Marion Cotillard

If she had not been an actress, she would have liked to become a singer.

Her name is pronounced "mah-ree-ohn ko-tee-ar".

Had to learn how to sing in one month to play Marie in Les jolies choses . Also co-wrote and performed the song "La Fille de Joie" and performed the song "La Conne" for this film.

Her onscreen debut was in 1993 at the age of 17, in the Canadian TV Series "Highlander" . She had an uncredited cameo as the girl who gives birth in the episode 17 of Season 1: "Saving Grace". She then returned in the episode 21: "Nowhere to Run", as Lori Bellian. It was also her first English-speaking role.

Shes an ecologist. Member and Spokesperson for Greenpeace since 2002. She is also one of several actors, singers and designers involved in "Dessins pour le Climat" ("Drawings for the Climate"), a book of drawings originated by Greenpeace and Glnat, available for sale beginning April 2005 (all proceeds to go to Greenpeace).

Played Joan of Arc in the concert "Jeanne dArc au Bcher" (Joan of Arc at the Stake) several times: in 2005 in Orlans, France; in 2012 in Barcelona, Spain; in 2015 in Monaco, Toulouse and Paris, France and in New York. Her mother also played Joan of Arc in the same concert in 1992.

Born to Jean-Claude Cotillard , an actor and teacher, and his wife Niseema Theillaud , also an actress and drama teacher.

Has two younger brothers: Guillaume and Quentin, they are identical twins (born on 6 November 1977). Guillaume Cotillard , is a screenwriter and director and Quentin Cotillard works as a sculptor, living in San Francisco, California with his Irish-American wife Elaine OMalley Cotillard, a former Dutch National Ballet dancer and fashion designer.

She never had her ears pierced.

Grew up in Orlans and moved to Paris at the age of 16.

Cousin of Laurent Cotillard.

Is the Godmother of Costa Serena and inaugurated the ship in Marseille, France on May 19, 2007.

Best friends are Ccile Cassel , lodie Navarre , Mlanie Laurent , Geraldine Seguin and Gilles Lellouche.

Companion of her Jeux denfants co-star Guillaume Canet since October 2007. They met in 1997 but only grew closer 10 years later.

Having won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for La mme on 24 February 2008, she has become the second French actress to do so. The other one is Simone Signoret for Room at the Top . Claudette Colbert , who won in 1934 for It Happened One Night , was French-born, but raised in the U.S. and considered herself American. Cotillard is also the second French actress to win a BAFTA and an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the same performance. Simone Signoret was the first to win both awards with her performance in Room at the Top . Simone Signorets daughter, Catherine Allgret , portrayed dith Piaf s grandmother, Louise Gassion, in "La Vie en Rose".

Re-enacted the iconic shower scene of Psycho in a photoshoot for Vanity Fair in 2008. In the film, the scene was made by Janet Leigh , and Cotillard shares the same first name of Leighs character in "Psycho", who was called Marion Crane.

When she won the Csar Award for her performance in La mme , Alain Delon presented the award and announced the winner as "La Mme Marion" (The Kid Marion), he also praised her at the stage saying: "Marion, I give you this Csar. I think this Csar is for a great great actress, and I know what Im talking about".

First and so far the only artist to win a Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for a performance in the French language and is also the first leading lady to receive the Best Actress Oscar for a non-English speaking role since Sophia Loren in 1962 for La ciociara .

Is the fifth actress to win the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for portraying a female singer in a biography; the first being Luise Rainer as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld , followed by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl , Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miners Daughter and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line .

Is one of six performers to win an Oscar playing a character that mostly spoke in a foreign language. The others are Sophia Loren , Robert De Niro , Roberto Benigni , Benicio Del Toro and Christoph Waltz.

One of 105 people invited to join AMPAS in 2008.

Second French actress (after Stphane Audran in 1974) to win Best Leading Actress at BAFTA Film Awards since the integration of Best British Actress and Best Foreign Actress into one category: Best Actress/Best Leading Actress.

The dress she wore to the Academy Awards (where she won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar) was especially designed for her by Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Was considered for the role of Hanna Schmitz in The Reader after Nicole Kidman dropped out due to pregnancy. However the part eventually went to Kate Winslet. In 2009, Cotillard presented and gave the Academy Award for Best Actress to Kate Winslet for her performance in The Reader .

