Biography of Emmanuelle Béart

Emmanuelle Béart is the daughter of french singer and poet Guy Béart and Italian-Greek mother, Geneviève Galea.

Born on the 14 August 1965 in St. Tropez, France. After her parents divorce she was raised by her mother in a remote mountain village in provence with her three brothers and her sister . As a teenager, left for Montreal. There she, apparently, met Robert Altman who encouraged her to become an actress. Although she even took a screen test for him, nothing came of it. She then attended a drama school in paris before being cast in Premiers désirs three months later.

She first became well known in Manon des Sources the sequel to Jean de Florette when she won Best Supporting Actress César. Emmanuelle has risen to great national and international fame as an actress not merely because of her beauty, she is also capable of deep emotional empathy with the character she is playing. Like many actresses she spends a long time preparing her characters, in Un Coeur en Hiver for instance she apparently practiced the violin every day for eighteen months.

Emmanuelle had a long 10 year relationship with Daniel Auteuil, her co-star in several films, they apparently married during the filming of Une Femme Francaise and separated soon after, I have been unable to confirm this marriage however. She has a daughter, Nelly (born April 18th 1992), by Auteuil, and a young son Johan (born March 1996) by her current boyfriend David Moreau (the half-brother of French actor Patrick Bruel). But she says her children will not interfere with her acting career: "For the moment, I just put them in a backpack and bring them along with me. I love the fact that they can travel with me. I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it."

One of her greatest irritations is the curiosity of the press: "It's madness. They follow me. I sue them. That's the deal. I have to admit that it's getting painful to stay polite... I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else."

She is also now an ambasador for UNICEF, and has been to Vietnam in that position.   She has also done other campagning on behalf of imigrants to France.  More information on this can be found in the news archive.

Her next film is Elephant Juice, which is currently filming in London (November 98) and will be her first ever British film and third English speaking film, according to one of the extras in the film, it will be released in the Summer of 1999.  She is also apparently involved in another film project but I have no information about it yet.   Her last films were Don Juan and Voleur de Vie, neither of which have yet come to the British/American cinema or video.

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