Name: Emmanuelle Beart
Date of Birth: August 14 1965
Birth Place: Gassin France
Nationality: French
Education: Drama school in Paris
Claim to fame: in Manon des Sources the sequel to Jean
de Florette
Occupation: Actress, model
Emmanuelle Beart is the daughter of french singer and
poet Guy Béart and Italian-Greek mother, Geneviève
Galea. She was born on the 14 August 1965 in St. Tropez,
France. After her parents divorce she was raised by
her mother in a remote mountain village in provence
with her three brothers and her sister . As a teenager,
left for Montreal. There she, apparently, met Robert
Altman who encouraged her to become an actress. Although
she even took a screen test for him, nothing came of
it. She then attended a drama school in paris before
being cast in Premiers désirs three months later.
She first became well known in Manon des Sources the
sequel to Jean de Florette when she won Best Supporting
Actress. Emmanuelle has risen to great national and
international fame as an actress not merely because
of her beauty, she is also capable of deep emotional
empathy with the character she is playing. Like many
actresses she spends a long time preparing her characters,
in Un Coeur en Hiver for instance she apparently practiced
the violin every day for eighteen months.
Emmanuelle had a long relationship with Daniel Auteuil,
her co-star in several films. She has a daughter, Nelly
(born April 18th 1992), by Auteuil, and a young son
Johan (born March 1996) by her current boyfriend David
Moreau (the half-brother of French actor Patrick Bruel).
But she says her children will not interfere with her
acting career: "For the moment, I just put them
in a backpack and bring them along with me. I love the
fact that they can travel with me. I just decided that
I would not put my professional life on hold to raise
children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people
and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing.
But that's the way I'm doing it."
One of her greatest irritations is the curiosity of
the press: "It's madness. They follow me. I sue
them. That's the deal. I have to admit that it's getting
painful to stay polite... I give everything I have to
give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything
else."
Her next film is Jacques Weber's "Don Juan",
co-starring Penelope Cruz and Ariadna Gil.