She was originally set for a role in Linstinct de mort .

Was in a relationship with French actor Julien Rassam in the late 90s until 2000. She had a long relationship with French actor Stphan Gurin-Tilli from 2000 to 2005 and was in a relationship with French singer Sinclair from 2005 to 2007.

When she won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar for La mme in 2008, the statuette was presented to her by former co-star in Mary , previous winner Forest Whitaker.

Announced that she and long-time boyfriend Guillaume Canet are expecting their first child together. [10 January 2011].

Ranked #48 in a 2011 study on the favorite celebrities of French kids aged 7 to 14, who gave her a grade of 6.21 on 10. The same study ranked her as the 53rd best-known celebrity by these kids, with 33.8% of the surveyed knowing her, either by name or by picture.

Was six months pregnant with her son Marcel when she completed filming on Contagion .

Gave birth to her son Marcel, with partner Guillaume Canet , in Paris (19 May 2011). Unlike many people assume, her sons name is not an homage to dith Piaf s lover, Marcel Cerdan. Cotillard later revealed that his name is actually an homage to a member of her family, Marcel Theillaud.

Was originally set to star in Cosmopolis but was replaced by Sarah Gadon after dropping out due to her pregnancy.

Was in consideration for the role of Ryan in Gravity but Sandra Bullock was cast instead.

Returned to work one month after giving birth to her son Marcel, to begin filming The Dark Knight Rises . Most of her scenes were pushed back a month and director Christopher Nolan made room on the set for Cotillards family. During an interview for Vogue in August 2012, Nolan marveled at Cotillards ability to do her job so soon after giving birth, calling it "amazing to see" and describing her as "Superwoman".

Ranked as having one of the most "Beautiful Famous Faces" by TC Candlers "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World" for 15 consecutive years. She was ranked #36 in 2016, #18 in 2015, #14 in 2014, #1 in 2013, #2 in 2012, #7 in 2011, #12 in 2010, #15 in 2009, #4 in 2008, #3 in 2007, #8 in 2006, #17 in 2005, #35 in 2004, #20 in 2003, and #31 in 2002.

Three of her films, Chlo , Jeux denfants and Inception have featured a song by dith Piaf. "La Vie en Rose" was used in "Chlo" and "Love Me If You Dare", and "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" plays in "Inception" - Marion won the Academy Award for Best Actress portraying Piaf in La mme .

Is one of 5 French actors to have won an Academy Award. The others in chronological order are: Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night , Simone Signoret for Room at the Top , Juliette Binoche for The English Patient and Jean Dujardin for The Artist (2011/I) .

Is one of 13 French actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination. The others in chronological order are: Claudette Colbert , Colette Marchand , Leslie Caron , Simone Signoret , Anouk Aime , Isabelle Adjani , Marie-Christine Barrault , Catherine Deneuve , Juliette Binoche , Brnice Bejo , Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.

Is a fan of "Game of Thrones" and of the British sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" .

Ranked on Askmens list of the "Top 99 Most Desirable Women". She was ranked #39 in 2013, #58 in 2011, #54 in 2010 and #87 in 2008.

Cotillard, Leonardo DiCaprio , Tilda Swinton , Emma Thompson , Tom Hanks , Daniel Brhl , Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams are the only actors to receive a Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Critics Choice Award nomination for the same performance and then fail to be Oscar-nominated for it: for their performances in De rouille et dos , The Departed , We Need to Talk About Kevin , Saving Mr. Banks , Captain Phillips , Rush (2013/I) , Nightcrawler and Arrival , respectively.

Was on the longlist for a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Inception in 2011 and for Midnight in Paris in 2012, but didnt make into the nominees.

Shes the face of French fashion house Dior since 2008 and stars in the ad campaigns for the Lady Dior Handbags since then. In 2011, she also starred in the campaign for the Miss Dior Handbag Fall/Winter 2011/2012. Her ads for Dior have been shot by acclaimed photographers such as Annie Leibovitz , Craig McDean , Steven Klein, Tim Walker, Mikael Jansson, Peter Lindbergh , Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Mert and Marcus. In 2012, Cotillard designed her own handbag for Lady Dior, the "360 Bag". In 2014, she composed a song, wrote, directed and starred in the music video Marion Cotillard: Enter The Game - Snapshot in LA , that was made especially for Dior.

