- Born
- Birth nameAudrey Justine Tautou
- Height5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
- Audrey Justine Tautou was born on August 9, 1976 in Beaumont, France,
to Evelyne Marie Laure (Nuret), a teacher, and Bernard Tautou, a dental
surgeon. Audrey showed an interest for comedy at an early age and
started her acting lessons at
'Cours
Florent'. In 1998 she won the best young actress award in the ninth
'Jeune Comedien de Cinema Festival' in Bezier. Then, she came to the
attention of Tonie Marshall
who gave her a role in her film
Venus Beauty Institute (1999)
for which she won a Best New Actress Cesar. It came as a surprise to
even Audrey: "I was so certain I could not be chosen that I told her
that she probably dialled a wrong number." The director chose her for
her natural nature: "She came, she gaffed, she turned reddish, her ears
were in a funny position and her hair was relaxed. In five minutes, she
gave me the heart of the character, a petite young girl who would like
to be a lady and will become a woman." In 2000, Audrey was again
nominated for a Cesar and her movie
Amélie (2001)
has been a phenomenal success worldwide.- IMDb Mini Biography By: AE < born2slippy@hotmail.com>
- ParentsBernard TautouEveline Tautou
- Her trademark brunette bob-tousled hair
- Coltish, gamine, doe-eyed ingénue look
- She takes pictures of her interviewers and puts them in scrapbook.
- Her parents named her after Audrey Hepburn.
- Is the face of Chanel n°5.
- Although invited, she did not plan on attending the private screening of
Amélie (2001) organized and
attended by President Jacques Chirac. She had a previous
engagement with her brother (he was sworn in as a policeman that day). Director Jeunet told the French president that she was in Portugal. When she finally showed up, Jacques Chirac told her he thought she was in Portugal; she simply answered "you'll have to check your sources". - When Emily Watson dropped out of Amélie (2001), director Jean-Pierre Jeunet cast Tautou after
seeing her on a billboard of the movie Venus Beauty Institute (1999) in Paris near his home
in Bastille.
- I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly
don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean. - I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always
play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like
that. I love being by myself. - I'm a tomb when it comes to my personal life. I never give even a mote
of dust of that away." - Hollywood doesn't need me. After 'Amélie,' I didn't get any offers
that interested me. I have very eclectic tastes, but it's important for
me that a movie be sensitive, clever and subtle. - Everyone thinks I have an ethnic origin, and could be from North
Africa or parts of Asia, or Italy and Spain. But, as far as I know, I'm
100-percent French.
- Delicacy (2011) - €768,410
- Beautiful Lies (2010) - €1,125,000
- Coco Before Chanel (2009) - €1,500,000
- Hunting and Gathering (2007) - €1,000,000
- A Very Long Engagement (2005) - €885,000
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