Juliette Binoche has appeared in more than sixty feature films and has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, Volpi Cup and a Cesar Award.
76 Facts About Juliette Binoche
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Juliette Binoche's father, who is French, has one eighth Portuguese-Brazilian ancestry; he was raised partly in Morocco by his French-born parents.
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Juliette Binoche has stated that this perceived parental abandonment had a profound effect on her.
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Juliette Binoche was not particularly academic and in her teenage years began acting at school in amateur stage productions.
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Juliette Binoche studied acting at the Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique, but quit after a short time as she disliked the curriculum.
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Juliette Binoche's role required just two days on-set, but was enough to inspire Binoche to pursue a career in film.
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Godard requested a meeting with Juliette Binoche having seen a photo of her taken by her boyfriend at the time.
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Juliette Binoche gained more significant exposure in Jacques Doillon's critically acclaimed Family Life cast as the volatile teenage step-daughter of Sami Frey's central character.
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Juliette Binoche was cast at short notice when Sandrine Bonnaire had to abandon the film due to a scheduling conflict.
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The film was a sensation and Juliette Binoche became the darling of the festival.
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In 1986, Juliette Binoche was nominated for her first Cesar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the film.
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Juliette Binoche auditioned unsuccessfully for Yves Boisset's Bleu comme l'enfer and Robin Davis's Hors la loi, but was eventually cast in My Brother-in-Law Killed My Sister by Jacques Rouffio opposite the popular French stars Michel Serrault and Michel Piccoli.
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Juliette Binoche has commented that Rouffio's film is very significant to her career as it taught her to judge roles based on the quality of the screenplay and her connection with a director, not on the reputation of other cast members.
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Juliette Binoche has stated that she, "discovered the camera", while shooting this film.
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Juliette Binoche has stated that at the time her English was very limited and that she relied on a French translation to fully grasp her role.
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Juliette Binoche has stated that her attraction to this film was that it gave her the opportunity to work with close friends and family.
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Juliette Binoche won a European Film Award as well as securing her third Cesar nomination for her performance.
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Juliette Binoche designed the French poster for the film which features an ink drawing of the eponymous lovers locked in embrace.
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At this point, Juliette Binoche seemed to be at a crossroads in her career.
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Juliette Binoche was recognized as one of the most significant French actresses of her generation.
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Juliette Binoche then chose to pursue an international career outside France.
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Juliette Binoche has nicknamed her characters from this period as her "sorrowful sisters".
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Yet, from a professional and personal point of view, both films were significant challenges for Juliette Binoche; her casting opposite Ralph Fiennes's Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, instead of English actresses Helena Bonham Carter and Kate Beckinsale, was immediately contentious and drew derision from the British press, unimpressed that a uniquely English role had gone to a French actress.
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Reviews were poor, with Juliette Binoche being cynically dubbed "Cathy Clouseau" and derided for her "franglais" accent.
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Juliette Binoche won a Cesar, and a nomination for the Golden Globe.
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Juliette Binoche has said her inspirations for the role were her friend and coach Vernice Klier who suffered a similar tragedy, and the book The Black Veil by Anny Duperey which deals with the author's grief at losing her parents at a young age.
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Juliette Binoche made cameo appearances in the other two films in Kieslowski's trilogy, Three Colours: White and Three Colours: Red.
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In 1995, Juliette Binoche returned to the screen in a big-budget adaptation of Jean Giono's The Horseman on the Roof directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.
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The film was a box office success around the world and Juliette Binoche was again nominated for a Cesar for Best Actress.
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In 1996, Juliette Binoche appeared in her first comedic role since My Brother-in-Law Killed My Sister a decade before; A Couch in New York was directed by Chantal Akerman and co-starred William Hurt.
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Juliette Binoche has said that the shoot on location in Tuscany and at the famed Cinecitta in Rome was among the happiest professional experiences of her career.
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Juliette Binoche was released from the film six weeks into the shoot due to differences with Berri regarding the authenticity of his script.
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Juliette Binoche has described this event as being like "an earthquake" to her.
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In February 1998, Juliette Binoche made her London stage debut in a new version of Luigi Pirandello's Clothe the Naked re-titled Naked and adapted by Nicolas Wright.
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La Veuve de Saint-Pierre by Patrice Leconte, for which she was nominated for a Cesar for Best Actress, was a period drama which saw Juliette Binoche appear opposite Daniel Auteuil in the role of a woman who attempts to save a condemned man from the guillotine.
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Later that year, Juliette Binoche made her Broadway debut in an adaptation of Harold Pinter's Betrayal for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.
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Back on screen, Juliette Binoche was the heroine of the Lasse Hallstrom film Chocolat from the best selling novel by Joanne Harris.
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Between 1995 and 2000, Juliette Binoche was the advertising face of the Lancome perfume Poeme, her image adorning print campaigns photographed by Richard Avedon and a television advertising campaign, including an advert directed by Anthony Minghella and scored by Gabriel Yared.
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Keen to try something new, Juliette Binoche returned to French cinema in 2002 in an unlikely role: she played a ditsy beautician in Jet Lag opposite Jean Reno.