Is a fan of Kate Winslet , Will Ferrell , Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill. During an interview at "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in 2012, Cotillard told that she would love to work with them in a comedy. In 2013, she had a cameo in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues , a comedy film starring Will Ferrell. Cotillard also wrote an open-ed for Variety praising Kate Winslet s performance in Labor Day .

Filmed The Dark Knight Rises in USA and De rouille et dos in France at the same time and few months after she gave birth to her son, Marcel. She was flying back and forth between USA and France to shoot both movies.

Was originally set to star in Le pass but was replaced by Brnice Bejo after dropping out due to scheduling conflicts with the promotion of De rouille et dos . If Cotillard had starred in the film, she would have played the mother of Pauline Burlet s character; Burlet played dith Piaf as a child in La mme , while Cotillard played Piaf as an adult in the same film.

Named Harvards Hasty Pudding Theatrical Woman of the Year in 2013.

Is a fan of David Bowie , Janis Joplin , The Rolling Stones , The Beatles , Otis Redding , Radiohead and Elvis Presley.

Wrote and performed the song "Lilys Body" for the fourth episode of the Lady Dior Web Documentary with the same title. An animated clip was made for the song, featuring an encounter between Cotillard and Christian Dior.

Starred in David Bowie s music video David Bowie: The Next Day alongside Gary Oldman , her co-star in The Dark Knight Rises .

Shares birthday with fellow actresses Deborah Kerr , Angie Dickinson , Monica Bellucci and actor Ezra Miller.

Sings under the pseudonym Simone in Maxim Nucci s band Yodelice. "Simone" is her grandmothers name. In 2010, Cotillard went on tour with the band in different cities in France and Belgium and sang few songs on the album "Cardioid". She also recorded the song "The Eyes of Mars" alongside Franz Ferdinand especially for Diors "Lady Rouge" campaign.

Time magazine ranked her performance as Luisa Contini in Nine as the fifth best performance by a female in 2009.

Ranked #13 on Empire Online list of the "100 Sexiest Movie Stars" in 2013.

She has appeared on more than 300 magazine covers around the world, including Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Variety, Harpers Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Madame Figaro, Glamour, W, The Hollywood Reporter and Wall Street Journal Magazine. She was also on the cover of the first issue of Dior Magazine in September 2012 and appeared in 3 covers of Vogue in August 2012 (USA, UK and France).

Was the Honorary President of the 35th Annual Csar Awards Ceremony in 2010.

Is a "injection-phobic" and stated that she wont have Botox, plastic surgery or anything else that you put inside yourself to look younger.

Was the first non-model on a Vogue Paris September cover in five years with her September 2010 cover.

Ranked #8 on Forbes list of Hollywoods Top Earning On-Screen Couples alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in 2012. They are the only couple from a non-franchise film: Inception , the film made $825 million at the global box-office.

In 2011 and 2012 respectively, she appeared on the top of Le Figaros list of the highest paid actors in France, it was the first time in nine years that a female has topped the list. She was also the highest paid foreign actress in Hollywood.

Received several honors, career tributes and "Actress of the Year" awards in 2012 at Hollywood Film Festival, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Telluride Film Festival, AFI Fest, Sant Jordi Awards, Irish Film and Television Awards, Hawaii International Film Festival and Harpers Bazaar Awards.

(October 2013) Beverly Hills, CA, USA: Attended Elles 20th Annual Women In Hollywood Celebration at Four Seasons Hotel, where she was honored.

Starred in three movies with Jrmie Renier : Cavalcade , Fair Play and Dikkenek .

On November 15, 2013, she caged herself near Pariss Louvre museum to demand the freeing of 30 Greenpeace activists jailed in Russia over an Arctic protest. She entered the cage and held a banner proclaiming: "I am a climate defender." A few days later, the activists were released.

Appeared in two films that made their world premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in the same week in 2013: Blood Ties (2013/I) and The Immigrant (in competition). It happened again in 2015 when The Little Prince and Macbeth (in competition) premiered with two days apart.

