September 30th, 2008 - Happy Birthday Marion Cotillard!

She is notable for becoming the first person to win an acting Academy Award for a French-language performance, as Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose.

She was also the first person to win an acting Academy Award for a French cinema film.

Cotillard began acting during her childhood, appearing on stage in one of her father’s plays. She was born in Paris and grew up around Orléans, Loiret in an artistically-inclined, “bustling, creative household”. Her father, Jean-Claude Cotillard, is an actor, teacher, former mime, and 2006 Molière Award-winning director of Breton descent. Her mother Niseema Theillaud, is also an actress and drama teacher. She has two younger twin brothers, Quentin and Guillaume.

Cotillard is currently in a relationship with French actor/director Guillaume Canet. They co-starred in the 2003 French film Love Me If You Dare. The couple’s relationship is widely reported in the French press, and they have been dubbed the French version of “Brangelina.” Despite this, many reports say the couple prefers to live a simple lifestyle, and they are often spotting in cafes and shopping together in Paris.

Cotillard is interested in environmental activism and has served as a spokesperson for Greenpeace allowing the organization to use her apartment to test products and being among the artists involved in “Dessins pour le climat” (Drawings for Climate), an album project that was released in 2005 and raised money for the environmental activist group.

She is a fan of Radiohead, of Canadian singer Hawksley Workman as well and she has appeared in two of his music videos, most notably “No Reason to Cry Out your Eyes (On the Highway Tonight)”. Workman even revealed in interviews about his last album Between The Beautifuls that he worked and wrote songs with Cotillard while they both were in Los Angeles during the movie awards season.

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