Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche mini-bio: Juliette Binoche was born in Paris on March 9 1964 to a sculptor father and an actress mother. At age 4 her parents were divorced and Binoche was dispatched to a boarding school with her sister Marion. She began acting in amateur stage productions, and at 17 she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugene Ionesco play, Le roi se meurt. The next year, she studied acting at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris. She found an agent through a friend, and joined a theatre troupe that toured France, Belgium and Switzerland under the pseudonym Juliette Adrienne. After graduation, she followed her mother's footsteps and became a stage actress, occasionally taking bit parts in French feature films. Her first screen role was a small part in the 1983 TV film Dorothée, danseuse de corde by Jacques Fensten followed by a small part in the provincial TV film Fort bloque by Pierrick Guinnard. Binoche secured her first big screen appearance in Pascal Kané's Algeria-themed ',Liberty Belle. At this point Binoche decided to pursue a career in cinema.

2007 will see Binoche appear in Ballon Rouge by the Chinese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Dan in Real Life with Steve Carrel, Paris by Cédric Klapisch. She is also due to film Désengagement by Amos Gitai, Souvenirs du Valois by Olivier Assayas and Rithy Panh's Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique.

Binoche is well known worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The English Patient (1996) and Chocolat (2000) as well as internationally successful arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue (1993) and Caché (2005). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1997 for The English Patient, becoming the second French actress to win an Oscar.

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