Starred in three movies with Benot Magimel : Lisa , Fair Play and Les petits mouchoirs .

Named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by Frances Cultural Minister Frederic Mitterand alongside Tim Burton who directed her in Big Fish (he was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters). Recipients of the order are honoured for their significant contribution to the enrichment of French culture. [15 March 2010].

Starred in three movies with Billy Crudup : Big Fish , Public Enemies and Blood Ties (2013/I) . When Cotillard was honored at Gotham Awards in 2012, Billy Crudup introduced her tribute.

Co-wrote and performed the song "The Strong Ones" alongside Hawksley Workman for Olivier Dahan s short film for Cartiers Love range. [2008].

She plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and tambourine. She learned how to play the piano at home when she was a kid and learned to play the cello for her role as a soloist in the film Toi et moi .

Starred in four movies with Gilles Lellouche : Boomer , Jeux denfants , Ma vie en lair and Les petits mouchoirs .

Was mentioned in "Glee" s Season 2, Episode 7: "The Substitute", when Kurt asks Blaine about their favorite 2010 Vogue cover and they say: "Marion Cotillard".

Ranked #2 of Vogues 10 Best Dressed of 2010.

Was chosen as one of the Best Dressed at Cannes Film Festival 2012 by Yahoo!.

Named "International Actor of the Year" at the Harpers Bazaar Women of the Year Awards for her performance in De rouille et dos . [October 31, 2012].

Named "Sexiest Woman In The World" by the Hungarian magazine Periodika in 2012.

Chosen as one of the Best Dressed of SAG Awards 2013 by Huffington Post.

Starred in three movies about physical disability: Du bleu jusquen Amrique , Cavalcade and De rouille et dos .

Started taking Danish lessons after having seen Festen , planned on meeting Thomas Vinterberg during the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 and also started learning Spanish after having seen Los amantes del Crculo Polar by Julio Medem.

She and Adrien Brody are the only actors to win both a Csar and an Oscar for the same performance. Cotillard won both awards in 2008 for La mme and Brody won in 2003 for The Pianist .

Has worked with Guillaume Canet in four movies. Two as co-stars: Jeux denfants and Le dernier vol and starred in two movies directed by him: Les petits mouchoirs and Blood Ties (2013/I) .

Being a huge fan of Canadian singer Hawksley Workman , she starred in two of his clips.

For her performance in La mme , she became the first actress to win a BAFTA and a Csar award for the same performance, the second is Emmanuelle Riva for Amour .

She is the first non-Czech actress to win the Czech Lion for Best Actress for her performance in La mme .

Loving her job she nurtured her need for cinematic culture by going to the Cinematheque.

Her father, Jean-Claude Cotillard , played the mime in each episode of the popular PBS series "French in Action" .

Named "Woman of the Decade" by Vogue Paris list of the "40 Women of The Decade". [2010].

She and Guillaume Canet were ranked Frances third Most Popular Couple by a Harris Interactive poll for Gala magazine. [August 2012].

First and so far the only actress to be nominated for a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for two performances in the French language: La mme and De rouille et dos . She is also the only actor to be nominated twice for non-English speaking performances.

Has played two characters of Polish origin. First in 2003 as the daughter of Polish immigrants Sophie Kowalsky in Jeux denfants and 10 years later, she played the Polish immigrant Ewa Cybulska in The Immigrant .

Starred in 2 films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in two consecutive years: Inception and Midnight in Paris .

Travelled to Congo with Greenpeace to visit the tropical rainforests that are being destroyed by logging companies. It was shown in the documentary The Congolese Rainforests: Living on Borrowed Time . [2010].

Designed her own doll for UNICEF France campaign "Les Frimousses Font Leur Cinma", that was sold to help vaccinate thousands of children in Darfur. [2010].

Patron of Maud Fontenoy Foundation, an non-governmental organization which is dedicated to programmes that teach children about preserving the vital heritage the oceans represent.

In 2012, she was featured on Kate Winslet s book "The Golden Hat: Talking Back To Autism", with celebrity self-portraits to raise awareness and support for autism.

