Emmanuelle Béart
Béart in 2000
Born	Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson (1963-08-14) 14 August 1963 (age 48) Gassin, France
Other names	Emmanuelle Est
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1972–present
Spouse	Daniel Auteuil (m. 1993–1998) «start: (1993)–end+1: (1999)»"Marriage: Daniel Auteuil to Emmanuelle Béart" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Emmanuelle_B%C3%A9art) Michaël Cohen (m. 2008) «start: (2008)»"Marriage: Michaël Cohen to Emmanuelle Béart" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Emmanuelle_B%C3%A9art)

Emmanuelle Béart (born 14 August 1963^[1]) is a French film actress, who has appeared in over 50 film and television productions since 1972. Béart won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Manon des Sources (1986). She has been nominated a further seven times for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress.

Early life[link]

Béart was born Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson in St. Tropez (some sources say Gassin), on the French Riviera, the daughter of Geneviève Galéa, a former model, and Guy Béart, a singer and poet.^[2] Béart's mother is of Greek,^[3] Maltese,^[4] and Croatian descent,^[5][6] Her father was born in Egypt to an originally Jewish family^{[7] [8][9]} who were of Spanish,^[10] Swiss, and Russian ancestry.^[11]

In her late teens she spent her summer vacation with the English speaking family of a close friend of her father in Montreal. At the end of the summer the family invited her to stay with them and complete her baccalauréat at Collège international Marie de France.^[12]

Career[link]

Béart obtained an acting role in the 1976 film Tomorrow's Children. In her teens she appeared in bit parts in television, then went to Montreal, Canada to live with the family of a close friend of her fathers and complete her baccalauréat at Collège international Marie de France. Upon graduating 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, in the film Manon des Sources. For her performance, she won the 1987 César Award for "Best Supporting Actress". She also won a "Best Actress" award at the Moscow International Film Festival for her starring role in the 1995 film, A French Woman.

In addition to her award for Best Supporting Actress, she has also been nominated for 7 César Awards for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress in the following performances:

Nomination for César Award for Most Promising Actress

• 1985 – A Strange Passion
• 1986 – Love on the Quiet

Nomination for César Award for Best Actress

• 1990 – Les Enfants du désordre (Children of Chaos)
• 1992 – La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker)
• 1993 – Un cœur en hiver (A Heart in Winter)
• 1996 – Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (Nelly and Mr Arnaud)
• 2001 – Les Destinées Sentimentales (Sentimental Destinies)

In May 2003, Béart, aged 39, appeared nude with a younger man for the French magazine Elle^[13] and as of 2007, it is still the magazine's biggest-selling issue ever.

Personal life[link]

In the mid-1980s, she 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 but divorced in 1998. Béart was also romantically linked to music producer David Moreau (since c. 1995 after she separated from Auteuil)^[12][14] and to film producer Vincent Meyer for two years until his suicide in May 2003.^[13] She has two children: Nelly Auteuil (born c. 1993), and Johan Moreau (born c. 1996).^[12] She married actor Michaël Cohen on 13 August 2008.^[14]

In addition to her screen work, Béart is also 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 illegal immigrants), she was removed after her group’s occupation of a Paris 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.

Filmography[link]

La Course du lièvre à travers les champs (1972) (uncredited) Tomorrow's Children (1976) First Desires (1983) A Strange Passion (1984) Love on the Quiet (1985) Manon des Sources (1986) Date with an Angel (1987) Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator (1988) Children of Chaos (1989) The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (1990) La Belle Noiseuse (1991) Le bateau de Lu (1991) A Heart in Winter (1992) La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento (1992) Rupture(s) (1993) L'Enfer (1994) (by Claude Chabrol, from a screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot) Nelly and Mr. Arnaud (1995) A French Woman (1995) Le dernier chaperon rouge (1996) Mission: Impossible (1996) Stolen Life (1998) Don Juan (1998) In Search of Lost Time (1999) Elephant juice (1999)

Emmanuelle Béart in 2004 Season's Beatings (1999) Les Destinées (2000) Fortune Tellers and Misfortune (2001) La Répétition (2001) 8 Women (2002) Searching for Debra Winger (2002) The Story of Marie and Julien (2003) Nathalie... (2003) Strayed (2003) A boire (2004) Un fil à la patte (2005) D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires (2005) L'Enfer (2005) (by Danis Tanović, from a screenplay by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz) A Crime (2005) The Witnesses (2007) Disco (2008) Mes Stars et moi (2008) Vinyan (2008) Nous trois (2010) Ça commence par la fin (2010) Bye Bye Blondie (2010) Ma compagne de nuit (2010) Les Amours Perdues (2011)

Television[link]

• 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)

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Gaffez, Fabien (10 March 2005). Emmanuelle Béart. Nouveau Monde Editions. ISBN 978-2-84736-090-5. 

External links[link]

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• Official website