Juliette Binoche
- Actress
- Art Department
- Additional Crew
Juliette Binoche was born in Paris, France, to Monique Yvette Stalens,
a director, teacher, and actress, and Jean-Marie Binoche, a sculptor,
director, and actor. Her mother was born in Czestochowa, Poland, of
French, Walloon Belgian, and Polish descent, while her father is
French. Juliette was only 23 when she first attracted the attention of
international film critics with
L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être (1988).
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times film critic
with an international following of his books on film and TV reviews,
wrote that she was "almost ethereal in her beauty and innocence". That
innocence was gone by the time Binoche completed
Louis Malle's
Fatale (1992) (aka "Fatale"). In an
interview after the film was released, Binoche said: "Malle was trying
direct and wanted something more sophisticated". A year later,
Krzysztof Kieslowski's
Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)
was added to her film credits. After a sabbatical from film-making to
become a mother in 1994, Binoche was selected as the heroine of
France's most expensive ($35 million) movie ever:
Le hussard sur le toit (1995).
More recently, she has made
Le patient anglais (1996),
for which she won an Oscar for 'Best supporting actress' and
Le chocolat (2000).