Chosen as one of the Best Dressed of Cannes Film Festival 2013 by Vogue.

Appeared in five films that are on the Top 100 of the highest-grossing French films of all time in France, as of 2014. In chronological order: Taxi at #48, Taxi 2 at #9, Taxi 3 at #57, La mme at #93 and Les petits mouchoirs at #80.

Named Best Dressed Star of 2013 by Grazia Daily.

Starred in 3 films where her character was named Marie: Les jolies choses , Le dernier vol and Les petits mouchoirs .

Ranked #12 on Slates list of the "100 Most Influential Women of France". [2013].

Was the 132nd actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for La mme at The 80th Annual Academy Awards on February 24, 2008.

Filmed four movies at the same time in 2004, one of them is Edy .

Starred in three movies with Julie Depardieu : Un long dimanche de fianailles , Sauf le respect que je vous dois and Toi et moi .

She hates filming scenes, but stated that the first and only time that she liked filming sex scenes was in De rouille et dos , with Matthias Schoenaerts , because it was a special moment for her character, who was having sex for the first time after she lost her legs.

Appeared in 6 movies that were released in 2005: Cavalcade , Ma vie en lair , Mary , Sauf le respect que je vous dois , La bote noire and Edy .

Starred in three movies with lodie Navarre : Le marquis , Jeux denfants and Cavalcade .

Has a look-alike puppet in the French show "Les guignols de linfo" .

When she was honored at Hollywood Film Festival in 2012, Joseph Gordon-Levitt presented the tribute to her in French, her native language. Cotillard and Levitt were co-stars in Inception and The Dark Knight Rises .

After starring together in De rouille et dos , she recommended Matthias Schoenaerts for a role in her boyfriends Guillaume Canet directorial-debut in Hollywood, Blood Ties (2013/I) . Canet told that he chose Schoenaerts after hearing Cotillard praising his acting several times.

Starred in two films directed by Christopher Nolan : Inception and The Dark Knight Rises . In both films she stabs someone.

She was one of the two French actresses who starred in French-language films to be nominated for a BAFTA award for Best Leading Actress in 2013, with her performance in De rouille et dos , the other was Emmanuelle Riva for her performance in Amour . It was the first time in the history of BAFTA that two French-language performances were nominated in the Best Actress category.

Learned to speak her Polish dialogue (20 pages) in The Immigrant in only two months.

Became a member of the Association for the Promotion of Cinema (APC), which governs the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques, the group that votes on the Csar Awards. [July 2013].

Her favorite films are: The Great Dictator , Its a Wonderful Life , Soy Cuba , The Party , The Elephant Man , Le roi et loiseau and Tandem .

Planned to star and produce a film entitled "Second Coming", directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain and with Mark Ruffalo , Ethan Hawke , Anjelica Huston and Thandie Newton in the cast. The project found a financier in 2010 but never happened.

In 2011, Warner Bros. offered her the role of Morgana in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword with David Dobkin attached to direct, but the project was cancelled over budgetary concerns.

Shes a locavore, where possible, she eats locally produced food and has been recycling since the 80s, a habit learned from her Breton grandmother (Marions paternal grandparents were both Breton).

Is a fan of Greta Garbo , Romy Schneider , Juliette Binoche , Toni Collette , Peter Sellers , Charles Chaplin and Sir Laurence Olivier.

Member of the jury of the 13th Marrakech Film Festival that was presided by Martin Scorsese. [November-December, 2013].

Named "The Most Beautiful Face of 2013" by TC Candlers list of the "100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World". [December 2013].

Was considered for the role of Sylvie in 3 coeurs .

Is the owner of two restaurants in France: Jaja and Glou.

Directors Jacques Audiard and James Gray have compared her to actress Maria Falconetti. Falconetti played Joan of Arc in La passion de Jeanne dArc and Cotillard played the character in the oratorio "Jeanne dArc au Bcher".

Turned down a role in Bel Ami . When Robert Pattinson met Cotillard in Cannes and told her he was doing a film of Guy de Maupassant s classic French novel, she expressed bemusement: "But why make it in English?".

Was the first person to wear Chopards Green Carpet Collection jewels at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Director James Gray who directed her in The Immigrant , stated that Cotillard is the best actor he ever worked with. Gray wrote the character Ewa Cybulska especially for her.

Ranked #68 on Total Films Top 200 Performances of All Time for her performance in La mme . [2013].

Brazilian brand Chara Rial named a shoe after her. [2014].

Chosen as one of the Best Film Femme Fatales by Harpers Bazaar for her performance as Mal in Inception . [March 2014].

Accepted to star in Deux jours, une nuit without seing the script. Cotillard is one of only three non-Belgian actors to lead a movie directed by Belgian directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne since Je pense vous , the other two being Arta Dobroshi in Le silence de Lorna and Adle Haenel in La fille inconnue . She was cast after they met her on the set of De rouille et dos , which they co-produced.

Was director Benot Jacquot s original choice to play Celestine in Journal dune femme de chambre , but dropped out. If she had starred in the film, it would have been the second time that she would have played a character that was played by Jeanne Moreau. Cotillard played the younger version of Moreaus character in Lisa and Moreau played Celestine in Le journal dune femme de chambre .

Was considered for the female lead of Burnt .

Named "The Most Bankable French Actress of the 21st Century" in 2014. Her films have sold more than 38 million tickets in France from 2001 to 2014 and have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide.

Was considered to play Eleonora Duse in The Rivals (????) , a biopic about the rivalry between Duse and Sarah Bernhardt.

As a big fan of Tim Burton , Cotillard slept with the script of Big Fish under her pillow for a month to hopefully help her chances to work with him.

For 3 consecutive years, her films premiered at the Toronto Film Festival: De rouille et dos in 2012, Blood Ties (2013/I) in 2013 and Deux jours, une nuit in 2014.

Attended Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Inaugurational Gala. [July 27, 2014].

Supports amfAR Cinema Against AIDS and attends its gala every year since 2009.

In 2014, Robbie Collin from The Daily Telegraph named her "the great silent film actress of our time", for her ability to show emotions only with her eyes and facial expressions, although she never appeared in a silent film.

Cotillard and Isabelle Adjani are the only French actresses to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Adjani won in 1975 for Lhistoire dAdle H. , while Cotillard was awarded for her performances in The Immigrant and Deux jours, une nuit in 2014 (the award was given to her by Jake Gyllenhaal ). Cotillard was the first actress to win a NYFCC Award and miss a Golden Globe nomination for the same performance since 1995, when Jennifer Jason Leigh won this award for Georgia .

Ranked #4 on Time Magazines Top 10 Best Movie Performances of 2014, for her performances in The Immigrant and Deux jours, une nuit .

Achieved the Trifecta of the major critics awards: she won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for La mme , the New York Film Critics Circle and National Society of Film Critics for The Immigrant and Deux jours, une nuit .

Ranked #18 on British GQ Magazine "The Worlds 20 Coolest Women" in 2014.

Is one of 6 performers with multiple Oscar nominations for foreign language films; the others are Marcello Mastroianni for Divorzio allitaliana , Una giornata particolare and Oci ciornie (Italian), Sophia Loren for La ciociara and Matrimonio allitaliana (Italian), Liv Ullmann for Utvandrarna and Ansikte mot ansikte (Swedish), Isabelle Adjani for Lhistoire dAdle H. and Camille Claudel (French), and Javier Bardem for Before Night Falls and Biutiful (Spanish). Cotillard was nominated for her performances in La mme (for which she won) and Deux jours, une nuit (French). Cotillard and Loren are the only actresses to win a Best Actress Oscar for a foreign-language film, they also appeared together in the film Nine .

Expressed her desire to work with Meryl Streep during an interview to Larry King in 2015.

Is one of 14 actresses to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for the same performance; hers being for La mme . The others, in chronological order, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday , Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins , Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl , Liza Minnelli for Cabaret , Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class , Diane Keaton for Annie Hall , Sissy Spacek for Coal Miners Daughter , Cher for Moonstruck , Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy , Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets , Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love , Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line , and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook .

The Dardenne brothers (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne ) revealed to Variety in 2015 that they were planning to do La fille inconnue with Cotillard as the lead doctor, but it didnt work out, so they decided to do Deux jours, une nuit with her instead.

