Editing Sophie Marceau (section)

== Film career ==
In February 1980, Marceau and her mother came across a model agency looking for teenagers. Marceau had photos taken at the agency, but did not think anything would come of it. At the same time, Françoise Menidrey, the casting director for [[Claude Pinoteau]]'s ''[[La Boum]]'' (1980), asked modeling agencies to recommend a new teenager for the project. After viewing the rushes, Alain Poiré, the director of the [[Gaumont Film Company]], signed Marceau to a long-term contract. ''La Boum'' was a hit film, with 4,378,500 tickets sold in France.<ref name="imdbboxoffice">{{cite web|title=Box office for The Party|publisher=IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082100/business|access-date=10 November 2012}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=November 2022}} In 1981, Marceau made her singing debut with French singer François Valéry on record "Dream in Blue", written by Pierre Delanoë.<ref name="discogs">{{cite web|title=François Valéry et Sophie Marceau–Dream in Blue|work=Discogs|date=30 October 1981|url=http://www.discogs.com/Fran%C3%A7ois-Val%C3%A9ry-Et-Sophie-Marceau-Dream-In-Blue/release/3798769|access-date=10 November 2012}}</ref> She rejected the main role in a soon-to-be controversial film, ''[[Beau-père]]'', in which she would have played as a teenage girl who seduces her step-father for a sexual relationship.<ref>{{cite news|date=5 March 1983|title=Les bonheurs de Sophie Marceau: deux films, 15 millions d'admirateurs et la gloire à 16 ans|newspaper=[[France-Soir]]|number=11990}}</ref> The role was eventually played by [[Ariel Besse]]. In 1982, at age 16, Marceau bought back her contract with Gaumont for one million [[French francs]].<ref name="pallister">{{cite book|author=Janis L. Pallister|author2=Ruth A. Hottell|title=Francophone Women Film Directors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P15tyiOSRz0C|year=2005|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|isbn=978-0-8386-4046-3|page=262}}</ref> She borrowed most of the money.

After starring in the sequel film ''[[La Boum 2]]'' (1982), Marceau focused on more dramatic roles, including the historical drama ''[[Fort Saganne]]'' in 1984 with [[Gérard Depardieu]] and [[Catherine Deneuve]], ''Joyeuses Pâques'' (''[[Happy Easter]]'') in 1984, ''[[L'amour braque]]'' and ''[[Police (1985 film)|Police]]'' in 1985, and ''[[Descente aux enfers]]'' (''Descent into Hell'') in 1986. In 1988, she starred in ''[[L'Étudiante (film)|L'Étudiante]]'' (''The Student'') and the historical adventure film ''[[Chouans!]]''. That year, Marceau was named Best Romantic Actress at the International Festival of Romantic Movies for her role in ''Chouans!''<ref name="netglimpse">{{cite web|title=Sophie Marceau|work=Net Glimpse|url=http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/sophie_marceau/index.shtml|access-date=1 December 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117144318/http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/sophie_marceau/index.shtml|archive-date=17 November 2007}}</ref>

[[File:Sophie Marceau Molières 1993.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Marceau, at the [[Molière Award]]s, 1993]]
In 1989, Marceau starred in ''[[My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days]]'', which was directed by her long-time partner [[Andrzej Zulawski]]. In 1990, she starred in ''[[Pacific Palisades (film)|Pacific Palisades]]'' and ''La note bleue'', her third film directed by her companion. In 1991, she ventured into the theater in ''[[Eurydice (Anouilh play)|Eurydice]]'', which earned Marceau the [[Moliere Award]] for Best Female Newcomer.<ref name="netglimpse" /> Throughout the 1990s, Marceau began making less-dramatic films, such as the comedy ''[[Fanfan]]'' in 1993 and ''[[Revenge of the Musketeers (1994 film)|Revenge of the Musketeers]]'' (''La fille de d'Artagnan'') in 1994—both popular in Europe and abroad. That year, she returned to the theatre as Eliza Doolittle in ''Pygmalion''.<ref name="netglimpse" />

Marceau achieved international recognition in 1995 playing the role of [[Isabella of France|Princess Isabelle]] in [[Mel Gibson]]'s ''[[Braveheart]]''. That year, she was part of an ensemble of international actors in the French film ''[[Beyond the Clouds (1995 film)|Beyond the Clouds]]'', directed by [[Michelangelo Antonioni]] and [[Wim Wenders]]. In 1997, she continued her string of successful films with William Nicholson's ''[[Firelight]]'', filmed in England, Véra Belmont's ''[[Marquise (film)|Marquise]]'', filmed in France, and Bernard Rose's ''[[Anna Karenina (1997 film)|Anna Karenina]]'', filmed in Russia. In 1999, she played Hippolyta in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999 film)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', and the villainous [[Bond girl]] [[Elektra King]] in ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]''. In 2000, Marceau teamed up again with her then-partner [[Andrzej Zulawski]] to film ''[[Fidelity (2000 film)|Fidelity]]'', playing the role of a talented photographer who takes a job at a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher.<ref name="netglimpse" />

[[File:Sophie Marceau avp 2013.jpg|thumb|Marceau at the premiere of ''Arrêtez-moi'', 2013]]
Since the early 2000s, Marceau has continued to appear in a wide variety of roles, mainly in French films, playing a widowed nurse in ''[[Nelly (2004 film)|Nelly]]'' (''À ce soir'') in 2004, an undercover police agent in ''[[Anthony Zimmer]]'' in 2005, and the troubled daughter of a murdered film star in ''[[Trivial (film)|Trivial]]'' in 2007. In 2008, Marceau played a member of the French Resistance movement in ''[[Female Agents]]'', and a struggling single mother in ''[[LOL (Laughing Out Loud)]]''. In 2009, she teamed up with [[Monica Bellucci]] in ''[[Don't Look Back (2009 film)|Don't Look Back]]'' about the mysterious connection between two women who have never met. In 2010, Marceau played a successful business executive forced to confront her unhappy childhood in ''[[With Love... from the Age of Reason]]'' (''L'âge de raison'').{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

In 2012, Marceau played a 40-something career woman who falls in love with a young jazz musician in ''[[Happiness Never Comes Alone]]''. In 2013, she appeared in ''[[Arrêtez-moi]]'' (''Arrest Me'') as a woman who shows up at a police station and confesses to the murder of her abusive husband several years earlier.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2290129/|title=Arrêtez-moi (2013) ⭐ 5.6 &#124; Drama, Mystery, Thriller|publisher=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>

She was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the [[2015 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="Main-Jury-Cannes">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/61318.html|title=The Jury of the 68th Cannes Film Festival|access-date=21 April 2015|work=Cannes Film Festival}}</ref><ref name="MainJury">{{cite web|url=http://www.thewrap.com/jake-gyllenhaal-sienna-miller-and-guillermo-del-toro-join-cannes-film-festival-jury/|title=Jake Gyllenhaal, Sienna Miller and Guillermo del Toro Join Cannes Film Festival Jury|access-date=21 April 2015|work=The Wrap|date=21 April 2015}}</ref>