Emmanuelle Béart

Emmanuelle Béart’s film career began with Claude Berri’s Manon des Sources in 1986, followed by Jean de Florette. Her performance earned her the César Award for Best Supporting Actress. At the same time, she performed in theatre under the direction of Bernard Murat, Jean-Pierre Vincent, Jacques Weber and Luc Bondy. In the 1990s, she worked with major filmmakers such as André Téchiné (J’embrasse pas), Jacques Rivette (La Belle Noiseuse) and Claude Chabrol (L’Enfer). Claude Sautet offered her two major roles: a violinist in Un cœur en hiver (A Heart in Winter) – Silver Lion at Venice in 1992 – and a woman going through a divorce in Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (Nelly and Mr Arnaud) – Louis Delluc Prize in 1995.

After Une femme française (A French Woman) by Régis Wargnier, she broke into the international scene with Mission: Impossible by Brian De Palma (1995). She followed this with Les Enfants du désordre by Yannick Bellon, Un fil à la patte by Michel Deville, Le Temps retrouvé by Raoul Ruiz, La Bûche by Danièle Thompson, Les Destinées sentimentales by Olivier Assayas, La Répétition by Catherine Corsini and 8 femmes by François Ozon – Silver Bear collective award in Berlin.

Next came Les Égarés by André Téchiné, Histoire de Marie et Julien by Jacques Rivette, Nathalie… by Anne Fontaine, À boire by Marion Vernoux, Bye Bye Blondie by Virginie Despentes, My Mistress by Stephen Lance and Les Passagers de la nuit by Mikhaël Hers. An ambassador for the French Committee for UNICEF since 1995, she became a global ambassador in 2003. In 2023, she co-directed the documentary Un silence si bruyant with Anastasia Mikova, through which she hopes to lift the veil on incest.

This year, she stars in Les Immortelles by Caroline Deruas, which opened the 40th Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival, as well as in Et Après, the upcoming film by Pierre Menahem.