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The film, directed by Daniele Thompson, was a box office hit in France and Juliette Binoche was nominated for a Cesar for Best Actress.
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The advertisement played upon her Chocolat persona featuring Juliette Binoche handing out the chocolates to people on the streets of Paris.
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The film was an immediate success, winning best director for Haneke at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, while Juliette Binoche was nominated for a European Film Award for Best Actress for her role.
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In September 2006, Juliette Binoche appeared at the Venice Film Festival to launch A Few Days in September, written and directed by Santiago Amigorena.
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In Breaking and Entering, Juliette Binoche played a Bosnian refugee living in London, while Jude Law co-starred as a well-to-do businessman drawn into her life via an act of deception.
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In preparation for her role, Juliette Binoche traveled to Sarajevo where she met women who had survived the war of the 1990s.
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Juliette Binoche again seemed to be at a crossroads in her career.
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Juliette Binoche was honored with the Maureen O'Hara Award at the Kerry Film Festival in 2010, an award offered to women who have excelled in their chosen field in film.
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Juliette Binoche arrives in Gaza during the 2005 Israeli disengagement.
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Back in France, Juliette Binoche experienced popular and critical success in Paris directed by Cedric Klapisch.
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The Sunday Times in the UK commented that, "Juliette Binoche's physical achievement is incredible: Khan is a master mover".
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The production was part of a 'Juliette Binoche Season' titled Ju'Bi'lations, featuring a retrospective of her film work and an exhibition of her paintings, which were published in a bilingual book Portraits in Eyes.
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Juliette Binoche's visit proved controversial when two Iranian MPs raised the matter in parliament, advising more caution be exercised in granting visas to foreign celebrities which might lead to "cultural destruction".
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In June 2009, Juliette Binoche began work on Certified Copy directed by Kiarostami.
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Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress Award at the festival for her performance.
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Elles, produced under the working title Sponsoring, is an examination of teenage prostitution with Juliette Binoche playing a journalist for ELLE.
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On 17 February 2011, Screendaily announced that Juliette Binoche had been cast in David Cronenberg's film Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti, Mathieu Amalric, and Samantha Morton.
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Juliette Binoche appeared in a supporting role as a New York art dealer, Didi Fancher, who is having an affair with Pattinson's Eric Packer.
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Juliette Binoche co-starred in Gareth Edwards's Godzilla, which was theatrically released in May 2014.
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August 2013 saw Juliette Binoche reunite with Olivier Assayas for Clouds of Sils Maria.
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In 2015, Juliette Binoche starred on stage in a new English language translation of Antigone.
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Juliette Binoche narrated the new documentary film titled Talking about Rose about the Chad soldier Rose Lokissim who fought against Hissene Habre's dictatorship in the 1980s.
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In 2016, Juliette Binoche reunited with Bruno Dumont for a comedy film Slack Bay.
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Juliette Binoche portrays a choreographer, Liria Elsaj, who awakens a desire in Polina to move away from classical ballet to explore more contemporary dance.
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In May 2017 Binoche and Cottin appeared together again, this time on the small screen in the final episode of the second season of Dix Pour Cent where Juliette Binoche played herself in a tongue-in-cheek episode centering on the Cannes Film Festival.
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Juliette Binoche played Dr Ouelet, a scientist with the Hanka organization responsible for creating the ghost in the shell, Major, portrayed by Scarlett Johansson.
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Juliette Binoche's half-brother Camille Humeau was born on 1978 and is an acclaimed musician and has been part of the line-up of Oncle Strongle, before top-lining the group Artichaut Orkestra.
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Since 1992, Juliette Binoche has been a patron of the French Cambodian charity Enfants d'Asie.
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On 7 February 2006, Juliette Binoche attended a high-profile demonstration organized by Reporters Without Borders in support of Jill Carroll and two Iraqi journalists who had been abducted in Baghdad.
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Juliette Binoche supported Jose Bove in the 2007 French presidential election, which was won by Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Juliette Binoche disclosed on a number of occasions that she did not approve of the Sarkozy administration, stating that he was creating a monarchic republic.
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Juliette Binoche was a signatory to a June 2010 petition organized by Reporters Without Borders and Shirin Ebadi to protest against the detention of numerous people, including members of the press, who were protesting the occasion of the first anniversary of the disputed re-election of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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At the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Juliette Binoche spoke out against the detention of Iranian director Jafar Panahi, incarcerated in Tehran's Evin Prison since 1 March 2010 without charge or conviction.
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At the press conference following the press screening of Copie Conforme, Juliette Binoche was informed that Panahi had begun a hunger strike.
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Juliette Binoche read a letter that said that Panahi's detention was "unwarranted and intolerable".
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When Juliette Binoche was awarded the Best Actress award at the festival, brandishing his name on a placard, she used her speech as an opportunity to raise Panahi's plight .
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In February 2019, during a press conference at the Berlin International Film Festival, Juliette Binoche said that Harvey Weinstein was a great producer and "we shouldn't forget, even though it has been difficult for some directors and actors, and especially actresses".