French actress Audrey Tautou was born in Beaumont on August 9, 1976. While studying at the Lyceum, she attended theater classes, played the piano and oboe. After graduation, she enters the Institute of Philology. At the same time, she is engaged in two-week acting courses and after graduation decides to devote her life to cinema. Audrey made her film debut in the 1996 television series Julie Lescaux. And three years later, after several more secondary roles, the aspiring actress starred in romantic
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French actress Audrey Tautou was born in Beaumont on August 9, 1976. While studying at the Lyceum, she attended theater classes, played the piano and oboe.
After graduation, she enters the Institute of Philology. At the same time, she is engaged in two-week acting courses and after graduation decides to devote her life to cinema.
Audrey made her film debut in the 1996 television series Julie Lescaux. And three years later, after several more secondary roles, the aspiring actress starred in
romantic comedy "Venus Beauty Salon" She received the Cesar Award for this role as the most promising actress. After this initial success, Audrey begins to receive offers from famous French directors.
The next serious step on the star path of Audrey Totu was the role of Amélie Poulin in the film directed by Jean-Pierre Genet.
"Amelie" . This picture, which became one of the main events of European cinema in 2001, brought Audrey nominations for the Cesar and Golden Globe Awards, as well as a number of other prestigious awards.
In 2004, the actress again starred at the director Jean-Pierre Jeunet - the main role in the drama "The Long Engagement" not only confirms the star status of the actress herself, but also brings the recognition of the audience to her partner Gaspar Houlier.
Among the other most famous European films with the participation of Audrey Totu, you can also note the films “Spanish” in 2002 and its sequel “Pretty Woman” in 2005, the film “Fatal Beauty” by Pierre Salvadori and the melodrama “Just Together” based on the novel by Anna Gavalda.
In 2006, Audrey came to her world success - for the role of Sophie Nevo in the film adaptation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, where her partner was actor Tom Hanks.
In 2009, Totu plays a fashion legend in the eponymous film "Coco Chanel" and becomes the "face" of the fragrance Chanel 5, replacing actress Nicole Kidman.
As for the personal life of the actress, she tries not to disclose her romantic hobbies, prefers not to mention it in interviews and denies all sorts of gossip.
It is only known that she had a romantic relationship with the actor and director Mathieu Kassowitz, a partner in the film “Amelie”, about her 3-year affair with the American poet Lance Mazmanian and about her relationship with the French musician M.