Juliette Binoche

She is the highest paid film actress in the history of France. Tia Carrere divorced her husband Elie Samaha in February of 2000; she married again, this time to photojournalist Simon Wakelin on December 31, 2002. In addition to her numerous motion picture roles, Binoche has starred on Broadway. In August of 2003, Carrere was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and she is reportedly working on a new album in her home studio. In 2000 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the film Chocolat, based on the novel by Joanne Harris. In 1993 her first solo album, Dream, was released, and went platinum in the Philippines. In 1996 her role as Hana, a Canadian nurse tending to a wounded stranger during WWII, in the blockbuster film The English Patient, brought her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Carrere has continued to nurture her singing career.

Her performance brought much praise and the offer of leading roles including in Three Colors: Blue, part 1 of Krzysztof Kieslowski's highly acclaimed Three Colors trilogy, for which she won the 1993 Cesar Award for best actress. During her career, in addition to winning, she has been nominated five times for the Cesar Award for Best Actress. People magazine, in 1992, named her to its annual "50 most beautiful people" list. She was 24 when she received her first big break with a role in Philip Kaufman's film The Unbearable Lightness of Being. A striking Asian beauty, Carrere modelled nude for the January 2003 issue of Playboy magazine; years before, however, she had used a body double for a nude scene in Showdown in Little Tokyo. While trying to build her career over the next five years, she worked as a clerk at a Paris department store and earned extra cash as a painter's model. Most recently, Carrere provided the voice of Lilo's sister "Nani" in the animated film Lilo and Stitch (2002) and its spinoffs. At age 18 she was given a bit part in the small independent film Liberty Belle. The syndicated series lasted for a total of three television seasons before its cancellation.

Born to a movie-director father and an actress mother, at age 15 she was sent to Paris to study at a specialized arts high school, after which she attended the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. From 1999 to 2002, Tia Carrere starred as archaeology professor Sydney Fox in Relic Hunter, an action-adventure series reminiscent of the Indiana Jones films. Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. Other roles in prominent films followed her role in Wayne's World, however, including the part of villain Juno Skinner in True Lies (a 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger action film) and secretary Victoria Chapell in High School High (a 1996 parody). 1993 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Damage. On November 22, 1992, Carrere married Italian/Lebanese producer Elie Samaha, and she has appeared in several of his films - none of which have achieved widespread success. 1994 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue. She also turned down a role in the series Baywatch to audition for "Wayne's World.".

1996 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Le Hussard sur le toit - (The Horseman on the Roof). A trained singer, Carrere performed all of her own songs in the two films, and the "Wayne's World" soundtrack features her vocals. 1997 - Golden Globe Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. She emerged into the public spotlight when cast as Cassandra, a rock singer and love interest of Mike Myers' character Wayne, in Wayne's World (1992) - a role she reprised the next year in Wayne's World 2. 1997 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. Her character was dropped after one episode, and was never mentioned again. 2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Cast - Chocolat. Unfortunately, her General Hospital obligations prevented her from joining the team.

2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. During this time, she also had a guest appearance on The A-Team, which was supposed to lead to her joining the cast. 2001 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. Following this initial success, Carrere relocated to Los Angeles and, after several months working as a model, landed a role in the daytime soap opera General Hospital from 1985-87. 2001 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Widow Of Saint-Pierre. Although she was eliminated during the first round of her 1985 Star Search appearance at the age of 17, she was spotted by the parents of a local producer while shopping at a Waikiki grocery store and was cast in the role of Lani in Aloha Summer. 2001 - British Academy Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. Born Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo, Carrere, of mixed Spanish, Chinese, and Filipino heritage, longed to be a singer as a child.

2001 - Academy Award for Best Actress - Chocolat. 2 January 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American actress, model, and singer, most widely known for her role as Cassandra in the feature film Wayne's World.. 1992 - European Film Award - Best Actress - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. Tia Carrere (b. 1993 - Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale Camera. 1993 - Venice Film Festival - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue.

1994 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue. 1996 - National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - European Film Award - Best Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - British Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient.

1997 - Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient.