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Asahi.com - Found Sep. 29, 2008
Women make the future of the Earth.' The feature contained a conversation between French actress Sophie Marceau and Japanese TV talent Uno...

Posted on September 29, 2008, 9:04 am

French actress to star at film festival in Ha Noi

Viet Nam News - Found Oct. 9, 2008
It will be followed by Les Femmes de L'Ombre (The Women of the Shadow), starring Sophie Marceau.

Posted on October 9, 2008, 7:30 am

Female Agents (Les Femmes de l'ombre)

DVD Times - Found Oct. 7, 2008
... a gripping, edge-of-the-seat synthesis of drama and action.Top agent Louise Desfontaines (Sophie Marceau) becomes involved with the British...

Posted on October 7, 2008, 11:30 am

Female Agents DVD

First Post - Found Oct. 6, 2008
Jean-Paul Salome's recent hit film Female Agents starring Sophie Marceau is a powerful WWII epic based on the true story of a band of female
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Posted on October 6, 2008, 2:23 am

Rome includes 12 world premieres in 20-film competition

Screendaily - Found Oct. 1, 2008
... by Gianluca Giannelli Savastano includes the world premiere of French title LOL by Lisa Azuelos with Sophie Marceau and Finland's The Home Of...
Rome festival unveils competition lineup - Hollywood Reporter
Pacino To Be Honored In Rome - CBS News
Italian movies to dominate Rome film festival - Reuters
Italian movies to dominate Rome film festival - Reuters
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Posted on October 1, 2008, 4:56 am

Female Agents

Eye for Film - Found 11 hours ago
... committee ? oddly speaking in French that?s subtitled in English - recruit Louise Desfontaine (Sophie Marceau) to deter him, first in...

Posted on October 11, 2008, 8:04 am

Female Agents *** (15)

Daily Record - Found Oct. 10, 2008
I WILL say this only once ... French resistance fighter Louise Desfontaines (Sophie Marceau) builds a team of ladies to rescue a Brit.

Posted on October 10, 2008, 4:45 am

Nurses & Officers 'Wear Sexiest Uniforms'

Life Style Extra - Found Oct. 9, 2008
While fellas prefer the classic nurse look a fifth said that Army gear - as worn by former Bond girl Sophie Marceau in hit flick Female Agents...

Posted on October 9, 2008, 5:50 am

DVD: Female Agents (15) 3/5

Nottingham Evening Post - Found Oct. 3, 2008
... preparations for the D-Day landings in the spring of 1944, it revolves around Louise (Sophie Marceau) who, after witnessing her husband killed...

Posted on October 3, 2008, 9:23 am

Romance and resistance

This is Essex - Found Oct. 6, 2008
French resistance operative and trained sniper Louise Desfontaines (Sophie Marceau) escapes to London where she is entrusted with a secret...

Posted on October 6, 2008, 1:52 pm

Sophie Marceau Biography

Sophie Marceau
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Sophie Marceau
Born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu
November 17, 1966 (1966-11-17) (age 41)
Paris, France
Years active 1980 – present
Spouse(s) Andrzej Żuławski

Sophie Marceau (IPA[sɔfi maʁso]) (born November 17, 1966) is a French actress. She has worked in international films such as Braveheart and The World Is Not Enough.

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Biography

Early life

Sophie Marceau was born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, the second child of Benoît and Simone Maupu. Her father, Benoît, a veteran of the Algerian War, worked as a truck driver, painter, and bartender; her mother, Simone, was a demonstrator in department stores. Her brother Sylvain is three years older.citation needed

Career

Marceau started her career at 14 when Claude Pinoteau cast her in the starring role of the teenager movie La Boum (1980).

The family lived a working class life that left Marceau with generally fond memories of childhood. During the week, she helped at the family restaurant. She spent weekends with her family in La Cabane, a small house in Vert-le-Petit in the Essonne.

Her parents divorced when she was nine.[1] Marceau enjoyed school but not studying, although liked reading Molière.citation needed

She collected stray and abandoned animals with her older brother. She had a dog named Scotch, a cat called Bidule and adopted a German shepherd at the Société de Protection des Animaux.citation needed

Discovered

In February 1980, Marceau and her mother came across a model agency looking for teenagers. Marceau had photos taken at the agency but did not think anything would come of it. At the same time, Françoise Menidrey, casting director for Claude Pinoteau's La Boum, asked modeling agencies for a new teenager. A month after her photo session, Marceau was invited to audition.citation needed

