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Marion Cotillard
Transforming into Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose and winning the Best Actress Oscar.
La Vie en Rose · Inception
- Born
- 30 September 1975
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
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Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard is a French actor whose career spans French dramas, musicals and Hollywood productions.
Early life
Performing family
Both parents worked in theatre, and she began appearing on stage as a child.
Formal training
She studied drama in Orléans before moving to Paris to pursue acting.
Career
- 1998
Breakthrough
Taxi introduced her to a large French audience.
- 2000s
Crossing industries
French award-winning roles were followed by major English-language productions.
- 2010s
Leading dramatic roles
She combined Hollywood films with European work such as Two Days, One Night.
Selected work
La Vie en Rose
A biographical performance tracing the life of Édith Piaf.
Inception
She plays the haunting presence in a dream thief’s memories.
Two Days, One Night
A worker asks colleagues to help her keep her job.
Beyond work
Environmental advocacy
She has worked with Greenpeace on environmental campaigns.
Music and stage
She has performed Joan of Arc at the Stake with orchestras internationally.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Biographical dates and identifiers ↗Academy Awards 2008 ↗Photo: Harald Krichel. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
