Profile: Audrey Tautou
Birth Date: August 9, 1978
Birth Place: Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Occpation: Actress
Height: 5' 4¼"
Quote: "I can walk around Paris, but there are always eyes looking at me. The difference is now there are people recognizing me. The change is brutal. I can't reverse it."
Quote: "I like the cloud of milk when you put it in tea, the smell of gasoline and lights through a windowpane. I don't like to receive a postcard and not recognize the signature. And I don't like a limp handshake or the smell of a cigar."
Audrey Tautou Biography
Earning effusive comparisons to another Audrey, sylph-like French actress Audrey Tautou became an international star with her performance as the eponymous do-gooder in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's romantic fable Amélie (2001).
Born in Beaumont, France, Tautou's childhood interest in monkeys led to plans to become a primatologist, but she found her true calling when she began to study acting in school. After graduation, Tautou found roles on French TV, and earned Canal+'s prize in 1999 for Best Newcomer. Moving to films, Tautou quickly made a mark with her performance as Natalie Baye's young co-worker in Venus Beauty Institute (1999) and earned the César for Best New Actress.
While Tautou worked steadily, playing a supporting role in the ribald Denis Diderot biopic Le Libertin (2000) and leads in Voyous Voyelle (2000) and Happenstance (2000), her appearance in Venus Beauty Institute proved to be even more pivotal beyond her César. After original choice Emily Watson bowed out, Jeunet was disconsolate about finding the right Amélie until he saw Tautou on the Venus Beauty Institute poster. Perfectly merging Tautou's elfin mien with the title character's impish ruses for bringing happiness to everyone around her, Amélie became a record-breaking sensation in France, with Tautou hailed as the heiress to Audrey Hepburn's inimitable charm. An art house success in America, Amélie garnered more praise for Tautou and a berth as one of Entertainment Weekly's Entertainers of the Year. While she heeded Jeunet's negative experience with Alien Resurrection (1997) and refused to cash in with a Hollywood blockbuster, the shakily bilingual Tautou subsequently took on her first English-language role in Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things (2002).
Audrey Tautou Filmography
Les Poupées russes (aka The Russian Dolls) (2005)--Martine
Un long dimanche de fiançailles (aka A Very Long Engagement) (2004)--Mathilde
Nowhere to Go But Up (2003)--Val Chipzik
Pas sur la bouche (aka Not On the Lips) (2003)--Huguette Verberie
Les Marins perdus (aka Lost Seamen) (2003)--Lalla
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)--Senay
L'Auberge espagnole (aka The Spanish Apartment) (2002)--Martine
À la folie... pas du tout (aka He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not) (2002)--Angélique
Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite (aka God Is Great, I'm Not) (2001)--Michèle
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (aka Amélie) (2001)--Amélie
Poulain
Le Battement d'ailes du papillon (aka Happenstance)(2000)--Irène
Le Libertin (aka The Libertine) (2000)--Julie d'Holbach
Voyous voyelles (aka The Little Grifters, aka Pretty Devils) (2000)--Anne-Sophie
Épouse-moi (aka Marry Me) (2000)--Marie-Ange
Triste à mourir (1999)--Caro
Vénus beauté (institut) (aka Venus Beauty Institute) (1999)--Marie
Le Boiteux: Baby blues (1999) (TV)--Blandine Piancet
La Vieille barrière (1998)--La jeune fille du quartier
Casting: Archi-dégueulasse (1998)--Comédienne 1
Chaos technique (1998) (TV)--Lisa
Bébés boum (1998) (TV)--Elsa
La Vérité est un vilain défaut (1997) (TV)--La standardiste
Coeur de cible (1996) (TV)
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