Audrey Tautou

Audrey Tautou is the youngest of four kids born August 9th, 1976 from Beaumont Puy in Domme. From a very young age, her dentist doctors parents and teacher mother supported Audrey's love of theater and drama. This passion that trumps her first desire to become a primatologist. A quick and successful start to success as well as a swift rise in fame marked her as a young actor. Following her graduation She was a part of the French television show that scouts talent Jeunes Premiers which was sponsored by Canal+. She won the Best Young Actress prize at the Beziers Festival of Young Actors in the year 2000. She then began a career as an actress. Though she was a student at the Institut Catholique de Paris and attended church in her youth Tautou has distanced herself from this upbringing, stating she's not Catholic. She pursued a modelling career in addition to her acting work and is the face of L'Oreal Mont Blanc and Chanel is often called the Chanel Muse. Apart from her acting work she also has an interest in photography. The actress recently showed some of her photographs during Arles Film Festival. Arles Film Festival, under the title Superficial. Her photography largely focuses on fame and celebrity and then turns her camera to the journalists who scrutinised her when she exploded to stardom with Amelie in addition to self-portraits. Audrey Tautou became a star after her international fame was established with her first role in Amelie Poulain from Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie. Amelie was a box-office international hit, receiving accolades at award ceremonies around all over the world. Amelie has been the most financially successful french-language film to hit the US. In the wake of this achievement, Tautou was featured in many film productions ranging from British dramatics like Stephen Knight's Dirty Pretty Things to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Un long Sunday de fiancailles, and then he moved into Hollywood through Ron Howard's direction of the Dan Brown bestseller The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks.