Sandrine Bonnaire
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Sandrine Bonnaire is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films including Hollywood movies.
Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat
, Allier, in the Auvergne
region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in 1983, when she starred in the Maurice Pialat
film À nos amours
. She played a girl from Paris beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984 she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress
.
Her international breakthrough came in 1986 when she played the main character in Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond), directed by Agnès Varda
, for which she won her second César Award. She portrays a vagrant who fails both physically and morally. The film Monsieur Hire
directed by Patrice Leconte
followed in 1989, along with further work with directors Jacques Doillon
and Claude Sautet
. In 2004, she starred in another Patrice Leconte
's film: Intimate Strangers
, which was an arthouse box office hit in the United States.
Bonnaire has a daughter, Jeanne, from a relationship with actor William Hurt
, whom she met in 1991 during filming of the Albert Camus
novel La Peste (The Plague
). They acted together in Secrets Shared with a Stranger (1994). Since March 2003 she has been married to actor and screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, with whom she has had a second daughter, Adèle.
Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat
Gannat
Gannat is a commune in the Allier department in central France.Gannat was a sub-prefecture until 1926, with a population of around 5 800 inhabitants. There is a castle , two churches of which one is partly Romanesque with a 19th-century Gospel Book. The Cultures du Monde Festival is held every July...
, Allier, in the Auvergne
Auvergne (région)
Auvergne is one of the 27 administrative regions of France. It comprises the 4 departments of Allier, Puy de Dome, Cantal and Haute Loire.The current administrative region of Auvergne is larger than the historical province of Auvergne, and includes provinces and areas that historically were not...
region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in 1983, when she starred in the Maurice Pialat
Maurice Pialat
Maurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films...
film À nos amours
À nos amours
À nos amours is a 1983 French film directed by Maurice Pialat, written by Arlette Langmann and Pialat.-Plot:The film is a character study focusing on Suzanne, a promiscuous fifteen-year-old Parisian, played by Sandrine Bonnaire...
. She played a girl from Paris beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984 she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress
César Award for Most Promising Actress
The following is the list of winners of the César Award for Most Promising Actress . Since its inception in 1983, the award is given as part of the French film industry's annual César Awards....
.
Her international breakthrough came in 1986 when she played the main character in Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond), directed by Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....
, for which she won her second César Award. She portrays a vagrant who fails both physically and morally. The film Monsieur Hire
Monsieur Hire
Monsieur Hire is a 1989 French film directed by Patrice Leconte and starring Michel Blanc in the title role and Sandrine Bonnaire as the object of his affection. The film received numerous accolades as well as a glowing review from popular American movie commentator Roger Ebert. The film is based...
directed by Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...
followed in 1989, along with further work with directors Jacques Doillon
Jacques Doillon
Jacques Doillon is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women...
and Claude Sautet
Claude Sautet
Claude Sautet was a French author and film director.-Biography:Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Claude Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer...
. In 2004, she starred in another Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte
Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...
's film: Intimate Strangers
Intimate Strangers
Intimate Strangers is a 2004 French film directed by Patrice Leconte. It was shown in Competition at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.Paramount Classics acquired the United States distribution rights of this film and gave it a limited U.S...
, which was an arthouse box office hit in the United States.
Bonnaire has a daughter, Jeanne, from a relationship with actor William Hurt
William Hurt
William McGill Hurt is an American stage and film actor. He received his acting training at the Juilliard School, and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States , for which he received a Golden Globe nomination...
, whom she met in 1991 during filming of the Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
novel La Peste (The Plague
The Plague
The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition...
). They acted together in Secrets Shared with a Stranger (1994). Since March 2003 she has been married to actor and screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, with whom she has had a second daughter, Adèle.
Filmography
- 1982 – La Boum 2La boum 2La boum 2 is a 1982 French language motion picture comedy directed by Claude Pinoteau and starring Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau, and Lambert Wilson. La boum 2 is the sequel to La boum...
(extra), directed by Claude PinoteauClaude PinoteauClaude Pinoteau is a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France.- Filmography :* 1971 : It Only Happens to Others... - 1982 – Les Sous-doués en vacances (extra), directed by Claude ZidiClaude ZidiClaude Zidi is a French film director and screenwriter who is noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born in Paris, he started as a cameraman and then cinematographer, and made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1971...
- 1983 – À nos amoursÀ nos amoursÀ nos amours is a 1983 French film directed by Maurice Pialat, written by Arlette Langmann and Pialat.-Plot:The film is a character study focusing on Suzanne, a promiscuous fifteen-year-old Parisian, played by Sandrine Bonnaire...
, directed by Maurice PialatMaurice PialatMaurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films... - 1984 – Tir à vue, directed by Marc Angelo
- 1985 – Blanche et Marie, directed by Jacques Renard
- 1985 – Le meilleur de la vie, directed by Renaud Victor
- 1985 – PolicePolice (1985 film)Police is a 1985 French film, starring Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau and Sandrine Bonnaire. It was directed by Maurice Pialat and written by Catherine Breillat.-Plot:...
