Carole Bouquet

{{Short description|French actress (born 1957)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Carole Bouquet

| image = Carole Bouquet 2013.jpg

| caption = Bouquet in 2013

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|8|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1977–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Jacques Leibowitch|1992|1996|reason=divorced}}

| partner = Jean-Pierre Rassam
(1982–1985)
Gérard Depardieu
(1997–2005)

| children = 2, including Dimitri Rassam

}}

Carole Bouquet (born 18 August 1957{{Cite web |title=Carole Bouquet |url=https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/artists/carole-bouquet |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=Opéra national de Paris |language=en}}) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 60 films since 1977. In 1990, she was awarded the César Award for Best Actress for her role in Too Beautiful for You.

Life and career

Bouquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She made her film acting debut in Luis Buñuel's surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).{{Cite web |date=2012-03-20 |title=Carole Bouquet Keeps Blooming |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/carole-bouquet-unforgivable |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=Interview Magazine |language=en-US}} Bouquet portrayed the Bond girl Melina Havelock, opposite Roger Moore in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. She received a César Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Rive droite, rive gauche (1984), and won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Beautiful For You (1989).{{Cite web |title=Award Winners & Nominees |url=https://www.academie-cinema.org/en/awards/ |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=Académie des César |language=en-US}}

In the 1980s, she was a model for French luxury fashion label Chanel, being the face of Chanel No. 5.{{cite news |author1=Raguraman, Anjali |date=23 April 2017 |title=Former Bond girl Carole Bouquet now runs a winery on Pantelleria |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/food/bond-girl-likes-it-haute |work=The Straits Times |publisher=Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Co.}}Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West, London/New York: Routledge, 2005; {{ISBN|978-0-415-35182-9}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=TrrE4TaAxN0C&pg=PA65 p. 65]: "the French face of Chanel in the late 1990s".Tilar J. Mazzeo, The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's most Famous Perfume, New York: Harper, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-06-179101-7}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AKmWBNpoSfYC&pg=PA199 p. 199]: "Carole Bouquet, the 'face' of Chanel No. 5 during the 1980s". She was the face of Chanel No. 5 fragrance from 1986 to 1997.{{Cite web |title=CHANEL N°5 advertising film from 1986, "Monuments", by Ridley Scott, with Carole Bouquet |url=https://inside.chanel.com/en/no5/campaigns/1986_no5_monuments |access-date=3 March 2020 |website=Inside CHANEL}}{{Cite web |title=1997 – Carole Bouquet, photographed by Dominique Issermann for CHANEL N°5 advertising campaign in 1997 |url=https://inside.chanel.com/en/no5/campaigns/1997_no5_e_bouquet |access-date=3 March 2020}}

She was the companion of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam, with whom she had a son, Dimitri Rassam, also a producer.Costanzo Costantini, Le regine del cinema, Rome: Gremese, 1997, {{ISBN|978-88-7742-138-8}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tzd3redagIEC&pg=PA39 p. 39] {{in lang|it}}: "Carole Bouquet vive ora con Jean-Pierre Rassam, il produttore siriano o libanese che le ha dato sei mesi fa un figlio, Dimitry [Carole Bouquet now lives with Jean-Pierre Rassam, the Lebanese or Syrian producer, who gave her a son, Dimitri, six months ago]."Catherina Catsaros, Le grand livre des QCM de culture générale volume 2, Paris: l'Etudiant, 2008; {{ISBN|978-2-84624-604-0}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=_ww-tij9lZYC&pg=PA15 p. 15] {{in lang|fr}}: "Carole Bouquet dont le mari Jean-Pierre Rassam (décédé depuis) [Carole Bouquet, whose husband Jean-Pierre Rassam (since deceased)]". In 1987, she gave birth to a son, Louis, with photographer Francis Giacobetti. She married immunologist Jacques Leibowitch in 1992; they divorced in 1996.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/features/bond-girl-carole-bouquet-on-drugs-demons-and-her-doomed-affair-798723.html |title=Bond girl Carole Bouquet on drugs, demons and her doomed affair |work=The Independent|date=23 March 2008}}

In 1999, she was a jury member of the 4th Shanghai International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.siff.com/InformationEn/ViewDetail.aspx?ParentCategoryID=87f3154e-0ec5-4706-bc07-f15f17a52477&InfoGuid=ac1f72ef-5309-4616-a916-91429b9800d1 |title=Archive – Golden Goblet Award |publisher=Shanghai International Film Festival |access-date=30 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513191545/http://www.siff.com/InformationEn/ViewDetail.aspx?ParentCategoryID=87f3154e-0ec5-4706-bc07-f15f17a52477&InfoGuid=ac1f72ef-5309-4616-a916-91429b9800d1 |archive-date=13 May 2013}}

She was a member of the main competition jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.purepeople.com/article/cannes-2014-carole-bouquet-membre-du-jury-du-festival_a139412/1|title=Cannes 2014 : Carole Bouquet membre du jury du Festival !|website=Purepeople.com|access-date=25 November 2017}}

On 21 May 2014, Bouquet formalized her relationship with Philippe Sereys de Rothschild on the red carpet of the 37th Festival de Cannes, of which she was one of the jury members.{{Cite web |url=https://www.purepeople.com/article/carole-bouquet-en-couple-ce-qu-elle-admire-chez-philippe-sereys-de-rothschild_a301151/1 |title=Carole Bouquet en couple : Ce qu'elle admire chez Philippe Sereys de Rothschild |date=23 August 2018 |website=Purepeople |language=fr}}

She has been running a winery, Maison Carole Bouquet, on the island of Pantelleria in the Strait of Sicily since 2005.

Filmography

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class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1977

|La famille Cigale

|Béatrice Damien-Lacour

|TV miniseries

1977

|That Obscure Object of Desire

|Conchita

|

1977

|Les rebelles

|Nilca

|Telefilm

1979

|The Persian Lamb Coat

|Valentine

|

1979

|Buffet froid

|The young woman at the end

|

1979

|L'Œil de la nuit

|Lena

|TV series

1980

|Blank Generation

|Nada

|

1981

|For Your Eyes Only

|Melina Havelock

|

1981

|Day of the Idiots

|Carole

|

1982

|Bingo Bongo

|Laura

|

1983

|Dagger Eyes

|Mystère

|

1984

|Le bon roi Dagobert

|Héméré

|

1984

|Rive droite, rive gauche

|Babé Senanques

|Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actress

1984

|Nemo

|Rals-Akrai

|

1985

|Spécial Police

|Isabelle Rodin

|

1986

|Double Gentlemen

|Hélène

|

1986

|The Malady of Love

|Eleonore

|

1987

|Jenatsch

|Lucrezia von Planta

|

1989

|New York Stories

|Princess Soroya

|Segment: "Life Without Zoé"

1989

|Too Beautiful for You

|Florence Barthélémy

|César Award for Best Actress

1989

|Bunker Palace Hôtel

|Clara

|

1991

|Donne con le gonne

|Margherita

|

1993

|Tango

|Female Guest

|

1994

|A Business Affair

|Kate Swallow

|

1994

|Dead Tired

|As herself

|

1997

|Lucie Aubrac

|Lucie Aubrac

1997

|The Red and the Black

|Louise de Rénal

|Telefilm

1998

|In All Innocence

|Viviane Farnese

|

1999

|The Bridge

|Mina

|

2000

|Lulu Kreutz's Picnic

|Anna Ghirardi

|

2000

|Bérénice

|Bérénice

|Telefilm

2001

|Diamond Earrings

|Madame de

|Telefilm

2001

|Wasabi

|Sofia

|

2002

|Summer Things

|Lulu

|

2002

|Blanche

|Anne of Austria

|

2002

|Ruy Blas

|The Queen

|Telefilm

2003

|Bienvenue chez les Rozes

|Béatrice

|

2004

|Red Lights

|Hélène Dunan

|

2004

|Bad Spelling

|Geneviève Massu

|

2004

|Sex and the City

|Juliette

|TV series

2005

|Northeast

|Hélène

|Stockholm Film Festival – Best Actress

2005

|Housewarming

|Chantal Letellier

|

2005

|Hell

|Marie

|

2006

|Aurore

|The Queen

|

2006

|Un ami parfait

|Anna

|

2007

|Perfect Match...

|Hélène

|

2008

|Behind the Walls

|Fil de fer's mother

|

2008

|Trouble at Timpetill

|Madame Drohne

|

2009

|L'Éloignement

|Denise

|Telefilm

2009

|Je vais te manquer

|Julia

|

2010

|Protéger et servir

|Aude Lettelier

|

2010

|Libre échange

|Marthe

|

2010

|Le mystère

|Chloé

|

2011

|Impardonnables

|Judith

|

2012

|Bad Girl

|Alice

|

2014

|Rosemary's Baby

|Margaux Castevet

|TV miniseries

2014, 2016

|Spin

|Élisabeth Marjorie

|TV series

2014

|Do Not Disturb

|Nathalie Leproux

|

2017

|La Mante

|Jeanne Deber/The Mantis

|Netflix Original Series

2018

|Kiss & Tell

|Lucie

|

2019

|On a Magical Night

|Irène Haffner

|

2020

|Grand Hôtel

|Agnès Vasseur

|Television mini-series

2020

|Boutchou

|Paula

|

2020

|I Love You Coiffure

|Caroline Sonneville

|Telefilm

2021

|In Therapy

|Esther

|TV series

2021

|Fantasies

|Marie

|

2022

|Ils s'aiment...enfin presque !

|Delphine

|TV series

2024

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}

|Diane Rovel

|TV series

|-

|2024

|Cat's Eyes

|Hélène Durieux

|TV series

|}

Theatre

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Production

! Location

1992

|Old Times

|Théâtre Hébertot

2002

|Phèdre

|Théâtre National de Nice & Théâtre Déjazet

2008

|Berenice

|Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

2009

|L'Éloignement

|Théâtre Édouard VII

2010

|Lettres à Génica, folies d'amour

|Théâtre de l'Atelier

2014

|Ashes to Ashes

|Théâtre de l'Œuvre & Théâtre des Célestins

2015

|Home

|Théâtre de l'Œuvre

See also

References

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