Arletty

. She is the highest paid film actress in the history of France. Among her best-known films are:. In addition to her numerous motion picture roles, Binoche has starred on Broadway. After a moderately successful period as a stage actor in later life, an accident in 1963 left her nearly blind, forcing her to retire. 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 the 1930s she became associated with the growing French film industry, but was imprisoned in 1945 for having had a wartime liaison with a German officer during the occupation of France. 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.

Born in Courbevoie, France, her early career was dominated by the music hall. 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. Arletty (born Léonie Bathiat) (15 May 1898 - 24 July 1992) was a French model, singer, and actress. She was 24 when she received her first big break with a role in Philip Kaufman's film The Unbearable Lightness of Being. L'Air de Paris (1954). 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. Huis-clos (No Exit, 1954). At age 18 she was given a bit part in the small independent film Liberty Belle.

Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945). 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. Les Visiteurs du soir (1942). Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. Le Jour se lève (1939). 1993 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Damage. Hôtel du Nord (1938). 1994 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue.

1996 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Le Hussard sur le toit - (The Horseman on the Roof). 1997 - Golden Globe Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. 1997 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. 2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Cast - Chocolat.

2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. 2001 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. 2001 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Widow Of Saint-Pierre. 2001 - British Academy Award - Best Actress - Chocolat.

2001 - Academy Award for Best Actress - Chocolat. 1992 - European Film Award - Best Actress - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. 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.