• Juliette Binoche is an Academy Award winning French actress. She studied acting at the National School of Dramatic Art in Paris and first earned recognition for playing a modernized version of the Virgin Mary in Jean-Luc Godard's controversial Je Vous Salue, Marie (Hail Mary).

  She gained international acclaim in The Unbearable Lightness of Being and won an Oscar for her role in The English Patient.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: March 9, 1964
  2. Birth Place: Paris, France
  3. Height: 5'6"
  4. Designs posters for many of her films
  5. Academy Awards: 1

• Notable Films

  1. 1988: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  2. 1992: Damage
  3. 1996: The English Patient
  4. 2000: Chocolat
  5. 2005: Bee Season
  6. 2006: Paris, je t'aime
  7. 2007: Dan in Real Life

• Quotes

  1. "When I returned to France after winning the Oscar, I was treated like royalty, or like a football hero!"
  2. "Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life...I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn."
  3. "French women bloom at 40! I can't wait!"
  4. "My earliest memory is loneliness. That's a hard thing to live with"

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