Was one of the presenters of the 87th Academy Awards, in which she introduced the song "Everything is Awesome" from The LEGO Movie . dith Piaf s song "La vie en Rose" from Cotillards Oscar-winning film La mme , was playing in the background when she hit the stage. [February 22, 2015].

For 5 consecutive years, she starred in movies that were screened in the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival: De rouille et dos (in 2012), The Immigrant (in 2013), Deux jours, une nuit (in 2014), Macbeth (in 2015), Mal de pierres and Juste la fin du monde (both in 2016).

Was considered for the role of Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl in 2010. Had she starred in the film, she would have played opposite Matthias Schoenaerts , her co-star and love interest in De rouille et dos .

Was mentioned on Jodie Foster s Golden Globes speech in 2013. Foster said: "[...] But now Im told, apparently, that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show. You know, you guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child. No, Im sorry, thats just not me. It never was and it never will be. Please dont cry because my reality show would be so boring. I would have to make out with Marion Cotillard or Id have to spank Daniel Craigs bottom just to stay on the air. Its not bad work if you can get it, though.".

Travelled to Philippines with Frances President Franois Hollande and actors Mlanie Laurent and Jeremy Irons to highlight the fight against climate change and convene a forum intended to encourage faster and more determined action on the global challenge of climate change. [February 26, 2015].

Designed her own jewellery for Chopard, a bracelet and a necklace. She created the first "green" offering for the house, using ethically sourced coloured gemstones. Cotillard wore the handpiece that she designed featuring opals and diamonds connected to a ring by a chain during the Cannes premiere of The Little Prince on May 22, 2015.

Cecily Strong has impersonated Cotillard twice on "Saturday Night Live" , in 2015 and 2016.

Her character in Nine , Luisa, is half-French and half-Italian. In 8 , the character was played by French actress Anouk Aime. Aime is the first actress to be nominated for an Oscar for a French-speaking role ( Un homme et une femme ), while Cotillard is the first and only actress to win an Oscar for a French-speaking role ( La mme ).

Was considered for the role of Michelle in Elle . Isabelle Huppert was cast instead.

Introduced alongside her Macbeth co-star, Michael Fassbender , a Banksy painting donated by Leonardo DiCaprio for the amfAR Gala charity auction in Cannes, where it fetched $1 million. [May 21, 2015].

Her co-star in De rouille et dos , Matthias Schoenaerts , played The Little Prince on stage in Belgium when he was 9 years old. In 2015, Cotillard voiced The Rose in The Little Prince .

Directors Alexander Payne and Pedro Almodvar have expressed their desire to work with Cotillard.

During the press conference of Macbeth at the Cannes Film Festival, her co-star Michael Fassbender stated that Cotillard is the best actress in the business. [May 23, 2015].

Mentioned on "The Office" Season 8, Episode 11: "Trivia". Kevin knows that the answer to the final trivia question is the 2001 French film Les jolies choses , because Cotillard "exposes herself a number of times".

Was considered for the role of Fantine in Les Misrables .

The Oscar and Csar awards that she won for La mme , were exposed during an exhibition to celebrate dith Piaf s centenary at the Bibliothque Nationale de France in Paris, in 2015.

Lady Macbeth (the character she played in Macbeth ), is often referred to as "Lady M". This was also Cotillards nickname for the launch of a online web documentary released by Dior in 2012, Lady Dior Web Documentary .

Has appeared opposite two actors who played Magneto in the X-Men franchise. She starred opposite Ian McKellen in the short film Lady Grey London and with Michael Fassbender in Macbeth .

Cotillard and her Nine co-star Judi Dench , have both played Lady Macbeth. Dench on stage in the 70s and Cotillard in the 2015 film adaptation, Macbeth . During an interview to AOL Build in 2015, Cotillard stated that Judi Dench is her favorite Lady Macbeth. Dench performed Macbeth opposite Ian McKellen as the title character. McKellen starred opposite Cotillard in the short film Lady Grey London .

A sample of Leonardo DiCaprio and Cotillards dialogue in the train scene from Inception ("Youre waiting for a train..."), is featured on the song "Far Away" by nExow at minute 03:28.

