Marion Cotillard
Movie Actress — born 1975
Marion Cotillard is a well-known French actress, singer and songwriter.
Marion Cotillard is a French actress, singer, and environmental activist whose three-decade career has produced multiple defining French and American film roles — particularly her 2008 Best Actress Academy Award win for Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose (the first French actress ever to win the Best Actress Academy Award for a French-language film, and the first actress ever to win the Best Actress Academy Award for an Edith Piaf-biographical film). She was born Marion Cotillard on September 30, 1975, in Paris, France, into a French theatrical family. Her father Jean-Claude Cotillard was a French theater director and actor (a 1985 graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre), and her mother Niseema Theillaud was a French stage actress.
Her education at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique d'Orléans (1993) launched her early-career path. Her 1994 first feature-film appearance in the French TV-movie L'Histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse launched her early-1990s French film public profile.
Her late-1990s and early-2000s French film career produced multiple French films — particularly her 1998 supporting role as Lilly Bertineau in Gérard Pirès's Taxi (and the subsequent Taxi 2 2000, Taxi 3 2003, and Taxi 4 2007 sequels), and her 2003 Best Supporting Actress César Award for Yann Samuell's Jeux d'enfants.
Her 2007 lead role as French singer Édith Piaf in Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose — across the film's portrayal of Piaf's life from her early-life childhood through her October 1963 death at age 47 — won her the 2008 Best Actress Academy Award (the first time the Best Actress Academy Award had been awarded for a French-language film since Sophia Loren's 1962 win for La ciociara). Her subsequent American film career has produced multiple defining American films — particularly Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio), Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011), Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (2012), James Gray's The Immigrant (2013), Justin Kurzel's Macbeth (2015), and Robert Zemeckis's Allied (2016, opposite Brad Pitt). She has been with French actor Guillaume Canet since 2007, and the couple has two children.
Her name Marion derives from the medieval French diminutive of Marie (from the Hebrew Miryam). Marion has been continuously among the most-popular American girls' names since 1880.
About the name Marion
Gender: Female · Origin: Hebrew
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