Juliette Binoche

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Birthday:

9 March 1964, Paris, France

Height:

168 cm

Juliette Binoche was born in Paris, France, to Monique Yvette Stalens, a director, teacher, and actress, and Jean-Marie Binoche, a sculptor, director, and actor. Her mother was born in Czestochowa, Poland, of French, Walloon Belgian, and Polish descent, while her father is French. Juliette was only 23 when she first attracted the attention of international film critics with The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times film critic with an international following of his books on film and TV reviews, wrote that she was "almost ethereal in her beauty and innocence". That innocence was gone by the time Binoche completed Louis Malle's Damage (1992) (aka "Fatale"). In an interview after the film was released, Binoche said: "Malle was trying direct and wanted something more sophisticated". A year later, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) was added to her film credits. After a sabbatical from film-making to become a mother in 1994, Binoche was selected as the heroine of France's most expensive ($35 million) movie ever: Le hussard sur le toit (1995). More recently, she has made The English Patient (1996), for which she won an Oscar for 'Best supporting actress' and Chocolat (2000). Show less «

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 ...Show more »

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. Show less «

When I returned to France after winning the Oscar, I was treated like royalty, or like a football hero!

Giving birth is like a vase of beautiful flowers. Only you're just the vase, and only for a very short moment. The flowers are beautiful, bu...Show more »

Giving birth is like a vase of beautiful flowers. Only you're just the vase, and only for a very short moment. The flowers are beautiful, but they belong to themselves, not to the vase. Show less «

"I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women".

"I knew I had become a star when I shook hands with Simone Signoret at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. She died four months later".

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

If a star is someone who gives light, then I can be a star. But if a star is someone who goes after money and magazine covers then it's sick...Show more »

If a star is someone who gives light, then I can be a star. But if a star is someone who goes after money and magazine covers then it's sick and I don't want it! Show less «

French women bloom at 40! I can't wait!

My earliest memory is loneliness. That's a hard thing to live with

I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said no. I j...Show more »

I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said no. I just didn't give an answer! Show less «

"Going to South Africa (Country of My Skull (2004)) has changed me utterly. I have seen and heard about acts of cruelty and hatred which are...Show more »

"Going to South Africa (Country of My Skull (2004)) has changed me utterly. I have seen and heard about acts of cruelty and hatred which are hard to comprehend. But I've also seen peace and tranquility like nowhere else on earth". Show less «

My real excitement comes when a movie transforms me. When you love the movie you've played in, you can make that bridge back to your own lif...Show more »

My real excitement comes when a movie transforms me. When you love the movie you've played in, you can make that bridge back to your own life. Show less «

[on working with a secret agent for Quelques jours en septembre (2006)] Of course he could not reveal everything to me, but he said a lot. S...Show more »

[on working with a secret agent for Quelques jours en septembre (2006)] Of course he could not reveal everything to me, but he said a lot. Some things I forgot because it was just too much. Certain things I was very amazed by and when I told people close to me about them they just wouldn't believe it. Everything in there is true. Show less «

The only way for me to stay young is to let go of youth. You cannot hang on to the past. You cannot try to be young when you're not young an...Show more »

The only way for me to stay young is to let go of youth. You cannot hang on to the past. You cannot try to be young when you're not young anymore. But the youth is within yourself. How do you renew yourself, how do you go to a new layer of yourself? That is the real youth. That is the renewance of yourself. Show less «