Films starring Juliette Binoche

Born in Paris into a theatrical family, Juliette Binoche has been amassing prestigious awards and nominations ever since she decided to concentrate on cinema in the mid-1980s. She received the first of her eight César citations for André Téchiné's intense study of artistic and physical passion, Rendez-vous (1985), which shot her to stardom in Fr... show more >

Born in Paris into a theatrical family, Juliette Binoche has been amassing prestigious awards and nominations ever since she decided to concentrate on cinema in the mid-1980s. She received the first of her eight César citations for André Téchiné's intense study of artistic and physical passion, Rendez-vous (1985), which shot her to stardom in France. However, it was her English-language debut, in Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1986), that brought her to international attention.

Subsequently, Binoche has always been in demand at home and in Hollywood. In 1989, she won the European Film Award for her bravura display as an artist whose deteriorating sight tips her into a reckless passion with homeless Denis Lavant in Léos Carax's Les Amants du Pont-Neuf and the César and the Best Actress prize at Venice followed for her heartbreaking performance as a widow who reconnects with life by completing her composer husband's last work in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue (1993).

She next revealed her facility for period pictures, accompanying dashing officer Olivier Martinez on a search around 1830s France for her missing spouse in Jean-Paul Rappeneau's The Horseman on the Roof (1995) and nursing Second World War casualty Ralph Fiennes in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ("I'm so amazed, this is a dream, it must be a French dream, I think").

The ensuing decade has seen Binoche demonstrate her versatility by romancing Johnny Depp in Lasse Hallström's adaptation of Joanne Harris's bestseller, Chocolat (2000), and co-starring with the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Gere, Jude Law and Steve Carel. However, she has also remained a darling of the arthouse crowd, whether championing such rising French talents as Cédric Klapisch (Paris, 2008) and Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours, 2008) or collaborating with established masters like Michael Haneke (Code Unknown, 2000 & Hidden, 2005), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon, 2007) and Abbas Kiarostami (Shirin, 2008). < show less