Marion Cotillard was born September 30, 1975 in Paris of an actress mother and a father of actor, director and academic director of the Higher School of Dramatic Art. She has twin brothers 2 years younger than her, Quentin and Guillaume. After turning in the series Highlander and Untamed, she took her first steps in film series in the La Belle Verte but it is undoubtedly the film Taxi Luc Besson makes it famous and earned him a nomination at Caesars. The die is cast, the young woman then rotates in the Seagull then Lisa. Marion Cotillard played the main role of Pretty Things in 2001 and was again appointed to Cesar for Most Promising Actress.
In 2002, after completing the filming of Taxi 3, it no longer. wishes to be part of the team. A year later, thanks to Tim Burton and the film Big Fish, it became known across the Atlantic. The same year, it was alongside Guillaume Canet and in a very French movie she plays Sophie in Children's Games. The following year, she appeared in A Very Long Engagement and received the Cesar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 2007, she hits the headlines by playing the role of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose by Olivier Dahan, who quickly became a worldwide success. His fee to turn in La Vie en Rose totaled € 450 000. With this film, the young actress received over twenty awards notament Golden Globe, BAFTA, César, and the 2008 Oscar for Best Actress.
She is currently the only actress to have accumulated as much reward for the same role. In 2008, Bastien Duval directed the documentary My clown , which tracks Marion Cotillard in the year of the global promotion of La Vie en Rose. She also becomes the brand ambassador for Dior. Consequently, Hollywood holds out his arms and began a career there with the movie Public Enemies in 2009 alongside Johnny Depp, then in Nine with Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson and Penelope Cruz. She is back in France and played in The Last Flight alongside Guillaume Canet. It continues in its momentum and turns in Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio and then in Little White Lies directed by his companion Guillaume Canet.
In early 2010, she recorded a song, The Eyes of March, the campaign for Dior. The same year she turns in Contagion with Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Matt Damon and Paltrow Gwynet. In 2007, earnings are estimated at 1.15 million euros. THE THIRD is the highest paid actress in France, the first two being Mathilde Seigner and Nathalie Baye. In the Greenpeace environmental activist, she refused an advertising contract with L'Oreal which is on the blacklist of Greenpeace. She has also participated in the recording of the song Beds are Burning to mobilize the population in the Copenhagen summit in December 2009. Marion Cotillard, now in a relationship with Guillaume Canet in 2007, had a relationship with singer Sinclair then with actor Stephan Guerin-Tillié.
She now wants new projects such as becoming a mother. Marion Cotillard is an activist environmentalist of Greenpeace. She refuses such an advertising contract with L'Oreal , the cosmetics brand as is blacklisted by Greenpeace. In 2009, she participated in the recording of the song Beds are Burning, message from Kofi Annan for the ecology, to mobilize the population for the Copenhagen Summit held in December 2009. Marion went along with other activists from Greenpeace, to fight against the deforestation of the massive Congo Basin forest. She is also patron of the Foundation Maud Fontenoy, which aims to protect ocean environments. In October 2010, Marion finds in many colleges of Paris, accompanied by Maud Fontenoy and Borloo (then Minister of Ecology), to educate children about biodiversity and marine emergency protection.
It officially supports the Chief Raoni in its fight against the Belo Monte dam and sign his petition. She is also supports the association Wild-Touch sponsoring Forest of rain, a film project and " cross media "on the last major primary forests of the world and the dangers they face. In an interview broadcast on Paris Premiere on 16 February 2007, more than a year before she received her Oscar, Marion Cotillard wondered if the Americans really walked on the moon in the 1970s, questioned the circumstances the death of Coluche and denied the official version of the events of September 11, 2001.
Relayed in the international press, his words defrayal chronicle. Member of an association of victims of attacks on the World Trade Center, Pastor Robert Westman even demanded the withdrawal of the Oscar for the actress. Later, Marion Cotillard herself regretted his words. In 2000, she witnessed the defenestration of her boyfriend at the time, Julien Rassam, son of Claude Berri, after which it became a quadriplegic. Julien Rassam committed suicide Feb. 3, 2002, which ended in a "fusional love, intense and hard".
Subsequently she had a relationship with singer Sinclair and with actor Stephan Guerin-Tillié. Since 2007, she was the companion Guillaume Canet. The couple is still very discrete, appearing together on rare occasions. She expressed, in 2010 in the press, of its wish to become a mother. Marion Cotillard gave birth to a baby boy, named Marcel, 19 May 2011. In April 2012 she visited Florence Break in the women's prison Tepeplan in Mexico.