
Emmanuelle Béart
Born: 1963-08-14
Place of Birth: Gassin, Var, France
Biography
Emmanuelle Béart (born 14 August 1963) is a French 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). Emmanuelle Béart was born 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. Her Egyptian-born father's family was of Sephardic Jewish descent, who sought refuge in Lebanon during his childhood. 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. 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. 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. 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: 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. ... Source: Article "Emmanuelle Béart" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For

Mission: Impossible

Beyond the Known World

Strayed

My Mistress

First Desires

Torment

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

Replay

Sentimental Destinies

Manon of the Spring

La répétition ou L'amour puni

Season's Beatings

A Crime

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Nathalie...

Disco

French Beauty

À boire

Hell

Elephant Juice

Don Juan

Pirate TV

Vinyan

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

The Passengers of the Night

Date with an Angel

Just The Three of Us

The Witnesses

La Belle Noiseuse

Margaux Hartmann

Stolen Life

Fortune Tellers and Misfortune

The Story of Marie and Julien

La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento

Terre, Les Forces du Vivant

Overnight

A Heart in Winter

8 Women

Time Regained

Against Oblivion

Bye Bye Blondie

Such a Resounding Silence

I Don't Kiss

D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers

Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator

Love on the Quiet

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

L'Âge d'or de la pub

The Great Restaurant II

Searching for Debra Winger

And Hope to Die

My Stars

Tomorrow's Children

The Voyage of Captain Fracassa

Children of Chaos

Architecture

Jan Kounen - Intégrale courts métrages

Electra, for Instance

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

Amélia Starlight

The Art of Breaking Up

A French Woman

Family Hero

The Last Little Red Riding Hood

Stereo Girls

Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex

Wonders in the Suburbs

It Begins with the End

Ma compagne de nuit

Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté

Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés

The Desert of Love

A Strange Passion

Raison perdue
