Audrey Tautou

Born on August 9, 1978, in Puy-de-Dôme, France, Audrey Justine Tautou is the daughter of a dentist and a teacher who made a career in politics. Although the young Audrey at first wanted to dedicate her life to the study of primates, she ended up discovering that acting was her thing, for which she enrolled at the Cours Florent acting school, where greats of French cinema have passed, such as Daniel Auteuil .

After taking her first steps as an actress on television, she made her film debut with Venus, salon de belleza , which gave her some popularity in France. Soon after she was a young woman blinded by lust in The Rake .

But it gave the big bell when Jean-Pierre Jeunet turned her into the well-intentioned and philanthropic Amelie , after rejecting the role Emily Watson , the actress she had thought of, because she could not speak French. Tautou knew how to perfectly express the candor and kindness that her character required, and she became France’s girlfriend. After the triumph of the tape, no one would conceive it without this actress.

In interviews, he is often asked when he will disengage from the character. “Well, I don’t want to unclassify myself. Journalists always ask me that. Do you want me to unclassify myself from that character? Why? I adore her. It turns out that I owe everything to her! It was the character that gave me fame. I try to make all my roles credible, but that they continue to remember me for Amélie makes me excited,” he once told me.

Less fabulous was the fate of his next collaboration with Jeunet, Long Engagement , which was much more under the radar. She played a small role, as the protagonist’s girlfriend, in A Mad House , and reprized in the sequel, The Russian Dolls . And even though she drew the biggest salary of her career, she blundered in her first foray into Hollywood, in The Da Vinci Code , where she called a lot of attention to her utter lack of chemistry. with Tom Hanks. Since then he decided that he would concentrate above all on his French career. “I am a French actress. I am not saying that I will never work in an English-language film again. But my house, my career, are made in France and I would never move to Los Angeles,” said the actress.

Tautou likes the romantic genre, as can be seen in A deception of luxury , Together, nothing more and A sweet lie . She especially shined playing one of the most celebrated fashion designers of all time in Coco, from the rebellious to the legend of Chanel .

She had a long relationship with writer Lance Mazmanian, although she is currently paired with fellow actor Topher Grace . She assures that she has a strong character. “It’s the trait that most resembles Coco Chanel,” she told me.

But he responds to the image of being exactly like Amelie. For example, she has a curious custom that is very much like that character. She takes photos of the journalists to whom she gives us an interview, perhaps to put them in a photo album like the one she found in the famous film.