Bérénice Bejo is a French actress, known for her role of Christiana in the 2001 film, A Knight's Tale.

Bejo was born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 to Argentine filmmaker Miguel Bejo. At age 3, she moved to France where she started her acting career. In 2001, she entered America's big screen by performing in A Knight's Tale, and in 2002's 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

24 Hours in the Life of a Woman is a 1968 French drama film directed by Dominique Delouche, based on the novel 24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau by Stefan Zweig. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France...

. She is set to star in the French psychological thriller Proie.

Bejo has supported Lionel Jospin

Lionel Jospin

Lionel Jospin is a French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.Jospin was the Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995...

's 2002 presidential campaign. She is married to director Michel Hazanavicius.

Filmography

• The Artist
  The Artist (film)
  The Artist is a 2011 French romance film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining male film star and a rising actress, as silent cinema grows out of fashion and is replaced by the...
  
  (2011)
• Modern Love
  Modern Love
  George Meredith's Modern Love is a collection of 50 16-line sonnets about the failure of his first marriage. He reflects his own disillusionment after his wife Mary Ellen, the daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, left him for the painter Henry Wallis. It is often thought of as one of the first...
  
  (2008)
• OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
  OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
  OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is a French film directed by Michel Hazanavicius. It is a parody of the spy film genre. The film follows the exploits of a French secret agent, OSS 117, in Cairo in 1955.-Plot:...
  
  (2006)
• Calvacade (2005)
• Dissonances (2003)
• 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
  24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
  24 Hours in the Life of a Woman is a 1968 French drama film directed by Dominique Delouche, based on the novel 24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau by Stefan Zweig. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France...
  
  (2002)
• A Knight's Tale (2001)

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