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Audrey Tautou, born August 9, 1978) is a
French film actress, known to worldwide audiences for
playing the title character in the award-winning French
film Amélie (2001, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie
Poulain) and as Sophie Neveu in The Da Vinci Code
(2006).
Early life: Tautou was born in Beaumont in the
Puy-de-Dôme département of Auvergne, and was raised in
Montluçon in the nearby Allier, still in Auvergne. Her
father is a dental surgeon and her mother is a teacher.
She has a younger brother and two younger sisters.
At one time fascinated by monkeys, she
wanted to be a primatologist. Tautou showed an interest
for comedy at an early age and started her acting
lessons at the Cours Florent.
Career: Tautou has said that Meryl Streep, Paul
Newman, Juliette Lewis, Jodie Foster and Julianne Moore
are her acting idols. In 1998, Tautou participated in a
Star Search-like competition sponsored by Canal+ called
"Jeunes Premiers" (The Young Debut) and won
Best Young Actress at the 9th Béziers Festival of Young
Actors.
Then, she came to the attention of Tonie
Marshall, who gave her a role in the César-winning
Venus Beauty Institute (1999, aka Vénus beauté
(institut)). In 2000 , she won the Prix Suzanne
Bianchetti as her country's most promising young film
actress.
Already well-known in France for her work in Venus
Beauty Institute, in 2001 Tautou rose to international
fame for her performance as the eccentric Amélie in the
romantic French comedy Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie
Poulain. In June 2004 she was invited to join the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). She
accepted the invitation and was still a member as of
September 1, 2006.
In 2005, Tautou worked in her first full Hollywood
production, opposite Tom Hanks, in the film version of
Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code,
directed by Ron Howard and released in May 2006. She
acted alongside Gad Elmaleh in Pierre Salvadori's Hors
de prix, released December 13th, 2006.
Having starred in her first major
Hollywood film, the cinema adaptation of The Da Vinci
Code, Tautou nevertheless has stated in interview that
she still considers France her base, and has expressed
plans to pursue a career predominantly there rather than
crossing over to the United States. As she told Stevie
Wong of The Straits Times, "I am, at the end of the
day, a French actress. I am not saying I will never
shoot an English-language movie again, but my home, my
community, my career is rooted in France. I would never
move to Los Angeles".
Tautou will star with Guillaume Canet (best known
outside of France for his role in the film adaptation of
The Beach) in Claude Berri's French-language Ensemble,
c'est tout in 2007.
Personal life: Her favourite authors are Victor
Hugo, Oscar Wilde and Paul Auster, and her favourite
poets are Charles Baudelaire and Tristan Tzara. Tautou's
favourite music composers are Ravel, Mozart and Frédéric
Chopin.
Tautou takes pictures of each reporter who interviews
her and keeps them in a scrapbook. Tautou has said that
"Everyone thinks I have an ethnic origin",
though she is actually "100-percent French".
She was brought up attending church, though she has now
stated that she is "not officially" a
Catholic. The Brand New song 'Tautou', from the album Déjà
Entendu is named after her. |
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