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'Coco Before Chanel' - A Sneak Peek

AOL Style Blog - Found Jul. 1, 2009
Filed under: Style in the News Audrey Tautou at the Madrid premiere of "Coco Before Chanel." Photo: Getty Images The lovely editors at ELLE

Posted on July 1, 2009, 8:00 am

Coco Avant: Audrey Tautou tackles Chanel

Brisbane Courier-Mail - Found Jun. 24, 2009
: Email : Print Submit comment: Submit comment Charles Miranda AUDREY Tautou was never going to disappoint her adoring French public.

Posted on June 24, 2009, 6:32 am

Audrey Tautou: an apology

BBC - Found May. 29, 2009
Previous Next It seems somewhat ridiculous to level this criticism at Audrey Tautou.

Posted on May 29, 2009, 7:05 am

I Want To Be Audrey Tautou

15 Minute Beauty Fanatic - Found May. 6, 2009
Have you seen this movie yet from Chanel staring Audrey Tautou? It's meant as an ad for Chanel No.

Posted on May 6, 2009, 10:10 am

Chanel No. 5 Short Film Starring Audrey Tautou

ShoppingBlog.com - Found May. 5, 2009
Here is the short film for Chanel No. 5 starring Audrey Tautou called Train de Nuit . The film was directed by Jean Pierre Jeunet.

Posted on May 5, 2009, 12:50 pm

AICN Downunder: PUBLIC ENEMIES, LAKE MUNGO And That Jeff Goldblum ...

Ain't It Cool News - Found 4 hours ago
... cum-heroin addict-cum-cat burgler Jack Charles is revealed in this fascinating-looking Australian doco, Audrey Tautou stars in the sequel to...
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Zap2it.com

Posted on July 4, 2009, 7:05 am

Cotillard's vie en roles

Irish Times - Found 17 hours ago
With apologies to Audrey Tautou, Marion, who turns up this week in Michael Mann's barnstorming Public Enemies , might now be the leading...

Posted on July 3, 2009, 6:06 am

Bogus Dillinger

Boston Herald - Found Jul. 2, 2009
... her next film, a biopic of Coco Chanel starring Audrey Tautou. I have a feeling she will be much more sympathetic to Coco than she is to Audrey.
Johnny Depp + Christian Bale = Public Enemies - Now Magazine
Johnny Depp is back with Public Enemies - ITN
1934 film made her bait to nab Dillinger - Philadelphia Inquirer
Public Enemies Review - MaleFirst Mens Magazine
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Denver Post

Posted on July 2, 2009, 10:28 am

The Weekend Warrior: July 3 - 5

Coming Soon! - Found Jun. 30, 2009
Benot Grafin, who has written similarly-toned films like last year's Priceless starring Audrey Tautou, Anne Fontaine maintains the French...
Transformers tops US box office - BBC
Transformers still rule UK cinema - BBC
"Transformers" Triumph At The Box Office - CBS News
Bumpy road to riches for 'Transformers' - Chicago Sun-Times
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Town Hall

Posted on June 30, 2009, 2:11 am

Gunns logo gets the chop

The Australian - Found Jun. 29, 2009
Therese, unless Kev's hanging out with a certain mohawked character from The A-Team) who wanted to see Coco (avant) Chanel with Audrey Tautou.

Posted on June 29, 2009, 9:27 am

Audrey Tautou Biography

Audrey Tautou
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Audrey Tautou
Born Audrey Justine Tautou
August 9 1976/1978
Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Years active 1996–present

Audrey Justine Tautou (French pronunciation: [odʁɛ totu]; born 9 August, either in 197612345 or 1978)6789 is a French film actress, known to worldwide audiences for playing the title character in the award-winning 2001 film Amélie, Sophie Neveu in the 2006 thriller The Da Vinci Code, and more recently Irène in Priceless (2006). She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in Venus Beauty Institute (1999).

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Early life

Tautou was born in the Puy-de-Dôme département of Auvergne, and was raised in Montluçon in nearby Allier, Auvergne. Her father is a dental surgeon and her mother is a teacher. After the premiere of the film Amélie (for which she received phenomenal amounts of paparazzi and press coverage) she travelled to the jungles of Indonesia to help with the preservation of a monkey sanctuary. Tautou showed an interest in comedy at an early age and started her acting lessons at the Cours Florent. This theatrical institution is highly prestigious and she is one of several famous actors to have passed through its doors (others including Muriel Robin, Daniel Auteuil and Guillaume Canet). After graduating she went on to star in some of French cinema's biggest and most famous films.