, directed by Maurice PialatMaurice PialatMaurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films... - 1985 – Sans toit ni loiVagabond (film)Vagabond is a 1985 drama film directed by Agnès Varda, featuring Sandrine Bonnaire. It describes the story of a young woman, a vagabond, who wanders through French wine country one winter. The film was the 36th highest grossing film of the year with a total of 1,080,143 admissions in France....
, directed by Agnès VardaAgnès VardaAgnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.... - 1986 – La Puritaine, directed by Jacques DoillonJacques DoillonJacques Doillon is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women...
- 1987 – Sous le soleil de SatanUnder the Sun of SatanUnder the Sun of Satan is a 1987 French film directed by Maurice Pialat. It is based on the 1926 novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos, and tells the story of a devout priest who becomes involved with a murderess...
, directed by Maurice PialatMaurice PialatMaurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films... - 1987 – Jaune revolver, directed by Olivier Langlois
- 1987 – Les InnocentsLes Innocents (film)Les Innocents is a 1987 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Simon de La Brosse and Abdel Kechiche. The plot, follows a girl who looking for her runaway brother, finds several people who change her life. The film was partially inspired by a William...
, directed by André TéchinéAndré TéchinéAndré Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors.... - 1988 – Quelques jours avec moiQuelques jours avec moiQuelques jours avec moi is a French film by director Claude Sautet, released in France in 1988. It received three César Award nominations in the 1989 Festival's edition.-Plot:...
, directed by Claude SautetClaude SautetClaude Sautet was a French author and film director.-Biography:Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Claude Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer... - 1988 – Peaux de vachesThick SkinnedThick Skinned is a 1989 French drama film directed by Patricia Mazuy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sandrine Bonnaire - Annie* Jean-François Stévenin - Roland* Jacques Spiesser - Gérard...
, directed by Patricia MazuyPatricia MazuyPatricia Mazuy is a French film director and screenwriter. Her film Peaux de vaches was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival... - 1989 – Monsieur HireMonsieur HireMonsieur Hire is a 1989 French film directed by Patrice Leconte and starring Michel Blanc in the title role and Sandrine Bonnaire as the object of his affection. The film received numerous accolades as well as a glowing review from popular American movie commentator Roger Ebert. The film is based...
, directed by Patrice LecontePatrice LecontePatrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:... - 1990 – La Captive du désert, directed by Raymond DepardonRaymond DepardonRaymond Depardon is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker.-Photographer:...
- 1990 – Verso sera (aka. Dans la soirée), directed by Francesca ArchibugiFrancesca ArchibugiFrancesca Archibugi is an award-winning Italian film director and scriptwriter.- Biography :Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family , she started to study acting with Alessandro Fersen and graduated in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Cinecittà...
- 1991 – Le ciel de Paris, directed by Michel Béna
- 1991 – La Peste, directed by Luis PuenzoLuis PuenzoLuis Adalberto Puenzo is an Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has also worked in the United States.-Biography:...
- 1992 – PraguePrague (1992 film)Prague is a 1992 British drama film directed by Ian Sellar. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Alan Cumming - Alexander Novak* Sandrine Bonnaire - Elena* Bruno Ganz - Josef* Raphael Meiss - Ralph...
, directed by Ian Sellar - 1994 – Joan the Maiden, Part 1: The BattlesJoan the Maiden, Part 1: The BattlesJoan the Maiden, Part 1: The Battles is a 1994 French film directed by Jacques Rivette. It chronicles the Life of Joan of Arc and was followed by Joan the Maiden, Part 2: The Prisons.-Cast:*Sandrine Bonnaire as Jeanne d'Arc...
, directed by Jacques RivetteJacques RivetteJacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1.... - 1994 – Joan the Maiden, Part 2: The PrisonsJoan the Maiden, Part 2: The PrisonsJoan the Maiden, Part 2: The Prisons is a 1994 French film directed by Jacques Rivette. It chronicles the Life of Joan of Arc and follows the first film Joan the Maiden, Part 1: The Battles.-Cast:*Sandrine Bonnaire as Jeanne d'Arc...
, directed by Jacques RivetteJacques RivetteJacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1.... - 1994 – Ispoved neznakomtsu (Secrets Shared with a Stranger), directed by Georges Bardawil
- 1995 – Les Cent et une Nuits de Simon Cinéma, directed by Agnès VardaAgnès VardaAgnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....
- 1995 – La CérémonieLa CérémonieLa Cérémonie is a 1995 film by Claude Chabrol. It was adapted from the novel A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell.- Plot :La Cérémonie tells the story of an illiterate dyslexic young woman, Sophie Bonhomme , who is hired as a maid by the Lelièvre family. The Lelièvres live in an isolated mansion in...
, directed by Claude ChabrolClaude ChabrolClaude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s... - 1996 – Never Ever, directed by Charles Finch
- 1997 – Die Schuld der Liebe, directed by Andreas GruberAndreas GruberAndreas Gruber is an Austrian screenwriter and director of both television and film.From 1974 to 1982 he studied screenwriting and directing at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna....
- 1997 – Une femme en blanc (TV series), directed by Aline Issermann
- 1998 – Top SecretTop Secret (1998 film)-Cast:*Sandrine Bonnaire as Sylvie*Jerzy Radziwilowicz as Walser*Grégoire Colin as Paul*Laure Marsac as Véronique / Ludivine*Françoise Fabian as Geneviève*Christine Vouilloz as Myriam...
, directed by Jacques RivetteJacques RivetteJacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1.... - 1998 – Voleur de vie, directed by Yves AngeloYves AngeloYves Angelo is a French cinematographer and film director. Angelo has won the César Award for Best Cinematography three times: in 1990 for Nocturne indien, in 1992 for Tous les matins du monde, and in 1994 for Germinal....
- 1999 – Au cœur du mensongeThe Color of LiesThe Color of Lies is a 1999 film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is Au cœur du mensonge .-Plot:...
, directed by Claude ChabrolClaude ChabrolClaude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s... - 1999 – East/WestEast/WestEast/West is a 1999 French film directed by Régis Wargnier, starring Sandrine Bonnaire , Oleg Menshikov , Sergei Bodrov Jr. and Catherine Deneuve...
, directed by Régis WargnierRégis WargnierRégis Wargnier is a French film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor and film score composer.-Director:*1986 : La Femme de ma vie starring Jane Birkin*1988 : Sueurs froides... - 2001 – Mademoiselle, directed by Philippe LioretPhilippe LioretPhilippe Lioret is a French film director.- Filmography :*1993: Tombés du ciel*1997: Tenue correcte exigée*2001: Mademoiselle*2004: L'Équipier*2006: Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas*2009: Welcome...
- 2001 – C'est la vie, directed by Jean-Pierre AmérisJean-Pierre AmérisJean-Pierre Améris is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed eleven films since 1993. His film Poids léger was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
- 2002 – Femme fataleFemme Fatale (2002 film)Femme Fatale is a 2002 French mystery film directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars Rebecca Romijn as the femme fatale and Antonio Banderas...
, directed by Brian De PalmaBrian De PalmaBrian Russell De Palma is an American film director and writer. In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as the horror film Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission:... - 2003 – ResistanceResistance (film)Resistance is a war movie released in 2003. It was written by Todd Komarnicki and Anita Shreve, stars Bill Paxton, Julia Ormond, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Bonnaire, and Victor Reinier, and was directed by Todd Komarnicki. Resistance, with a 16 million euro budget, was the most expensive Dutch...
, directed by Todd Komarnicki - 2003 – La Maison des enfants (TV series), directed by Aline Issermann
- 2004 – Confidences trop intimes (aka Intimate StrangersIntimate StrangersIntimate Strangers is a 2004 French film directed by Patrice Leconte. It was shown in Competition at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.Paramount Classics acquired the United States distribution rights of this film and gave it a limited U.S...
), directed by Patrice LecontePatrice LecontePatrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:... - 2004 – Le Cou de la girafeLe Cou de la girafeLe Cou de la girafe is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.-Cast:* Sandrine Bonnaire - Hélène* Claude Rich - Paul* Louisa Pili - Mathilde* Darry Cowl - Léo* Philippe Leroy - Maxime...
, directed by Safy Nebbou - 2004 – L'ÉquipierThe Light (film)The Light is a 2004 French film directed by Philippe Lioret and starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Émilie Dequenne, Grégori Derangère, and Philippe Torreton....
, directed by Philippe LioretPhilippe LioretPhilippe Lioret is a French film director.- Filmography :*1993: Tombés du ciel*1997: Tenue correcte exigée*2001: Mademoiselle*2004: L'Équipier*2006: Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas*2009: Welcome... - 2006 – Le Procès de Bobigny (TV), directed by François Luciani : Martine
- 2006 – Je crois que je l'aime, directed by Pierre JolivetPierre JolivetPierre Jolivet is a French director, actor and script-writer. His film Zim and Co. was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival....
- 2006 – Demandez la permission aux enfants, directed by Eric Civanyan
- 2007 – Un Coeur Simple
- 2008 – Mark of an AngelMark of an AngelMark of an Angel or L'Empreinte de l'ange is a French 2008 film, directed by Safy Nebbou. Retitled Angel of Mine for its 2009 English-language DVD release.-Plot:...
, directed by Safy Nebbou - 2009 – Queen to PlayQueen to PlayQueen to Play is a 2009 French-German film directed by Caroline Bottaro. The film is distributed in the U.S. by Zeitgeist Films.-Synopsis:...
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External links
- Sandrine Bonnaire's Cinématon – A 4 minutes online portrait by Gérard Courant
- Sandrine Bonnaire at Film Reference
- Sandrine Bonnaire at Allocine