--- name: "Marie Gillain" canonical: "https://film.one/person/marie-gillain" fi1m_id: "marie-gillain" imdb_id: "nm0002100" tmdb_id: 54227 wikidata_id: "Q288318" roles: ["Actor"] born: "18 June 1975" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-01T20:43:20.275089+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Marie Gillain ## Identity Marie Gillain - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marie-gillain - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** marie-gillain - **IMDb ID:** nm0002100 - **TMDB ID:** 54227 - **Wikidata ID:** Q288318 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Gillain, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288318, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54227 Actor. Born 18 June 1975 in Liège, Belgium. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 18 June 1975, Liège, Belgium - **Also known as:** マリー・ジラン - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Gillain, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288318, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54227 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*Coco Before Chanel*](https://film.one/film/coco-before-chanel.md) (60) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Marie Gillain is a Belgian actress. Born on 18 June 1975 in Liège, she began acting as a teenager after training in amateur theatre in Liège and auditioning for Jean-Jacques Annaud's *The Lover* (1992). She was first noticed at 16 for her role as Véronique Arnel in *My Father the Hero* (1991), which brought a César nomination for most promising actress. Her performance in *Fresh Bait* (1995) earned further César recognition and the Romy-Schneider Prize in 1996. Gillain has appeared in films including *On Guard* (1997), *Female Agents* (2008) and *Coco Before Chanel* (2009), in which she played Adrienne Chanel. She has also worked extensively in theatre, receiving Molière Award nominations and a win in 2015, and has provided voice work such as the Rose in *The Little Prince* (2010). *Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Coco Before Chanel* (2009), Fi1m 60, as Adrienne Chanel — [page](https://film.one/film/coco-before-chanel.md) ## Complete filmography (50) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Les Héros du Louvre* (2026), as Lucie - *A Place for Pierrot* (2025), as Camille - *Enough is Enough!* (2024), as La belle-fille - *Sur la tête des enfants !* (2024), Actor - *Being Maria* (2024), as Marie-Christine - *The Blond Boy from the Casbah* (2023), as Dinah - *Délits mineurs* (2023), series, as Gabrielle Favre - *Big Kids* (2023), as Elisa - *A Great Friend* (2023), as Camille - *Top Dogs* (2023), as Alexandra - *À la folie* (2022), series, as Anna Spitzer - *Goliath* (2022), as Audrey - *Vicky and Her Mystery* (2021), as Anna - *À la folie* (2021), as Anna - *Speakerine* (2018), series, as Christine Beauval - *Souviens-toi* (2018), series, as Marie Kempf - *Alice* (2017), as Alice - *Mirage of Love* (2016), as Hirondelle - *Valentin Valentin* (2015), as Claudia Livorno - *Landes* (2013), as Liéna - *All Our Desires* (2011), as Claire - *The Little Prince* (2010), series, as la Rose (voice) - *Coco Before Chanel* (2009), as Adrienne Chanel — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/coco-before-chanel.md) - *The Very Very Big Company* (2008), as Mélanie - *Magique* (2008), as Betty - *Female Agents* (2008), as Suzy Desprez - *The Key* (2007), as Audrey - *It Had to be You* (2007), as Florence Baron - *Fragile(s)* (2007), as Nina - *Have Mercy on Us All* (2007), as Marie - *La Voie de Laura* (2005), as Laura - *Hell* (2005), as Anne - *The Pleasure Is All Mine* (2004), as Louise - *Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)* (2003), as Caty - *Safe Conduct* (2002), as Olga - *Absolutely Fabulous* (2001), as Safrane Vaudoye - *Barnie's Minor Annoyances* (2001), as Margot - *Leave It to Lucie!* (2000), as Lucie - *Last Harem* (1999), as Safiye - *The Dinner* (1998), as Cecilia la studentessa - *On Guard* (1997), as Aurore de Nevers - *An Air So Pure* (1997), as Julie d'Espard - *Elective Affinities* (1996), as Ottilia - *Fresh Bait* (1995), as Nathalie - *Un homme à la mer* (1993), as Camille - *Marie* (1993), as Marie - *My Father the Hero* (1991), as Véronique "Véro" Arnel - *My Wife is a Spy*, series, as Isabelle Brunet - *Montagnes Russes*, as Marion - *Les Crocs*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Marie Gillain](https://film.one/media/person/4158566/gallery-d46d3fe4c76b.jpg) Marie Gillain — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Marie_Gillain_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Marie Gillain en 2011, séance de maquillage d'avant interview au Théâtre Royal de Namur.](https://film.one/media/person/4158566/gallery-07820f323815.jpg) Marie Gillain en 2011, séance de maquillage d'avant interview au Théâtre Royal de Namur. — Michaël Bemelmans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Marie_Gillain_en_2011%2C_s%C3%A9ance_de_maquillage_d%27avant_interview_au_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_Royal_de_Namur.jpg/1280px-Marie_Gillain_en_2011%2C_s%C3%A9ance_de_maquillage_d%27avant_interview_au_Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_Royal_de_Namur.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Marie Gillain](https://film.one/media/person/4158566/gallery-24b81b83fca0.jpg) Marie Gillain — Image via TMDB - ![Marie Gillain](https://film.one/media/person/4158566/gallery-c509f9a8d3ef.jpg) Marie Gillain — Image via TMDB - ![Marie Gillain](https://film.one/media/person/4158566/gallery-8983bd602d6e.jpg) Marie Gillain — Image via TMDB - ![Marie Gillain](https://film.one/media/person/4158566/gallery-39e62719630e.jpg) Marie Gillain — Image via TMDB - ![Marie Gillain](https://film.one/media/person/4158566/gallery-624a00ca7765.jpg) Marie Gillain — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won, 2 nominated - honorary citizen of Liège 2015: honorary citizen of Liège (won) - César Award for Best Actress 2012: César Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *All Our Desires* - César Award for Best Actress 1998: César Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *On Guard* - Prix Romy Schneider 1996: Prix Romy Schneider (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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