Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is considered one of the most beautiful women in the world and a film icon. Something highly commendable, taking into account that she is French and except for isolated cases such as Sophia Loren , it is not very frequent to see Europeans elevated to the category of star of the world cinematographic firmament.

La Binoche, as she has been known for years, was born on March 9, 1964 in Paris. She studied at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in the French capital and devoted her life to acting. Her professional life has been developed above all in the cinema, although it is also necessary to review her less usual time on stage, but which has brought her several recognitions such as the Tony for her work in “Betrayal”. . Her debut in the cinema came as a secondary in the drama Liberty belle (1983), although it soon became clear that Juliette was born to be the protagonist of her. Her first notable role came in 1985 in the highly erotic film The Date .. The nudes have not caused moral problems for Binoche, who posed for Playboy magazine at the age of 43. Her work in this film earned her her first César nomination – the French equivalent of the Goya –, to which she would nominate seven more times. And it is that in this sense the Binoche is the gala Maribel Verdú . Both accumulate nominations, but only one national award in their showcases, which in the case of Juliette came with Three Colors: Blue (1993).

His first American break came in 1988 with the film adaptation of Milan Kundera ‘s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being . Binoche shared the bill with Daniel Day-Lewis and started a horse race between his native country and the United States. Back in France, she did a brilliant job in Les amantes du Pont-Neuf (1991), where she played a homeless painter. Like the protagonist of the film, Juliette, she is passionate about painting. In fact, the poster for the tape was made by her. Her career continued to develop along the lines of drama, a genre to which she has dedicated most of her filmography. Thus, she starred in the romantic drama Wuthering Heights (1992) and the erotic drama ofLouis Malle Wounded (1992), opposite Jeremy Irons . It was demonstrated that she could be the most sensual woman in the world, but also the most tender and unprotected. It was this last facet of her that interested Krzysztof Kieslowski , who chose her to star in his trilogy on the three colors of the French flag. In her first title, Three Colors: Blue (1993) she was the undisputed protagonist of a drama where she lost her family. With this title she consolidated the international recognition that had been forged since previous years.

Among the few outings from the drama that the actress has had are titles such as the adventurer The Hussar on the Roof (1995), which she starred in alongside Olivier Martinez , with whom she had a romantic relationship. And it is that Binoche has had a somewhat eventful love life. In 1993 her son Raphael was born, the result of her union with Andre Halle. Six years later her daughter Hannah was born to her from her relationship with actor Benoît Magimel . She has also been romantically involved with director Leos Carax , actor Mathieu Amalric , and her latest conquest, writer-director Santiago Amigorena .

Although in the character of Julie in the Kieslowski trilogy, Juliette gave the chest, it was with the sweet nurse Hana from The English Patient (1996) with which she reached the general public. The tender care that she offered to her former co-star Ralph Fiennes of her , earned her the Oscar for best supporting actress. The award-winning film was directed by the recently deceased Anthony Minghella , who also cast her as a courageous mother in Breaking and Entering (2006).

The “golden bald” seemed to take a liking to Binoche, who was again nominated for an Oscar for her work in Chocolat (2000). The tender Juliette could be even sweeter if possible thanks to the sugary romantic drama starring alongside Johnny Depp and an appetizing chocolate in her multiple varieties. Her love affair with Depp led to another of the few dramatic exceptions in her career. The actress starred with Jean Reno in the comedy Jet Lag (2002), a genre in which she has just repeated with Steve Carell in Como la vida misma (2007). However, her usual terrain was drama as she demonstrated in minor films like In my Country .(2004) or The footprint of silence (2005). More interesting was her role in Abel Ferrara ‘s Mary (2005) , where she was an actress who played Mary Magdalene and decided to find the meaning of her life.

A new change of scenery was provided by her beloved Amigorena in the thriller Some days in September (2006), about international espionage. He is currently shooting the drama Roonevesht barabar asl ast under the orders of the Iranian Abbas Kiarostami , something surprising for a filmmaker who does not usually shoot with professional actors. So, for the moment, Juliette does not seem to suffer from the endemic disease that actresses suffer from once they have reached a certain age. Indeed, Binoche is a lot of Binoche to remain unemployed, it would be missing more.