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Audrey Tautou Biography |
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| Audrey Tautou born August 9, 1978 is a French film actress, best known to worldwide audiences as the title character in the award-winning French film Amélie (2001, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) and as Sophie Neveu in The Da Vinci Code (2006). Tautou was born in Beaumont in the Puy-de-Dôme department of Auvergne, and was raised in Montluçon in the nearby Allier department. Audrey showed an interest for comedy at an early age and started her acting lessons at the Cours Florent. In 1998, she participated in a Star Search-like competition sponsored by Canal+ called "Jeunes Premiers" and won Best Young Actress at the 9th Béziers Festival of Young Actors. Then, she came to the attention of Tonie Marshall, who gave her a role in the César-winning Venus Beauty Institute. In 2000, she won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as her country's most promising young film actress. in 2001 Tautou rose to international fame for her performance as the eccentric Amélie in the romantic French comedy Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. In June 2004 she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). She accepted the invitation and was still a member as of September 1, 2006. In 2005 Tautou worked in her first full Hollywood production, opposite Tom Hanks, in the film version of Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and released in May 2006. She has said that Meryl Streep, Paul Newman, Juliette Lewis, Jodie Foster and Julianne Moore are her acting idols. Having starred in her first major Hollywood film, the cinema adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, Tautou nevertheless has stated in interview that she still considers France her base, and has expressed plans to pursue a career predominantly there rather than crossing over to the United States. As she told Stevie Wong of The Straits Times, "I am, at the end of the day, a French actress. I am not saying I will never shoot an English-language movie again, but my home, my community, my career is rooted in France. I would never move to Los Angeles." She will star with Guillaume Canet in Claude Berri's French-language Ensemble, c'est tout in 2007. | |||||||||||||
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