Career

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 lead in the romantic comedy Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie). In June 2004 she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).10 She accepted the invitation and is still a member as of 1 September, 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 13 December, 2006. Tautou says she still considers France her base, and 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".11

Tautou starred with Guillaume Canet (best known for his role in the film adaptation of The Beach) in Claude Berri's Ensemble, c'est tout in 2007, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Anna Gavalda.

Tautou is next to star in the upcoming biopic of fashion designer Coco Chanel. Filming is set to start in Paris on 15 September, 2008, and will released in France April 22, 2009. The project is titled Coco avant Chanel, and is directed by Anne Fontaine.121314 The script of the new movie15 is partially based on Edmonde Charles-Roux’s book “L’Irrégulière” (”The Non-Conformist”). As part of promoting the new Coco Chanel bio film in May 2008, Tautou was named as the next spokesmodel for Chanel No. 5, replacing Nicole Kidman. She will be directed in the advertisement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with whom she worked on Amélie and A Very Long Engagement. The advertisement will be released in 2009 to coincide with the film's release.161718

Personal life

Her favourite authors are Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Paul Auster, and Timothy Zahn; and her favourite poets are Charles Baudelaire and Tristan Tzara.

Tautou takes pictures of each reporter who interviews her and keeps them in a scrapbook. In France, many consider her as the "typical Occitan Auvergnate".19 She was brought up attending church, though she has now stated that she is "not officially" a Catholic.20

The Brand New song "Tautou", from the album Déjà Entendu is named after her.

Following the making of Coco avant Chanel she started dating Benoît Poelvoorde whom she met on set.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Natacha Régnier
for The Dreamlife of Angels
César Award for Most Promising Actress
2000
for Venus Beauty Institute
Succeeded by
Sylvie Testud
for Les Blessures assassines
Preceded by
Zhang Ziyi
CFCA Award for Most Promising Performer
2001
Succeeded by
Maggie Gyllenhaal

References

  1. ^ IMDB Biography, IMDB, http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0851582/bio, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  2. ^ A very big engagement, Times Online, http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article715245.ece, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  3. ^ Montlucon's Jules Ferry college alumnus, http://coll-ferry-montlucon.planet-allier.com/, http://coll-ferry-montlucon.planet-allier.com/celebres.html, retrieved on 2008-08-28 
  4. ^ Birth certificate, Les Gens du Cinema, http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=tautou&nom_acteur=TAUTOU%20Audrey&ident=55466&debut=0&record=0, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  5. ^ Transcript of interview from French edition of Elle, Elle, French edition issue 3068, October 2004, http://web.archive.org/web/20060515141812/http://fandeaudreytautou.free.fr/interview_elle_uldf.php, retrieved on 2008-08-28 
  6. ^ Vanderschelden, Isabelle (2006). Amélie ; Le Fabuleux Destin D' Amélie Poulain. I. B. Tauris. pp. 21. ISBN 9781845113759. 
  7. ^ Audrey Tautou, Encyclopædia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1020875/Audrey-Tautou, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  8. ^ , AskMen.com, http://www.askmen.com/celebs/women/actress_200/233_audrey_tautou.html, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  9. ^ Audrey Tautou, Variety, http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/44857/Audrey+Tautou.html?dataSet=1/, retrieved on 2008-08-22 
  10. ^ Academy Invites 127 to Membership
  11. ^ The Star Online eCentral: From Amelie to Sophie
  12. ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a126980/warner-bros-backs-chanel-biopic.html?imdb
  13. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851582/
  14. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1035736/
  15. ^ Audrey Tautou: The New Coco Chanel
  16. ^ New role for Audrey Tautou, Daily Telegraph, 2008-05-11, http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23676294-5006013,00.html, retrieved on 2008-05-21 
  17. ^ Snead, Elizabeth (2008-05-05), Is it a bird or a plane? Sarah Jessica Parker won't save the Costume Gala?, Los Angeles Times, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/05/tonights-metrop.html, retrieved on 2008-05-21 
  18. ^ Audrey Tautou new face of Chanel, China Daily, 2008-05-16, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2008-05/16/content_6690516.htm, retrieved on 2008-05-21 
  19. ^ An Interview With Audrey Tautou
  20. ^ Audrey Tautou News | Tautou dismisses Da Vinci controversy

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