Audrey Tautou

Audrey Tautou, the oldest of four children, was born on August 8, 1976 in Beaumont Puy-de-Domme. She was encouraged by her parents, dentist, and a teacher and both of them were teachers. They encouraged her to follow her love of acting. This was in contrast to an earlier desire to become a primateologist because she adored monkeys. When she was a teenager the rise to fame was quick and accompanied by the beginning of her successes. When she first began her acting career, she was a participant in Jeunes Premiers which was a French talent search TV program sponsored by Canal+ in 1998. She also won Best Young Actress at the Beziers Festival of Young Actors. Tautou studied at Institut Catholique de Paris, was a churchgoer as a young girl and was raised Catholic. But she is now separating herself from the Catholic tradition. Alongside her acting career, Tautou took up modeling and was the face of L'Oreal Mont Blanc as well as Chanel. Also, she has an intense passion for photography. She recently produced an exhibition of her work at the Arles Festival with the name Superficial. Her photos are mostly about fame and celebrity. Also, they include self-portraits in addition. Audrey Tautou's very first major part, playing Amelie Poulain's lead actress in Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie, landed her fame to the world. Amelie is an international box office success and has been lauded at numerous award events around the globe. Amelie was the highest-rated french-language film to hit the US. The popularity of the film brought Tautou into a wide range of roles, including British dramas as Dirty Pretty Things by Stephen Knight and Jean Pierre Jeunet to Hollywood's The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks.