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 |
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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
|The young woman at the end | |
1979
|L'Œil de la nuit |Lena |TV series |
1980
|Nada | |
1981
| |
1981
|Carole | |
1982
|Laura | |
1983
|Mystère | |
1984
|Héméré | |
1984
|Babé Senanques |Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actress |
1984
|Nemo |Rals-Akrai | |
1985
|Spécial Police |Isabelle Rodin | |
1986
|Double Gentlemen |Hélène | |
1986
|Eleonore | |
1987
|Lucrezia von Planta | |
1989
|Princess Soroya |Segment: "Life Without Zoé" |
1989
|Florence Barthélémy |
1989
|Clara | |
1991
|Margherita | |
1993
|Female Guest | |
1994
|Kate Swallow | |
1994
|As herself | |
1997 |
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
|Sofia | |
2002
|Lulu | |
2002
|Blanche | |
2002
|Ruy Blas |The Queen |Telefilm |
2003
|Béatrice | |
2004
|Hélène Dunan | |
2004
|Bad Spelling |Geneviève Massu | |
2004
|Juliette |TV series |
2005
|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
|Fil de fer's mother | |
2008
|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
|Judith | |
2012
|Alice | |
2014
|Margaux Castevet |TV miniseries |
2014, 2016
|Spin |Élisabeth Marjorie |TV series |
2014
|Nathalie Leproux | |
2017
|Jeanne Deber/The Mantis |Netflix Original Series |
2018
|Kiss & Tell |Lucie | |
2019
|Irène Haffner | |
2020
|Grand Hôtel |Agnès Vasseur |Television mini-series |
2020
|Boutchou |Paula | |
2020
|I Love You Coiffure |Caroline Sonneville |Telefilm |
2021
|Esther |TV series |
2021
|Fantasies |Marie | |
2022
|Ils s'aiment...enfin presque ! |Delphine |TV series |
2024
|{{illm|La Maison (série télévisée)|lt=La Maison|fr|La Maison (série télévisée) |
|Diane Rovel
|TV series
|-
|2024
|Hélène Durieux
|TV series
|}
Theatre
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Production ! Location |
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1992 |
2002
|Théâtre National de Nice & Théâtre Déjazet |
2008 |
2009
|L'Éloignement |Théâtre Édouard VII |
2010
|Lettres à Génica, folies d'amour |
2014 |
2015
|Home |
See also
References
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- {{Cite web |url=http://yvesgoux.net-koncept.com/index.php/?2006/10/26/9-carole-bouquet |title=Interview, article and other trace |first=Yves |last=Goux |publisher=Télémoustique |year=1998 |work=yvesgoux.net-koncept.com |language=fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928094016/http://yvesgoux.net-koncept.com/index.php/?2006%2F10%2F26%2F9-carole-bouquet |archive-date=28 September 2007}}
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Category:Actresses from Neuilly-sur-Seine
Category:French film actresses
Category:20th-century French actresses
Category:21st-century French actresses
Category:French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
Category:French television actresses
Category:French stage actresses