Audrey Tautou

Audrey Justine Tautou is an actress of French cinema, starring in the films Amelie, Coco do Chanel, The Da Vinci Code. Audrey was born on August 9, 1976 in the French town of Beaumont in the family of dentist Bernard Tautou and teacher, member of the Association for the Fight against Illiteracy Evelyn Tautou. In addition to Audrey, the family also raised a younger brother and sister.

Parents treated their children with love and gave them affectionate nicknames. At the suggestion of her father, Audrey was called a "drop" or "deer" in the family circle for her large eyes and fragile figure (Audrey's height is 160 cm, weight - 47 kg). The girl studied zoology from an early age and planned to go to study as a primatologist. But her hobby for monkeys did not prevent Audrey from graduating from a music school in addition to the lyceum, in the class of piano and oboe. During her school years, the girl also attended a theater club.

Having moved to Paris at the age of 17, Audrey studied at the Cours-Florent School of Acting and entered the Philological Faculty of the Sorbonne. Then she finally decided to become an actress. The girl got a job as a secretary and went to auditions every day.

Audrey Tautou's acting debut took place in the mid-90s, when the aspiring actress got a role in the first television movie "Target Heart", after which she starred in a number of TV series and short films: "True, this is a bad flaw", "Cordier - law enforcement officers", " Old Outpost "," Baby Boom "," Casting: Well, disgusting. " The girl mostly appeared in episodes, but in 1998 she got the role of Tracy in the detective series "Julie Lescaut" on the TF1 TV channel, which has been running for 23 seasons since 1992.

In 1998, the girl was cast in the feature film Venus Beauty Salon, which actress Tony Marshall was preparing to shoot. Audrey Tautha, who was late, was almost sent back, but the girl burst into tears in front of the director so sincerely that she got a chance to audition. After the first take, the girl was approved for the role of Marie. The romantic comedy has brought the creators of several film awards, and Audrey Tautou won the first Cesar award in the category "Best Emerging Actress".

In 1999, the premiere of the drama "Bad Girls" with Audrey Tautou took place on the cinema screens. The girl played the heroine Anna-Sophie, who dreams of revenge on her former lover and finds two friends who help her to fulfill her plan. In the same year, the short film "Sad to Die" was released, where the aspiring actress got the role of the girl Karo.

After a series of films ("Libertine", "Butterfly Wings", "Marry Me", "Marry Me") Thoth gets the main role in the film "Amelie", which changed the creative biography of the actress. The script for the film of the same name about the unusual girl Amelie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet was originally created for the English actress Emily Watson, who has already appeared in Lars von Trier's film Breaking the Waves. But the Englishwoman refused to work in France, and the creators had to urgently look for another performer.

Looking through the photos of novice artists, the director without hesitation opted for a young Frenchwoman, Audrey Tautou. The film was so successful that it spawned a veritable "amelemania". Fans of the melodrama gave their newborn daughters the name of their favorite heroine, and from the cafe in Montmartre "Two Mills", where the waitress Amelie worked according to the plot, they made a cult place.

In the United States, the French painting was nominated for 9 Oscars. In 2002, Audrey Tautou won her second Cesar and the Lumiere Award for Best Leading Actress. Against the backdrop of the success, the film “God is big, and I am small” was also released, in which Audrey Tautou was reincarnated as the heroine Michelle, who was looking for a religion to her liking.

In 2002, Audrey Tautou was invited to the melodrama of Letizia Colombani "Loves - Does Not Love" for the role of Angelica. Samuel Le Bian and Isabelle Carré also starred in the film. In the same year, the actress appears in the main cast of the comedy "Spanish Woman" and the thriller "Dirty Charms". A year later, with the participation of the actress, three different genres of films were released: the drama The Lost Sailors, the musical Not in the Lips and the Comedy Happy End by American director Amos Kollek.

In 2004, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet invites Audrey Tautou for a joint project for the second time. In the historical war drama "The Long Engagement", the actress gets the main role of Matilda, the bride of the soldier Manek, who fell under a military tribunal during the First World War and then disappeared without a trace. A young girl has to go in search of her beloved. For her new work, Audrey Tautou was nominated for the Cesar Award for Best Actress.

