Biography
Marion Cotillard is a French actress. Born on 30 September 1975 in Paris, she began acting as a child and made her feature film debut in The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed (1994). Her breakthrough came with the role of Lilly Bertineau in the French comedy Taxi (1998).
She won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in A Very Long Engagement (2004). Cotillard received international acclaim for portraying Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose (2007), winning the Academy Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and her second César Award; she remains the only actor to win an Oscar for a French-language performance. She has appeared in English-language films including Big Fish (2003), Public Enemies (2009), Inception (2010), Contagion (2011) as Leonora Orantes, Midnight in Paris (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Lee (2023) as Solange D'Ayen.
