Marina Hands
{{Short description|French actress (born 1975)}}
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| name = Marina Hands
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1975|01|10}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| yearsactive = 1996–present
| occupation = Actress
| alma_mater = London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
| parents = Terry Hands
Ludmila Mikaël
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Marina Hands (born 10 January 1975) is a French stage and film actress. Hands is the daughter of British director Terry Hands and French actress Ludmila Mikaël, and the granddaughter of Ukrainian-Greek painter {{Interlanguage link multi|Pierre Dmitrienko|fr}}. She studied acting at the Cours Florent and the CNSAD in France, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in England.
Life and career
In 1999, she made her stage debut in Le Bel Air de Londres by Dion Boucicault, and was nominated for a Molière Award. Her first film was Andrzej Żuławski's La Fidélité (2000), followed by The Barbarian Invasions (2003). She then appeared in Les Âmes grises (2005), for which she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress, and Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One) (2006).
Her most notable performance to date was in the title role of Lady Chatterley (2006), an adaptation of John Thomas and Lady Jane by D. H. Lawrence. Hands won the 2007 César Award for Best Actress for her performance.
In 2006, Hands became a company member of the Comédie-Française. In 2008, she was again nominated for a Molière Award for her play in Partage de midi.
In 2011, she starred in Claude Miller's film Voyez comme ils dansent.
In 2019, she played Elvira in the TV series Mythomaniac.
Theatre
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title ! Author ! Director ! Notes |
| 1996
| Gertrud | Gérard Desarthe | |
| rowspan=2|1997
| John Bashford | |
| The Merchant of Venice
| Penny Cherns | |
| rowspan=2|1998
| Adrian Brine | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Female Newcomer |
| The Giants of the Mountain
| |
| 1999
| Didier Long | |
| 2001
| |
| 2003
| Phèdre | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2004
| Thierry de Peretti | |
| 2006
| Tête d'or | Anne Delbée | |
| rowspan=2|2007
| Partage de midi | Yves Beaunesne | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Actress |
| The Misanthrope
| Molière | |
| rowspan=2|2009
| |
| Partage de midi
| Yves Beaunesne (2) | |
| rowspan=2|2013
| Lucie Berelowitsch | |
| Iphigenia in Tauris
| Clément Hervieu-Léger | |
| 2015
| Ivanov | |
Filmography
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! Year ! Title ! Role ! Director ! Notes |
| rowspan=1|1996
| Sans regrets | The woman | Short |
| rowspan=1|2000
| Fidelity | Julia | |
| rowspan=1|2001
| Un pique-nique chez Osiris | Héloïse Ancelin | TV movie |
| rowspan=1|2002
| Sur le bout des doigts | Juliette | |
| rowspan=3|2003
| Gaëlle | |
| À la fenêtre
| The girl | Marianne Østengen | Short |
| Phèdre
| Aricie | Stéphane Metge | TV movie |
| rowspan=1|2004
| Mon homme | Marie | Stéphanie Tchou-Cotta | Short |
| rowspan=1|2005
| Lysia Verhareine | Yves Angelo (2) | Nominated – César Award for Most Promising Actress |
| rowspan=2|2006
| Constance Chatterley | César Award for Best Actress |
| Tell No One
| Anne Beck | Guillaume Canet (2) | |
| rowspan=2|2007
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Joséphine | Nominated – International Cinephile Society Award for Best Ensemble |
| Le temps d'un regard
| Natalya | Ilan Flammer | |
| rowspan=1|2008
| Story of Jen | Sarah | |
| rowspan=2|2009
| Audrey | |
| Change of Plans
| Juliette | |
| rowspan=2|2010
| Anna | |
| Ensemble, nous allons vivre une très, très grande histoire d'amour... | Dorothée Duchamp | |
| rowspan=4|2011
| Lise Clément | |
| Sport de filles
| Gracieuse | |
| Pour Djamila
| TV movie |
| Partage de midi
| Ysé | TV movie |
| rowspan=1|2013
| Nadia | |
| rowspan=3|2014
| Inès | |
| GHB: To Be or Not to Be
| Gil / Henrietta / Fleur | |
| Les jours venus
| Marie | Romain Goupil | |
| 2015
| Chic! | Hélène Birk | Jérôme Cornuau | |
| 2017
| Taboo | Countess Musgrove | Anders Engström | TV series |
| 2018
| Guy | Kris-Eva | |
| 2019
|Elvira |Fabrice Gobert | Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actress |
References
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External links
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- {{Allocine name|id=74775}}
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Category:Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Category:Best Actress César Award winners
Category:Best Actress Lumières Award winners
Category:French film actresses
Category:French stage actresses
Category:French television actresses
Category:French people of English descent
Category:French people of Ukrainian descent
Category:French people of Greek descent
Category:Troupe of the Comédie-Française
Category:20th-century French actresses
Category:21st-century French actresses