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Sophie Marceau is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L'Étudiante (1988), Pacific Palisades (1990), Fanfan (1993) and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994). She became an international film star w…
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Born 17 November 1966 · Q162753
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As of 2020 and since the 1990s, the circumlocution "the French people's favourite actress" (French: actrice préférée des Français) became a synonym for Marceau in media and the press as she has regularly topped most annual surveys and opinion polls determining it during that period.
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“This is why I refused the Legion of honour”
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For about 10 months, Marceau was in a relationship with the chef and restaurant owner Cyril Lignac
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Appeared in Arrêtez-moi (Arrest Me) as a woman who shows up at a police station and confesses to the murder of her abusive husband several years earlier
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Marceau played a 40-something career woman who falls in love with a young jazz musician in Happiness Never Comes Alone
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Marceau played a successful business executive forced to confront her unhappy childhood in With Love
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Teamed up with Monica Bellucci in Don't Look Back about the mysterious connection between two women who have never met
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Marceau played a member of the French Resistance movement in Female Agents, and a struggling single mother in LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
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With whom she appeared in the films Trivial and Cartagena
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Directed Trivial, her second feature film and in 2018 Mrs Mills
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Montréal World Film Festival Grand Prix Special des Amériques
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An undercover police agent in Anthony Zimmer in 2005, and the troubled daughter of a murdered film star in Trivial in 2007
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Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (2003).
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And in 2015 she revealed that she had declined the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur)
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Marceau made her directorial debut in the feature film Speak to Me of Love, for which she was named Best Director at the Montreal World Film Festival
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Marceau separated from Żuławski and began a six-year relationship with American producer Jim Lemley
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Marceau teamed up again with her then-partner Andrzej Zulawski to film Fidelity, playing the role of a talented photographer who takes a job at a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccent
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Marceau is a classically trained cellist, as seen in the 1999 film Lost and Found.
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Played Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the villainous Bond girl Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough
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Continued her string of successful films with William Nicholson's Firelight, filmed in England, Véra Belmont's Marquise, filmed in France, and Bernard Rose's Anna Karenina, filmed in Russia
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Marceau published the semi-autobiographical novel, Menteuse (the English translation, Telling Lies, was published in 2001)
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Playing the role of Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson's Braveheart
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And Revenge of the Musketeers (La fille de d'Artagnan) in 1994—both popular in Europe and abroad
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Ventured into the theater in Eurydice, which earned Marceau the Moliere Award for Best Female Newcomer
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Starred in Pacific Palisades and La note bleue, her third film directed by her companion
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Marceau starred in My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days, which was directed by her long-time partner Andrzej Zulawski
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Starred in L'Étudiante (The Student) and the historical adventure film Chouans
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From 1985 to 2001, Marceau was in a relationship with Polish director Andrzej Żuławski.
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Released album “Certitude”.
With Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, Joyeuses Pâques (Happy Easter) in 1984, L'amour braque and Police in 1985, and Descente aux enfers (Descent into Hell) in 1986
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Awarded César Award for Best Female Revelation for La Boum 2 (1983).
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At age 16, Marceau bought back her contract with Gaumont for one million French francs
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Marceau made her singing debut with French singer François Valéry on record "Dream in Blue", written by Pierre Delanoë
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Born 1966-11-17.
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