In 2005, Audrey appears in the romantic comedy Pretty Women (the sequel to The Spanish Woman). A year later, Tautou's filmography was replenished with work in the Hollywood thriller The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard, based on the novel by Dan Brown. Tom Hanks and Jean Reno were also invited to the main roles. In the first three days of international release, the film grossed $ 147 million. But the film met with opposition in religious circles, and film critics called it protracted.

In the same year, the French comedy film Fatal Beauty, directed by Pierre Salvadori, was shown with Audrey Tautou and Gad Elmaleh in the lead roles. The story of how a hunter of wealthy companions Irene met a simple bartender Jean by mistake, was attributed by the film community to films rated "PG-13", which means the presence of nude scenes. International distribution brought the filmmakers $ 20 million.

In 2007, the actress appeared in the main cast of the drama "Just Together" directed by Claude Berry, where Guillaume Canet and Laurent Stoker became her partners on the stage. Young people at a certain point in their lives begin to live in the same apartment, where they find in each other's faces that warmth and care that they did not receive in their families.

In 2009, Audrey Tautou appears in the iconic role of Gabrielle Chanel in the biography "Coco do Chanel" directed by Anne Fontaine. The drama won an Oscar for Best Costume Design, and Audrey Tautou received a BAFTA and Cesar nomination. After the premiere of the film, the Chanel perfume company signed a contract with the actress to advertise Chanel No. 5, whose face was previously the Hollywood star Nicole Kidman.

In Pierre Salvadori's 2010 Comedy Accidental Affair, Audrey Tautou is portrayed as Emily Dandrieu. The plot of the film tells how one day a girl receives an anonymous love letter, which forwards to her own mother. A year later, Audrey appears in the romantic comedy "Tenderness" about the relationship between two colleagues - Natalie and Marcus. François Damien, a comedian of Belgian origin, became Thoth's partner in the film.

In 2013, director Michel Gondry invited Audrey to the fantastic comedy Foam of the Days, based on the work of Boris Vian. The heroine Tautu suffers from a rare disease: a shell grows inside the girl, which slowly destroys her lungs. The film also stars Romain Duris, Gad Elmaleh, Omar Si. In the same year, the premiere of the French comedy "The Chinese Puzzle", in which the actress played the role of Martina, took place.

Audrey Tautou is still not married and the actress has no children. The Frenchwoman hides the details of her personal life, giving no reason for rumors even by publishing personal pictures on Instagram.

It is known that during the filming of the film "Amelie" partner Totou Mathieu Kassowitz tried to court the girl, but the romance between the young people did not work out. For some time, without any evidence, the musician Mathieu Shedid was considered the young man of the actress.

In 2016, Audrey Tautou participated in three films - "Night in Paris", "Eternity" and "Odyssey". The actress manages to reincarnate in different characters and life circumstances heroines: loving wife and mother Valentina from the historical drama "Eternity", assistant director Navel from the comedy "Night in Paris" and the muse of oceanologist Jacques-Yves Cousteau - wife Simon - from the drama "Odyssey" ... In 2017, the crime comedy "Successful People" by American director John Turturro is being prepared for release.

In April, Audrey Tautou received the Legion of Honor, which is considered the highest award in France. Now the actress bears the title of a knight of the order. In addition to working in film and theater, the actress is fond of music, visual arts and photography. Audrey has been a member of the Auverne Youth Orchestra for several years now, where she plays the oboe. And in early July 2017, as part of the French photography festival Rencontres d'Arles in Paris, an exhibition of Tautou's photographs in the form of self-portraits, taken in different places at different times, opened.

"Target Heart" - 1996 "Julie Lescaut" - 1998 "Venera Beauty Salon" - 1999 "Flap of the Moth's Wings" - 2000 "Amelie" - 2001 "Loves - Doesn't Love" - ​​2002 "Spanish Woman" - 2002 "Long Engagement" - 2004 "The Da Vinci Code" - 2006 "Fatal Beauty" - 2006 "Coco to Chanel" - 2009 "Tenderness" - 2011 "Eternity" - 2016 "Odyssey" - 2016

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Audrey Tautou Net Worth 2021

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