Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau was born on November 17, 1966 in Paris. Her parents divorced her when she was 9 years old, a time in which she had not yet shown the slightest interest in acting. In fact, she never considered being an actress until a coincidence in her life placed her in the sights of director Claude Pinoteau . She went with her mother to a modeling agency after learning that the filmmaker was looking for new faces for her next film. And Pinoteau chose Sophie to star in The Party(1980), a French film for teenagers that was very successful, for which two years later he shot his sequel, also with Marceau as the protagonist. The young woman entered the world of acting in a big way and decided to continue with the opportunity that the cinema had just offered her. Thus, in 1984 she surrounded herself with the greats of her country Gérard Depardieu , Philippe Noiret and Catherine Deneuve , to shoot the biographical drama Fort Saggane . By then, Marceau had already shown her sensuality. From the first moment, her compatriots saw the more physical side of her, from which she has never been able to separate. The cinema has been able to exploit this point in titles like Sympathetic and cheeky(1984), where as Lolita she brought Jean-Paul Belmondo upside down . The one who knew how to exploit this irresistible facet was Andrzej Zulawski , with whom he worked on L’amour braque (1985), Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos tours (1989), La note bleue (1991) and La fidelidad (2000). She also had a sentimental relationship with Zulawski, the result of which her son Vincent was born on July 24, 1995.

By now Marceau’s fame in France was unquestionable. It was then that he decided to face the typical challenge that many non-Hollywood actors set themselves: try their luck in the United States. There she filmed under the orders of Mel Gibson Braveheart (1995), where she was the beloved of the aforementioned, since she played the brave and brave princess Isabel. And it is that outside the French borders, things have not gone badly for Sophie, who has also worked for Wim Wenders and Michelangelo Antonioni in Beyond the Clouds (1995), has shared the bill with Michelle Pfeiffer , Christian Bale and Rupert Everett inWilliam Shakespeare ‘s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999) or has been a Bond girl in The World Is Never Enough (1999). But Sophie has never been obsessed with Hollywood, what’s more, she affirms that she believes that she has missed several opportunities for not bowing to the American work system, which according to her requires total involvement. And it is that at that time, Sophie had more things on her mind than the interpretation. On a personal level, she not only had to take care of her son Vincent, but also Juliette, who was born on June 13, 2002. The girl is the result of her relationship with Jim Lemley, who was a producer on Anna Karenina (1997), literary adaptation of the work of Leo Tolstoy in which Marceau starred.

Shortly before Juliette’s birth, Sophie gave in to another of her concerns and made her debut as a writer with the publication of the autobiographical novel “Telling Lies”. These were years of great activity in her life, both personally and professionally, since in 2002 Marceau made her debut as a director and screenwriter with Parlez-moi d’amour , a drama about a marriage that separates after 15 years old. She liked the experience and she repeated it in 2007 with La disparue de Deauville . On this occasion, the actress also reserved the leading role of a deceased interpreter who appears to a police officer. The immortal Christopher LambertShe played the agent and can boast of being Marceau’s latest conquest in real life, since they have a relationship.

Given that Hollywood is not the goose that lays the golden eggs for her, it is not surprising that she has continued to work continuously in her native France. There he has shot thrillers such as The Secret of Anthony Zimmer (2005) or dramatic comedies like LOL (Laughing Out Loud) , two good and opposite examples of what the cheerful side of the mature Marceau can give of itself with a melancholic and sexy touch. She now she has just filmed with Monica Bellucci Ella ne te retourne , where she will try to discover who she really is. She has also returned to the arms of her beloved Christopher hers to star in L’homme de chevet, a drama where she plays a quadriplegic and he plays an alcoholic ex-boxer. The years go by but Sophie continues to have the same spell as always. Her youthful spontaneity does not subside and she continues to compete for importance with her taciturn and melancholic halo.