Has dubbed in French all of her English-language roles since Big Fish .

Was mentioned in the TV series "Entourage" , in the episode where Vincent plays the lead role in a biopic of Enzo Ferrari directed by Frank Darabont , in which he co-starred alongside Al Pacino and Cotillard.

The dresses she wore at the New York premiere of The Dark Knight Rises and at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards, were especially designed for her by Dior.

Lived in New York for 6 months in 2012 while she was shooting The Immigrant and Blood Ties (2013/I) .

Was set to star alongside Romain Duris in the 2011 French action film "Vivre, cest mieux que mourir", directed by Pascal Chaumeil , but the film was never shot.

Has expressed her desire to play a man, citing what Cate Blanchett did in Im Not There. .

Brought up her make up artist Christopher Danchaud and her friend Geraldine Seguin as her dates for the 2015 Academy Awards.

Counts Fantasia and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial among the first films to really make an impression on her.

Is often referred to by the media as "The French Mermaid" or "La Sirne Franaise".

Was the 5th French actress (out of 7) to be nominated for an Academy Award for a French-language performance. The others in chronological order are Anouk Aime , Isabelle Adjani , Marie-Christine Barrault , Catherine Deneuve , Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.

Oscar winner producer David Puttnam told Irish Times in October 2015 that Cotillard is on his wishlist to star in the film Arctic 30 (????) .

Was 3 months pregnant with her daughter when she completed filming Les fantmes dIsmal .

Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 41, a daughter named Louise, on March 16, 2017. Childs father is her boyfriend, Guillaume Canet.

Her favorite indie film is Hedwig and the Angry Inch . Cotillard worked with the films director, John Cameron Mitchell , in two short films for Dior ( L.A.dy Dior and Lady Grey London ), and together they composed the song "Snapshot in LA" in 2014.

Favorite music artists include Swedish singer Lykke Li and British electronic band Metronomy.

Cotillard, Isabelle Adjani and Isabelle Huppert are the only actresses to have been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for a French-speaking role without the film receiving other nominations.

[on accepting the best actress Oscar for La mme (2007) (aka "La,Vie en Rose")] Thank you life, thank you love, and - it is true - there,[are] some angels in this city [Los Angeles].

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy,theory.

[on extreme characters] I do like extreme characters, but I think they,are extreme because they are full of passion - they are rich inside.

[on the beginning of her career as a child] I started in musicals when I,was very young. Both my parents are stage actors, and I was fascinated,by their jobs. My father was a mime. When I was 5, a director friend of,my family put me in his movie. I played a little girl with a dog, but I,remember my scenes and I was entranced by acting. It was a dream to me,- the passion of the profession was contagious.

The first English-language movie I saw might have been,E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) . I remember I was so into it,I cried so loud that the audience around me wanted to take me out of,the theater.

[on beauty] I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To,me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

[on her voice in Polish in The Immigrant (2013) ] Language is part,of a whole. I like creating characters who have their own approach,their own body language, their own voice. Learning a language helps to,build something different. I play a Polish woman in the film, so I had,to speak Polish fluently, with a Polish accent. I understood that, in,order to speak correctly, I had to sink into the Polish culture. I had,the same experience with English and Italian. Culture enriches language,and vice versa.

I know now that I have this career for two major reasons: First,because it allows me to take such pleasure in work that I happen to be,overwhelmed with happiness while acting. And second, because this job,puts me the most in danger in relation to my emotional past.

More and more I love being myself, but I love this work of totally,changing personalities.

[on why she thinks so many actors succumb to alcohol and drugs] Actors,are fragile creatures. The wider the gap, the more vulnerable we are.

I always wanted to express myself by being someone other than myself.

It is much easier for me to understand something vast and complex than,something light and uncomplicated. Perhaps that makes me very French.

I think that when you discover something that was unknown before, it,opens your mind, your heart. Roles after roles, I learned a little more,about human beings. I want to go as deep as I can in a character.

When I began working in the U. S.

My family, when I was a kid, was different from the other families,because my parents are artists but we lived in this down to earth,world.

[on Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) ] One of the most beautiful,and moving films about life, rock, heroes, struggle, men, women, humor,and love.

As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical. . . I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.