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 eight-time 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 Egyptian-born father's family was of Sephardic Jewish descent, who sought refuge in Lebanon during his childhood.
She has a half-sister, Ève (born 1959), on her father's side and six half-siblings on her mother's side; Ivan, Sarah and Mikis Cerieix from her mother's relationship with Jean-Yves Cerieix and Olivier Guespin, Lison and Charlotte from her mother's relationship with Jean-Jacques Guespin.
In her late teens, she spent her summer vacation in Montreal with the English-speaking 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 Tomorrow's 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 550,000 copies sold out in just three days, making it the biggest-selling issue in the fashion glossy's long history. ...
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Movies (85)
5H48, Place des Martyrs
2027 · Marilyne
Demande à la montagne
2027
A Political Consciousness
2026 · Self
Stereo Girls
2026 · Michèle
Terre, Les Forces du Vivant
2025 · Narrator & Voice over
Amélia Starlight
2024 · Amelia Starlight
Such a Resounding Silence
2023 · Self, Writer, Director
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2023
2023 · Emmanuelle Béart
The Passengers of the Night
2022 · Vanda Dorval
Margaux Hartmann
2020 · Margaux Hartmann
Wonders in the Suburbs
2020 · Emmanuelle Joly
Architecture
2019
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
2019 · Self - Actress
Beyond the Known World
2017 · Louise
Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
2015 · Self
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
My Mistress
2014 · Maggie
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
2014 · Iris Dupin
Electra, for Instance
2013 · Chrysothémis
The Rest of the World
2012 · Katia
Pirate TV
2012 · Patricia Gabriel
Bye Bye Blondie
2012 · Frances
The Desert of Love
2012 · Maria Cross
Ma compagne de nuit
2011 · Julia
The Great Restaurant II
2011 · The Cynical Friend
It Begins with the End
2010 · Gabrielle
Just The Three of Us
2010 · Marie, the mother
My Stars
2008 · Isabelle Séréna
Vinyan
2008 · Janet Belhmer
Disco
2008 · France
The Witnesses
2007 · Sarah
Family Hero
2006 · Léa O'Connor
A Crime
2006 · Alice Parker
Hell
2005 · Sophie
Jan Kounen - Intégrale courts métrages
2005
French Beauty
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005 · Emmanuelle Béart (uncredited)
The Art of Breaking Up
2005 · Lucette
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
2005 · Milady Winter
À boire
2004 · Inès Larue
Nathalie...
2004 · Nathalie / Marlène
The Story of Marie and Julien
2003 · Marie
Strayed
2003 · Odile
Overnight
2003 · Self
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Self
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002 · Self
Heart of the Festival
2002 · Self (archive footage)
8 Women
2002 · Louise
Replay
2001 · Nathalie
Fortune Tellers and Misfortune
2001 · Chantal
Sentimental Destinies
2000 · Pauline Pommerel
Season's Beatings
1999 · Sonia
Elephant Juice
1999 · Jules
Time Regained
1999 · Gilberte
Stolen Life
1998 · Alda
The Last Little Red Riding Hood
1998 · Le Chaperon Rouge
Don Juan
1998 · Elvire
Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
1997
Mission: Impossible
1996 · Claire
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995 · Nelly
A French Woman
1995 · Jeanne
Torment
1994 · Nelly
Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex
1994
Rupture(s)
1993 · Lucie
A Heart in Winter
1992 · Camille
La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
1992 · Marianne
Lest We Forget
1991 · Self (segment "Pour Nguyen Chi Thien, Vietnam")
I Don't Kiss
1991 · Ingrid
La Belle Noiseuse
1991 · Marianne
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
1990 · Isabella
Children of Chaos
1989 · Marie
Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
1988 · Éva
Date with an Angel
1987 · Angel
Manon of the Spring
1986 · Manon Cadoret
La répétition ou L'amour puni
1986 · Lucile
La Femme de sa vie
1986 · Justine
Love on the Quiet
1985 · Samantha Page, call girl
Raison perdue
1984 · Sonia Mornant
A Strange Passion
1984 · Constanza
First Desires
1983 · Hélène
Tomorrow's Children
1976 · Lila
And Hope to Die
1972 · Child (uncredited)
Le Courage des oiseaux
· Françoise
La Vraie vie
TV shows (12)
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Syndrome [E]
2022 · Commissioner Maïa Leclerc
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
2005 · Milady Winter
Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land
2004 · Self
The Apartment
2001 · Self - Guest
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self
Les Jupons de la révolution
1989 · Marie-Antoinette
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self
Victoires de la musique
1985 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Cérémonie des César
1976 · Self - Presenter
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self