Audrey Tautou

Audrey Tautou in Beaumont Puy De Domme, France was born on the 9th of August in 1976. Audrey was the oldest child of four. She was encouraged by her parents, dentist and teacher and both of them were teachers. They encouraged her to follow her love of acting. This contrasted with her previous desire to become a primateologist because she loved monkeys. Early success and a rapid rise in fame marked her as a young actor. Before she began to pursue the acting profession, Tautou was a participant in Jeunes Premiers which was a French show on TV that focuses on talent that was sponsored by Canal+ in 1998. She also won The award for the Best Young Actress in the Beziers Festival of Young Actors. Though she was a student at in the Institut Catholique de Paris and went to church as a child, Tautou is now averse to this upbringing, stating that she is not officially Catholic. Alongside her acting work, she was also interested in modelling. The model was in the commercials for L'Oreal Mont Blanc, Chanel and was dubbed "The Chanel Muse". Her photography is also a obsession and she was recently shown her work in the Arles festival under the name Superficial. Her work focuses on celebrity as well as popularity. The exhibition also includes an assortment of self-portraits as well as a particular focus on the media that has been watching Tautou's career since her dramatic success after Amelie. Audrey Tautou's very first major performance, in the role of Amelie Poulain's leading actor in the film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain, brought her fame to the world. Amelie was an international box-office film that received acclaim during awards ceremonies across the globe. It's the biggest French film in the history of French language to be made on the US. The film's success has led to Tautou being cast in a range of roles, ranging from British dramas like Dirty Pretty Things by Stephen Knight and Jean Pierre Jeunet to Hollywood's The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks.