Sophie Marceau..still attractive!

Sophie Marceau..still attractive!

Sophie Marceau ( born 17 November 1966) is a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 38 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L’Étudiante (1988), Pacific Palisades (1990), Fanfan (1993), and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994). Marceau became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart (1995), Firelight (1997), and the James Bond thriller The World Is Not Enough (1999).Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu was born 17 November 1966 in Paris, the second child of Simone (née Morisset), a shop assistant, and Benoît Maupu, a truck driver. Her parents divorced when she was nine years old.In February 1980, Marceau and her mother came across a model agency looking for teenagers. Marceau had photos taken at the agency, but did not think anything would come of it. At the same time, Françoise Menidrey, the casting director for Claude Pinoteau’s La Boum (1980), asked modeling agencies to recommend a new teenager for the project. After viewing the rushes, Alain Poiré, the director of the Gaumont Film Company, signed Marceau to a long-term contract. La Boum was a hit movie, not only in France, where 4,378,500 tickets were sold, but several other European countries. In 1981, Marceau made her singing debut with French singer François Valéry on record “Dream in Blue”, written by Pierre Delanoë.

In 1982, at the age of 15, Marceau bought back her contract with Gaumont for one million French francs. She borrowed most of the money. After starring in the sequel film La Boum 2 (1982), Marceau focused on more dramatic roles, including the historical drama Fort Saganne in 1984 with Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, Joyeuses Pâques (Happy Easter) in 1984, L’amour braque and Police in 1985, and Descente aux enfers (Descent Into Hell) in 1986. In 1988, she starred in L’Étudiante (The Student) and the historical adventure film Chouans!. That year, Marceau was named Best Romantic Actress at the International Festival of Romantic Movies for her role in Chouans!Marceau at the César Awards, 1996.In 1989, Marceau starred in My Nights Are More Beautiful than your Days (Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours), which was directed by her long-time boyfriend Andrzej Zulawski. In 1990, she starred in Pacific Palisades and La note bleue, her third film directed by her companion. In 1991, she ventured into the theater in Eurydice, which earned Marceau the Moliere Award for Best Female Newcomer. Throughout the 1990s, Marceau began making less-dramatic films, such as the comedy Fanfan in 1993 and Revenge of the Musketeers (La fille de d’Artagnan) in 1994—both popular in Europe and abroad. That year, she returned to the theatre as Eliza Dolittle in Pygmalion. In France, they have “surveys” where men are asked which celebrity they would most want to sleep with. For a while, Sophie Marceau was the reigning champion (we assume the baton has been passed to Laetitia Casta). That says it all about her sex appeal.Like we alluded to earlier, in France she is the equivalent of Julia Roberts, but without the $20 million paychecks and the $100 million grossing movies.
She has appeared in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Lost and Found with David Spade among her more commercial films.
She has also won a Cesar, the French equivalent of the Oscar (though the French refer to the Oscar as the American equivalent of the Cesar) and has worked with all the major stars of French films including Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve.

Sophie was honored with the Cesar (French Oscar) for Most Promising Actress, in 1983. Legally tied to her contract with Gaumont, the movie studio she had worked with, Sophie paid one million French francs to buy back her contract when she was 16 years old — of course, she had to borrow the money to pay the large sum, but it was worth it for a newly independent Sophie.Sophie then broke away from the mold of a teenage star and moved onto more dramatic parts, in films such as 1984’s Fort Saganne, and Joyeuse Pâques (Happy Easter); 1985’s L’Amour Braque (directed by her long-time boyfriend, Andrzej Zulawski) and Police; 1986’s Descente aux Enfers (Descent Into Hell); 1988’s L’Etudiante (The Student) and Chouans!; and 1989’s Mes Nuits Sont Plus Belles Que Vos Jours (My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days), also directed by Andrzej Zulawski.Thanks to her role in Chouans!, she was named Best Romantic Actress at the 1988 International Festival of Romantic Movies.After a role in Pacific Palisades in 1990 and La Note Bleue, her third film by her companion, Sophie opted for lighter, fluffier roles, such as the comedy Fanfan in 1993 and La Fille de D’Artagnan a year later.

She even ventured into theater with her role in Eurydice in 1991, which garnered her a Marceau a Moliere Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She took to the stage again in 1994, as Eliza Dolittle in Pygmalion.But it was her role as Princess Isabelle in the Oscar-winning epic, Braveheart, that made international audiences take notice of the French beauty. Mel Gibson immediately knew that Sophie was the one for the part, and moviegoers agreed that she added beauty to what was already an excellent, yet gory script.The same year that Braveheart madness was in the air, Sophie went behind the camera for a 9-minute film, L’Aube a L’envers, which opened for a film at the Cannes Film Festival.While Sophie tries to stay away from the Hollywood scene and not get caught up in the circuit, she has an impressive resume of American films such as her co-starring role in the David Spade comedy, Lost & Found and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, along with Michelle Pfeiffer and Calista Flockhart.In 1999, she jumped to Bond Girl status as Elektra King, starring opposite Pierce Brosnan in the 19th Bond outing, The World Is Not Enough. Since her Bond fame, Sophie has starred in the French films La Fidélité, again under the direction of Zulawski and Belphégor — Le Fantôme Du Louvre.An animal lover, Sophie avidly and publicly protests sports such as dove-shooting and bullfighting, and supports Arc-en-Ciel, an organization that helps sick children.While family and friends refer to Sophie as Flatfoosie, she’s known as mom to her son Vincent (with husband Andrzej Zulawski), born July 1995.

Marceau achieved international recognition in 1995 playing the role of Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart. That year, she was part of an ensemble of international actors in the French film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders, Beyond the Clouds. In 1997, she continued her string of successful films with William Nicholson’s Firelight, filmed in England, Véra Belmont’s Marquise, filmed in France, and Bernard Rose’s Anna Karenina. In 1999, she played Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the villainess Bond girl Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough. In 2000, Marceau teamed up again with her then-boyfriend Andrzej Zulawski to film Fidelity, playing the role of a talented photographer who takes a job at a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children’s book publisher.[8]
In recent years, Marceau has continued to appear a wide variety of roles, mainly in French films, playing a windowed nurse in Nelly (À ce soir) in 2004, an undercover police agent in Anthony Zimmer in 2005, and the troubled daughter of a murdered film star in Trivial in 2007. In 2008, Marceau played a member of the French Resistance movement in Female Agents, and a struggling single mother in LOL (Laughing Out Loud). In 2009, she teamed up with Monica Belucci in Don’t Look Back about the mysterious connection between two women who’ve never met. In 2010, Marceau played a successful business executive forced to confront her unhappy childhood in With Love… from the Age of Reason (L’âge de raison).In 2012, Marceau played a forty-something career woman who falls in love with a young jazz musician in Happiness Never Comes Alone. In 2013, she appeared in Arrêtez-moi (Stop Me) as a woman who shows up at a police station and confesses to the murder of her abusive husband several years.