Emmanuelle Béart

Emmanuelle Béart born 14 August 1963 is a French actress who has appeared in over 60 film and television productions since 1972 An eighttime César Award nominee she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Manon des Sources Her other film roles include La Belle Noiseuse 1991 A Heart in Winter 1992 Nelly and Mr Arnaud 1995 Mission Impossible 1996 and 8 Women 2002 Emmanuelle Béart was born in Gassin on the French Riviera the daughter of Geneviève Galéa pseudonym of Geneviève Guillery a former model who is of Croatian Greek and Maltese descent and Guy Béart a singer and poet Her Egyptianborn fathers family was of Sephardic Jewish descent who sought refuge in Lebanon during his childhood She has a halfsister Ève born 1959 on her fathers side and six halfsiblings on her mothers side Ivan Sarah and Mikis Cerieix from her mothers relationship with JeanYves Cerieix and Olivier Guespin Lison and Charlotte from her mothers relationship with JeanJacques Guespin In her late teens she spent her summer vacation in Montreal with the Englishspeaking family of William Sofin a close friend of her father At the end of the summer the family invited her to stay with them and complete her baccalauréat at Collège International Marie de France They remained close friends Béart got an acting role in 1976 film Tomorrows Children In her teens she appeared in bit parts in television Upon graduating from the Collège International Marie de France in Montreal she returned to France to attend drama school in Paris A short time later she was cast in her first adult role in a film and in 1986 she achieved fame with her role opposite Yves Montand playing the avenging daughter in French hit Manon des Sources For her performance she won the 1987 César Award for Best Supporting Actress In the 1987 film Date with an Angel she starred as the Angel In 1995 she won the Silver St George award for Best Actress at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival for her starring role in film A French Woman In addition to her award for Best Supporting Actress she has also been nominated for another seven César Awards for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress Béart received Most Promising Actress nominations for A Strange Passion and Love on the Quiet followed by Best Actress nominations for Children of Chaos La Belle Noiseuse The Beautiful Troublemaker Un cœur en hiver A Heart in Winter Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud Nelly and Mr Arnaud and Les Destinées Sentimentales Sentimental Destinies In the 5 May 2003 issue of the French edition of Elle magazine Béart aged 39 appeared nude The entire run of 550000 copies sold out in just three days making it the biggestselling issue in the fashion glossys long history Source Article Emmanuelle Béart from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA