Marion Cotillard is your favorite star, favorite star. The beautiful, exceptionally talented entertainer, who has received awards worldwide including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award and a Lumières Award, is best known for roles in films such as Life Is Pink (2007), The Dark One Knight Rises (2012), Macbeth (2015) and Assassin’s Creed (2016).
The actress and singer is also an environmentalist and philanthropist. She is a spokesperson for Greenpeace and has been active in protests against polluting causes.
Marion Cotillard is the first child of actor, director and teacher, Jean-Claude Cotillard and actress Niseema Theillaud. She was born in Paris on September 30, 1975 and grew up in the Centre-Val de Loire region, in the commune of Orleans.
As a child, due to influences from both, Cotillard, who had taken a break from working in front of and behind the camera, was interested in becoming an entertainer. She began acting in her father’s plays before working in theaters and other television shows in her teens.
Around the age of 17, the young actress appeared in her first English-language role on the series Highlanders. By the time she was 20, she had small roles in films such as The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed (1994) and My Sex Life…or How I Had a Fight (1996).
Cotillard’s first leading role was in the film Chloé, after which she was promoted to a career as a braggart in the Taxi series. For her role in The First Taxi (1998), Cotillard was nominated for a Cesar Award for Most Promising Actress. She went on to act in the romantic drama Furia (1999) and then in the Swiss war film Krieg im Hochland (1999), which won her Best Actress award at the Autrans Film Festival.In 2003, after appearing in more than 13 French films, Marion Cotillard decided to try her hand at Hollywood. Her first role Stateside was in the film Big Fish (2003) with actors Helena Bonham Carter and Ewan McGregor. Before her second Hollywood production, Cotillard acted in the French films. Love Me If You Dare (2003), A Very Long Engagement (2004), for which she won the Cesar Best Supporting Actress Award, and Innocence (2004), before appearing opposite Forrest Whitaker in the religious drama Maria (2005).
However, her career role came from her portrayal of singer Edith Piaf in the biopic Life Is Pink (2007). The film was a box office success, earning her critical acclaim and numerous awards while the rest became history.
Despite the widespread misconception about MarionCotillard’s marital status, the patron of the Maud Fontenoy Foundation, is not married to her longtime partner and father of her two children. Actor, director and screenwriter Guillaume Canet. Cotillard and Canet began seeing each other exclusively in October 2007, although they have known each other for more than a decade. They were said to have been good friends, and because they were in separate relationships at the time, they never got around to dating. During this “friendship” period, the couple collaborated in the film Love Me If You Dare (2003).
In the early stages of their relationship, despite all the speculation in the French media about their relationship, the couple notoriously kept things about them a secret. They didn’t want to appear on the red carpet together, nor did they want to answer questions about their personal lives. They did so for two years until they starred in The Last Flight (2009) and then appeared together at the Cannes Film Festival that same year.
As of 2010, Cotillard wore a diamond ring on her left hand, leading to speculation that the couple had become engaged. However, the couple reiterated that they were not engaged or even planning to get married, adding that the ring was nothing more than a gift/kind gesture from Canet. On May 19, 2011, the couple welcomed their first child, a son named Marcel. Their second child, a daughter named Louise, was born sometime in 2017.
Birth name: Marion Cotillard
Date of Birth: September 30, 1975
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Profession(s): Actress, singer, environmentalist
Zodiac sign: Libra
Body Type: Slim
Measurements: 91.5-61-86 cm (36-24-34 inches)
Height: 5 feet 7 inches (169 cm)
Weight: 57kg
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye color: green
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