Emmanuelle Béart
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Emmanuelle Béart (born 14 August 1963)<ref name="Fiche">Emmanuelle Béart. Tecinema.jeuxactu.com. Retrieved 21 April 2020.</ref> is a French film and television 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).
Early life
[edit]Béart was born Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson 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.<ref name="filmr">Template:Cite web</ref> Her Egyptian-born father's family was of Sephardic Jewish descent, who sought refuge in Lebanon during his childhood.<ref>Binder, Carol (16 September 2015). Guy Béart: «Ma mère m'a enseigné les rituels juifs que je connais très bien» Template:Webarchive. ActualitéJuive (in French). Retrieved 21 April 2020.</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref name="TCM">Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
Career
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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.<ref name="Moscow1995">Template:Cite web</ref>
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:<ref name="contactmusic">Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name=Mottram>Mottram, James (20 June 2009). Emmanuelle Béart: 'Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way round'. The Independent. Retrieved 21 April 2020.</ref>
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Personal life
[edit]In the mid-1980s, Béart began a relationship with Daniel Auteuil (her co-star in Love on the Quiet, Manon des Sources, A Heart in Winter and A French Woman). They married in 1993 and divorced in 1995. Béart was romantically linked to music producer David François Moreau (from c. 1995 after she separated from Auteuil)<ref name="TCM"/><ref name="SuperiorPics">Template:Cite web</ref> and to film producer Vincent Meyer for two years until his suicide in May 2003.<ref name="contactmusic"/> She has three children, including Nelly Auteuil (born c. 1993) and Johan Moreau (born c. 1996).<ref name="TCM"/> She married actor Michaël Cohen on 13 August 2008 at Genappe in Belgium, and in 2009 they adopted a child from Ethiopia, named Surafel. Béart and Cohen separated in 2011. In 2011, she began a romantic relationship with director and cinematographer Frédéric Chaudier.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In addition to her screen work, Béart is known for her social activism. She is an ambassador for UNICEF, and has made news for her opposition to France's anti-immigration legislation. In 1996, she made headlines when, defending the rights of the "sans-papiers" ("without papers", meaning irregular immigrants), she was removed after her group's occupation of a Parisian church.
In March 2012, Béart spoke out against plastic surgery in Le Monde, saying that she regretted having an operation on her lips in 1990 when she was 27.<ref name=plastic>Emmanuelle Béart : la chirurgie esthétique, "ça a été effroyable". Le Monde (in French). 2 March 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2020.</ref><ref name="ContactMusic-2012-LeMonde">Template:Cite news</ref>
In a 2023 documentary, she revealed that she was a victim of incest as a child but declined to reveal the identity of the abuser, only stating that it was not her father.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Selected filmography
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Film
[edit]Television
[edit]- Le grand Poucet (1980)
- Zacharius (1984)
- Raison perdue (1984)
- La femme de sa vie (1986)
- Et demain viendra le jour (1986)
- Les jupons de la révolution (1 episode, 1989)
- D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires (2005)
Awards and nominations
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- People from Var (department)
- Actresses from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- European Film Award for Best Actress winners
- French film actresses
- French television actresses
- 20th-century French Sephardi Jews
- Jewish French actresses
- French people of Croatian descent
- French people of Maltese descent
- French people of Greek descent
- French people of Egyptian-Jewish descent
- Nannies
- Best Supporting Actress César Award winners
- David di Donatello winners
- 20th-century French actresses
- 21st-century French actresses
- French stage actresses
- Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- French domestic workers
- 20th-century Mizrahi Jews