Audrey Tautou

Audrey Tautou was born in Beaumont in Puy-de-Domme France on 8 August 1976. She was eldest of four children. Her parents, both a dental dentist as well as a teacher, understood and supported their daughter's enthusiasm for acting and drama on the age of a stage novice. The support they provided was more than enough to overcome her original desire to become primatologist. It was a quick rise in her career to become an internationally renowned young actress. Before she began to pursue an acting career she took part in Jeunes Premiers which was a French talent search TV program sponsored by Canal+ in 1998. The program also awarded her the title of the title of Best Young Actress for the Beziers Festival of Young Actors. Tautou is a pupil of her school at the Institut Catholique de Paris in Paris as a child and was a student there from the age of a child she has since renounced her Catholic education. The actress claims to be a non-Catholic. Modeling and acting are interspersed. Tautou was the model for L'Oreal Mont Blanc Chanel, and is often referred to as The Chanel Muse. She also has a serious interest in photography and recently presented an exhibit of her work during the Arles Festival under the title Superficial. In her photographs, she focuses primarily on celebrity and fame. Cameras are focused towards journalists who scrutinized her as she rose to fame in Amelie. Audrey Tautou became a star after her international fame was established with her debut role as Amelie Poulain in the film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie. Amelie made international waves at the box office and also won numerous awards across the globe. It remains the highest grossing French language film in the US. The film's success brought Tautou into a wide range of roles, ranging from British dramas as Dirty Pretty Things by Stephen Knight and Jean Pierre Jeunet to Hollywood's The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks.