Emmanuelle Béart

Emmanuelle Béart was born in Gassin, on the French Riviera, the daughter of Geneviève Galéa (pseudonym of Geneviève Guillery), a former model who is of Croatian, Greek and Maltese descent, and Guy Béart, a singer and poet.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/58/Emmanuelle-Beart.html |title=Emmanuelle Beart Biography (1965–) |work=Film Reference |access-date=21 April 2020}} Her Egyptian-born father's family was of Sephardic Jewish descent, who sought refuge in Lebanon during his childhood.Binder, Carol (16 September 2015). [http://www.actuj.com/2015-09/culture/2329-guy-beart-ma-mere-m-a-enseigne-les-rituels-juifs-que-je-connais-tres-bien Guy Béart: «Ma mère m'a enseigné les rituels juifs que je connais très bien»] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220002215/http://www.actuj.com/2015-09/culture/2329-guy-beart-ma-mere-m-a-enseigne-les-rituels-juifs-que-je-connais-tres-bien |date=20 December 2018 }}. ActualitéJuive (in French). Retrieved 21 April 2020.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gossiprocks.com/emmanuelle-beart|title=Emmanuelle Beart|website=Gossiprocks.com|access-date=21 April 2020|archive-date=12 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512042456/https://www.gossiprocks.com/emmanuelle-beart|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://migrations.besancon.fr/zooms-encyclo/1453-les-chretiens-dorient.html|title=Les chrétiens d'Orient|trans-title=Eastern Christians|last=Kerlereux|first=Pierre|website=Besancon.fr|language=fr|date=January 2019|orig-year=2019|access-date=21 April 2020|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731011732/http://migrations.besancon.fr/zooms-encyclo/1453-les-chretiens-dorient.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|last=Salameh|first=Franck|title=Lebanon's Jewish Community: Fragments of Lives Arrested|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DThxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52|year=2018|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-99667-7|page=52|quote=Guy Béart, sing-songwriter and father of French actress Emmanuelle Béart, whose passion for music was nurtured in the Lebanon of his childhood where his parents had taken refuge after their expulsion from Egypt}}

She has a half-sister, Ève (born 1959), on her father's side and six half-siblings on her mother's side; Ivan, Sarah and Mikis Cerieix from her mother's relationship with Jean-Yves Cerieix and Olivier Guespin, Lison and Charlotte from her mother's relationship with Jean-Jacques Guespin.{{Cite web|last=Média|first=Prisma|title=Emmanuelle Béart - La biographie de Emmanuelle Béart avec Gala.fr|url=https://www.gala.fr/stars_et_gotha/emmanuelle_beart|access-date=30 October 2020|website=Gala.fr|language=fr}}{{Cite web|last=Arlin|first=Marc|date=12 August 2020|title=Emmanuelle Béart : qui est sa soeur aînée, Eve Béart ?|url=https://www.programme-tv.net/news/cinema/258857-emmanuelle-beart-qui-est-sa-soeur-ainee-eve-beart/|access-date=30 October 2020|website=www.programme-tv.net|language=fr}}

In her late teens, she spent her summer vacation in Montreal with the English-speaking family of William Sofin, a close friend of her father. At the end of the summer, the family invited her to stay with them and complete her baccalauréat at Collège International Marie de France. They remained close friends.{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=12101&apid=0 |title=Emmanuelle Beart |work=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=16 January 2010}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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Béart got an acting role in 1976 film Tomorrow's Children. In her teens she appeared in bit parts in television. Upon graduating from the Collège International Marie de France in Montreal, she returned to France to attend drama school in Paris. A short time later, she was cast in her first adult role in a film, and in 1986 she achieved fame with her role opposite Yves Montand, playing the avenging daughter in French hit Manon des Sources. For her performance, she won the 1987 César Award for Best Supporting Actress. In the 1987 film Date with an Angel, she starred as the Angel. In 1995, she won the Silver St. George award for Best Actress at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival for her starring role in film A French Woman.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1995 |title=19th Moscow International Film Festival (1995) |access-date=20 March 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322162953/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1995 |archive-date=22 March 2013}}

In addition to her award for Best Supporting Actress, she has also been nominated for another seven César Awards for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress. Béart received Most Promising Actress nominations for A Strange Passion and Love on the Quiet; followed by Best Actress nominations for Children of Chaos, La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker), Un cœur en hiver (A Heart in Winter), Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (Nelly and Mr Arnaud), and Les Destinées Sentimentales (Sentimental Destinies)

In the 5 May 2003 issue of the French edition of Elle magazine, Béart, aged 39, appeared nude:{{cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/actress%20conceals%20grief%20at%20cannes |work=Contactmusic.com |date=25 May 2003 |title=Actress Conceals Grief At Cannes |publisher=World Entertainment News Network |access-date=21 April 2020}} The entire run of 550,000 copies sold out in just three days, making it the biggest-selling issue in the fashion glossy's long history.Mottram, James (20 June 2009). [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/emmanuelle-bart-sometimes-you-feel-more-naked-when-youre-totally-dressed-than-the-other-way-round-1707652.html Emmanuelle Béart: 'Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way round']. The Independent. Retrieved 21 April 2020.

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In the mid-1980s, Béart began a relationship with Daniel Auteuil (her co-star in Love on the Quiet, Manon des Sources, A Heart in Winter and A French Woman). They married in 1993 and divorced in 1995. Béart was romantically linked to music producer David François Moreau (from c. 1995 after she separated from Auteuil){{cite web |url=http://www.superiorpics.com/emmanuelle_beart/ |work=SuperiorPics.com |year=2009 |title=Manon of the Spring |access-date=19 June 2010}} and to film producer Vincent Meyer for two years until his suicide in May 2003. She has three children, including Nelly Auteuil (born c. 1993) and Johan Moreau (born c. 1996). She married actor Michaël Cohen on 13 August 2008 at Genappe in Belgium, and in 2009 they adopted a child from Ethiopia, named Surafel. Béart and Cohen separated in 2011. In 2011, she began a romantic relationship with director and cinematographer Frédéric Chaudier.{{Cite web|url=https://sivertimes.com/photos-emmanuelle-beart-and-her-lover-frederic-chaudier-accomplices-for-a-glamorous-evening-gala/90835|title=PHOTOS – Emmanuelle Béart and her lover Frédéric Chaudier accomplices for a glamorous evening Gala|website=The Siver Times|date=16 January 2018|access-date=21 April 2020}}

In addition to her screen work, Béart is known for her social activism. She is an ambassador for UNICEF, and has made news for her opposition to France's anti-immigration legislation. In 1996, she made headlines when, defending the rights of the "sans-papiers" ("without papers", meaning irregular immigrants), she was removed after her group's occupation of a Parisian church.

In March 2012, Béart spoke out against plastic surgery in Le Monde, saying that she regretted having an operation on her lips in 1990 when she was 27.[http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2012/03/02/emmanuelle-beart-la-chirurgie-esthetique-ca-a-ete-effroyable_1651333_3246.html Emmanuelle Béart : la chirurgie esthétique, "ça a été effroyable"]. Le Monde (in French). 2 March 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2020.{{cite news |author1=World Entertainment News Network |title=Emmanuelle Beart Scared Of Needles After Botched Lip Job |url=https://admin.contactmusic.com/emmanuelle-beart/news/emmanuelle-beart-scared-of-needles-after-botched-lip-job_1302735 |website=ContactMusic.com |access-date=6 December 2021 |date=12 March 2012 |quote=French actress Emmanuelle Beart has been left terrified of needles after undergoing a botched operation to plump up her lips.....In an interview with French newspaper Le Monde, she says, "I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job." "It is a grave act in which you don't necessarily foresee all the consequences. Just the idea of an injection these days devastates me."}}

In a 2023 documentary, she revealed that she was a victim of incest as a child but declined to reveal the identity of the abuser, only stating that it was not her father.{{cite news |last1=Saunders |first1=Emma |title=Emmanuelle Béart: French actress says she was victim of incest |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66721298 |access-date=5 September 2023 |work=BBC News |date=5 September 2023}}

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• Le grand Poucet (1980)
• Zacharius (1984)
• Raison perdue (1984)
• La femme de sa vie (1986)
• Et demain viendra le jour (1986)
• Les jupons de la révolution (1 episode, 1989)
• D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires (2005)

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