Juliette Binoche

Actor

Juliette Binoche, born on March 9, 1964, in Paris, is an internationally renowned French actress who has won awards such as an Oscar, a César, and a European Film Award. She won her first Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for The English Patient (1996, directed by Anthony Minghella), and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for Chocolat (2000, directed by Lasse Hallström). Other notable awards include the Palme d'Or for Certified Copy (2010, directed by Abbas Kiarostami), in which she also plays the lead role. In A MONKEY ON MY SHOULDER (2012, directed by Marion Laine), she plays a heart surgeon in a difficult romantic relationship. In The End of Summer (2008, directed by Olivier Assayas), she portrays an adult daughter who is confronted with family memories after the death of her mother. In My Beautiful Inner Sun (2017, directed by Claire Denis), she embodies the artist Isabelle, who questions love and acts with poetic lightness in a romantic comedy. In the Polish-French drama The Better Life (2011, directed by Małgorzata Szumowska), she plays a journalist who is confronted with existential questions.