Audrey Tauou Biography
born Aug. 9, 1976/78, Beaumont, Auvergne, France) French actress known for her gamine beauty and elfin charm.
Tautou began her acting career with several television movies in the late 1990s and won a talent-search contest sponsored by a French media company in 1999. Later that year she appeared in her first major film role, portraying a naive salon worker in Vénus beauté (institut), which was released in the United States as Venus Beauty Institute. Tautou received a French César award as most-promising female newcomer for her performance. In 2000 she was a fixture in movie theatres, appearing in Épouse-moi ( Marry Me), Voyous voyelles ( Pretty Devils), Le Libertin ( The Libertine), and Le Battement d'ailes du papillon ( Happenstance).
Tautou's breakthrough, however, came in 2001 with the quirky Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain ( Amélie), in which she starred as a lonely waitress who concocts elaborate schemes to make others happy and in the process falls in love. The romantic fable, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, was an international hit, became the top-grossing French-language movie of all time in the United States, and scored an Oscar nomination for best foreign-language film. It also earned Tautou a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) nomination for best actress. In 2002 she made her English-language debut in Dirty Pretty Things. After appearing in the musical Pas sur la bouche (2003; Not on the Lips) and in Nowhere to Go but Up (2003), Tautou reteamed with Jeunet for the César award-winning Un Long Dimanche de fiançailles (2004; A Very Long Engagement), in which she played a woman searching for her lost fiancé after World War I. In 2006 Tautou starred in her first big-budget Hollywood film, The Da Vinci Code, but soon thereafter she returned to the more intimate French films that made her famous. Her subsequent movies include Hors de prix (2006; Priceless) and Ensemble, c'est tout (2007; Hunting and Gathering). In 2009 she portrayed Coco Chanel in the biopic Coco avant Chanel ( Coco Before Chanel).
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