Audrey Tautou

Audrey Justine Tautou French pronunciation odʁɛ totu born August 9 1976 is a French actress and model Signed by an agent at age 17 she made her acting debut at 18 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Venus Beauty Institute 1999 for which she received critical acclaim and won the César Award for Most Promising Actress Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Le Libertin and Happenstance 2000 Tautou achieved international recognition for her lead role in the 2001 film Amélie which met with critical acclaim and was a major boxoffice success Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards four César Awards including Best Film and Best Director two BAFTA Awards including Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for five Academy Awards Tautou has since appeared in films in a range of genres including the thrillers Dirty Pretty Things and The Da Vinci Code and the romantic Priceless 2006 She has received critical acclaim for her many roles including the drama A Very Long Engagement 2004 and the biographical drama Coco avant Chanel 2009 She has been nominated three times for the César Award and twice for the BAFTA for Best Actress in a leading role She became one of the few French actors in history to be invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences AMPAS in June 2004 Tautou has modeled for Chanel Montblanc LOréal and many other companies She is an active supporter of several charities