productions, and at 17 directed and
starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play, Exit the King. The
next year, she studied acting at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of
Paris (CNSAD). She found an agent through a friend and joined a theatre troupe
in which she toured France, Belgium and Switzerland under the pseudonym of "Juliette
Adrienne".
After quiting the CNSAD, she began acting lessons with famed coach Vera Gregh.
Following in her mother's footsteps, she became a stage actress, occasionally
taking small parts in French feature films. Her first screen role was a small
part in the 1983 television film Dorothée, danseuse de corde by Jacques Fensten,
which was followed by a similarly small role in the provincial television film
Fort bloque by Pierrick Guinnard. After Binoche secured her first big screen
appearance with a small supporting role in Pascal Kané's Algeria-themed Liberty
Belle, she decided to pursue a career in cinema.
Name: Juliette Binoche
Born: 9 March 1964 Paris, France
Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is
an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated French film actress.
Affectionately nicknamed "La Binoche" by the French press, Binoche is well known
worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The English
Patient (1996) and Chocolat (2000) as well as internationally successful
arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue (1993) and Caché (2005).
Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor,
and sculptor, and Monique Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress. Binoche's
mother is of Polish descent, and her maternal grandparents were imprisoned at
Auschwitz because they were intellectuals. Binoche also has French,
Flemish, Brazilian and Moroccan ancestry. Her parents divorced when she
was four and Binoche, with her sister Marion, was sent to a boarding school.
Binoche began acting in amateur stage productions, and at 17 directed and
starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play, Exit the King. The
next year, she studied acting at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of
Paris (CNSAD). She found an agent through a friend and joined a theatre troupe
in which she toured France, Belgium and Switzerland under the pseudonym of "Juliette
Adrienne".
After quiting the CNSAD, she began acting lessons with famed coach Vera Gregh.
Following in her mother's footsteps, she became a stage actress, occasionally
taking small parts in French feature films. Her first screen role was a small
part in the 1983 television film Dorothée, danseuse de corde by Jacques Fensten,
which was followed by a similarly small role in the provincial television film
Fort bloque by Pierrick Guinnard. After Binoche secured her first big screen
appearance with a small supporting role in Pascal Kané's Algeria-themed Liberty
Belle, she decided to pursue a career in cinema.