BIOGRAPHY:
Sophie Marceau, from her true name, Maupu, was born on November
17, 1966 in Paris. In 1980, studious and voluntary coed, it
seeks to gain a little pocket money by finding a job of summer
and answers the advertisement of an agency of casting. She is
retained among a thousand of girl to make a screen test in front
of Claude Pinoteau which falls under the charm from Sophie and
gives him the principal role in "Bang". In a film,
Sophie becomes a star main road and propels film to the signal
of the boxoffices. Two years later, it repeats with "Bang
the 2" and gains César of best Female Espoir.
This success which
one could describe as easy does not drop Sophie in simplicity,
it wants to leave the mould in which the public could be tried
to put it and radically changes register into returning in 1984
with the poster of "Strong Saganne", then the following
year in "Police force". In 1985, it meets the realizer
Andrzej Zulawski (who will give him a fore-mentioned child Vincent
in 1995). After a incartade in the medium of the song in 1986
with an album (Certainty), Sophie centres her career on the
cinema without however always meeting the recognition of the
public and the critic. In 1994, it is asked by Mel Gibson to
play in "Braveheart" what gives a new breath to its
career which becomes international. She connects films, and
allures the American public in "the World Is not enough",
"the One Night Dream of Summer", etc. Parallel to
its career, it is more and more often devoted to humane causes
by supporting for example association "Arc in Sky"
the purpose of which is to carry out the dreams of sick children
or with the operation "Photographs of Stars" organized
by Reporters Without Frontières. In 2002, after the birth
of a small Juliette (the dad is Jim Lemley) Sophie passes behind
the camera for carried out a more or less autobiographical film
“Speak me about Love” to the mitigated success which
does not prevent Sophie from remaining the most popular actress
of France and to continue his career of actress while playing
in 2003 in “I Remain” or” This Evening ".
In 2006, the beautiful Sophie returns to incarnate a spy during
the second world war in “the Women Of the Shade”.