Marion Cotillard

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1975 age 0

   Born

2. 1998 age 23

   CreditTaxi

3. 2000 age 25

   CreditTaxi 2

4. 2003 age 28

   CreditBig Fish

   CreditLove Me If You Dare

   CreditTaxi 3

5. 2004 age 29

   CreditA Very Long Engagement

6. 2006 age 31

   CreditA Good Year

7. 2007 age 32

   CreditLa Vie en Rose

8. 2009 age 34

   CreditNine

   CreditPublic Enemies

9. 2010 age 35

   CreditInception

10. 2011 age 36

    CreditContagion

    CreditMidnight in Paris

11. 2012 age 37

    CreditRust and Bone

    CreditThe Dark Knight Rises

12. 2013 age 38

    CreditAnchorman 2: The Legend Continues

13. 2014 age 39

    CreditTwo Days, One Night

14. 2016 age 41

    CreditAllied

    CreditAssassin's Creed

15. 2020 age 45

    CreditDolittle

• CAColleen Atwood3 titles
• LBLuc Besson3 titles
• SNSamy Naceri3 titles
• BFBernard Farcy3 titles
• ÉMÉdouard Montoute3 titles
• EWEmma Wiklund3 titles
• FDFrédéric Diefenthal3 titles
• HZHans Zimmer2 titles
• CNChristopher Nolan2 titles
• CBChristian Bale2 titles

• Partner

  • GCGuillaume Canet

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• Thank you, life. Thank you, love. And it is true, there is some angels in this city.

  Marion Cotillard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I was fascinated by this world of telling stories, of having a different day every day. And my parents were – still are – passionate people, and to be raised with passionate people who open the door of your imagination and your creativity, I think it’s why I am an actress now.

  Marion Cotillard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I was doing movies and I was not happy, I wanted more than what I had. I started to feel that I had some anger that it wouldn’t be fast enough, that I wouldn’t do [good roles], and I started getting jealous. It’s not very constructive for me to be jealous, so I told myself, OK, I’m going to take some time off. I don’t want to wait for the phone, I don’t want to do things just to earn money, because a passion shouldn’t be like that. Tim Burton offered me the role in Big Fish, and this was exactly what I wanted. It was not “exactly”, it was much more than I had dreamt of. And then I told myself, you wanted to leave, and here comes something so fulfilling, so maybe you should think twice! Maybe it’s actually your right place to be an actress.

  Marion Cotillard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I’ve never gone so deeply in someone’s emotions, so it affected, but in a good way, my emotions. I went deep somewhere that it has awakened things that I had hidden because it was too hard to face. And after the movie I started to face those things I was afraid of. I had to get rid of a lot of my fears. I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that. And I fight and… there are a lot of situations where if I could have handled it at the time it would have gone, and I didn’t because I’m afraid of confrontation, I’m always afraid to express myself in the wrong way and to be misunderstood and to give something of an image of myself that I’m not. So most of the time I don’t say anything because of being fearful of being wrong. And with Piaf, suddenly I wanted to face my fear, because I know that when you face your fears it disappears for real.

  Marion Cotillard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Daniel Day-Lewis gave me one advice. Take care of my life. Don’t work too much. He’s right. And that’s why you have to come back to your life, because it is in your life where you can find the desire to tell someone a story, and if you don’t live your life then you are not interesting any more, because what will you tell? If I’m always in different stories which are not mine I’ll be lost and I’ll be poor. Poor of my own life. And I don’t want that.

  Marion Cotillard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Someone who will try to make me angry or create a situation that is not related to my character in order to put me in the state of the character. It’s 100 percent counter productive. Either I will get mad and I won’t be good or – and most of the time this is what happens – I will laugh. I cannot take it seriously.

  Marion Cotillard, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

France

Height

169 cm

Eye colour

blue

Hair colour

brown hair

Languages

French, English

Years active

1982–

Instruments

electric guitar

Notable works

La Vie en Rose, Two Days, One Night

Education

Departmental Conservatory of Orleans