Marceau was called back to read for director Claude Pinoteau, who was won over by her "surprising simplicity". Filming began on July 17 and finished in time for her school's fall term. After viewing the rushes, Alain Poiré, the director of the Gaumont Film Company, signed Marceau to a long-term contract. Before the film opened, Marceau changed her name following her agency's advice. She chose "Marceau" to retain her initials.citation needed

La Boum was a hit not only in France, where 4.5 million tickets were sold, but in Italy, Japan and elsewhere. Marceau, 14, posed for magazine covers, gave interviews and made commercials for the soap Lux Beauté, which made her a star in Japan.citation needed

In 1981, Marceau made her singing debut with French singer François Valéry on "Dream in Blue," written by Delanoë. In 1985, she recorded her only album Certitude, which contained nine songs written by Étienne Roda-Gil and composer Franck Langolff.citation needed

Early film career

In 1982, at the age of 16, Marceau bought back her contract with Gaumont for one million French francs. She borrowed most of the money. In 1983, Marceau received the César Award (France's equivalent of an Oscar) for Most Promising Actress.citation needed

After starring in the sequel film La Boum 2 in 1982, Marceau focused on more dramatic roles, including Fort Saganne (co-starring Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve) and Joyeuse Pâques (Happy Easter) in 1984, L'Amour Braque and Police in 1985, and Descente aux Enfers (Descent Into Hell) in 1986. In 1988, she starred in L'Etudiante (The Student) and Chouans!. That year, Marceau was named Best Romantic Actress at the International Festival of Romantic Movies for her role in Chouans.[2]

In 1989, she starred in Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours (My Nights are more Beautiful than your Days), which was directed by her long-time boyfriend Andrzej Zulawski. In 1990, she starred in Pacific Palisades and La Note Bleue, her third film directed by her companion. In 1991, she ventured into the theater in Eurydice, which earned a Marceau a Moliere Award for Most Promising Newcomer.[2]

Marceau began making less-dramatic films, such as the comedy Fanfan in 1993 and La Fille de D'Artagnan in 1994 — both popular in Europe and abroad. That year, she returned to the theatre as Eliza Dolittle in Pygmalion.[2]

International success

In 1995, Marceau achieved international recognition as Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson's Braveheart. That year, she was part of an ensemble of international actors in the French film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders, Beyond the Clouds.

In 1997, Marceau continued with William Nicholson's Firelight, filmed in England, Véra Belmont's Marquise, filmed in France, and Bernard Rose's Anna Karenina.

In 1999, two films defined her as an international star. For A Midsummer Night's Dream, she played Hippolyta. That same year, she became a Bond girl by playing Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough.

In 2000, Marceau teamed up again with her then-boyfriend Andrzej Zulawski to film La Fidélité.[2]

Author and director

In 2001, Marceau wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, Telling Lies, in which the narrator is a beautiful actress who is confident in her beauty and talent and yet insecure. The unnamed narrator takes the reader into a world of memories, fantasies, and impressions, but never reveals herself completely. Marceau describes what the narrator is going through:

It's the day of separation, and from that second she realises she has gone, like an everyday lifetime with memories coming back. Because she's in the middle of something new that hasn't been yet, and something done already. How time can be elastic; how it can betray you, be capricious and play with you.[3]

Marceau produced an exploration of female identity.[1]

In 2002, 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. The film starred Judith Godrèche. It was her second effort at directing (she made the nine-minute short film L'Aube à l'envers in 1995, which also starred Godrèche).citation needed Entering an award ceremony (Cannes, 2005), the shoulder strap on Marceau's dress fell off, exposing what was still considered "the perfect bosom".[4]

Personal life

Marceau married director Andrzej Żuławski, who is 26 years her senior. Their son Vincent was born in June 1995. In 2001, Marceau separated from Zulawski and became involved with producer Jim Lemley and later gave birth to her second child, Juliette, born in London in 2002. In 2007, French newspapers and magazines reported that Marceau was dating Christopher Lambert, with whom she acted in La Disparue de Deauville.citation needed

Filmography

Actress

Writer and Director

References

  1. ^ a b Billen, Andrew. "Lies and loves of ma belle Marceau," Sunday Herald, June 10, 2001.
  2. ^ a b c d Net Glimpse, Retrieved on December 1, 2007
  3. ^ Bennett, Oliver. "Sophie Marceau — The Left Bank ambassador" in The London Independent, May 31, 2001.
  4. ^ Features | The First Post

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NAME Marceau, Sophie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maupu, Sophie Danièle Sylvie
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DATE OF BIRTH 17 November 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris, France
DATE OF DEATH
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