Juliette Binoche

She is the highest paid film actress in the history of France. During the meeting, they looked at each other in the eye and both said, "Ruthie", resulting in Burress playing as Ruthie Walker. In addition to her numerous motion picture roles, Binoche has starred on Broadway. However, director Jamie Blanks still wanted Burress to star in the motion picture. 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. Burress auditioned for the role of Dorothy Wheeler in the motion picture Valentine, but that role was handed over to Jessica Capshaw. 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. She is also slated to reprise the role of Yuna in the fortcoming sequel to Kingdom Hearts.

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. Several gamers believe that Burress did better in Final Fantasy X-2 than she did in Final Fantasy X, and believed that she took voice lessons between the two projects. She was 24 when she received her first big break with a role in Philip Kaufman's film The Unbearable Lightness of Being. She has been accused of synchronizing Yuna's CG lips, which were programmed to speak Japanese, not English. 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. Her Yuna performance in Final Fantasy X is controversial and considered by some players to be grating. At age 18 she was given a bit part in the small independent film Liberty Belle. Burress is known by video game players as the English voice actor of Yuna in the PlayStation 2 games Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2.

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. She has acted in many television programs and motion pictures since 1996. Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. She relocated to Los Angeles, California, in 1995. 1993 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Damage. She attended Milikin University in Decatur, Illinois. 1994 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue. She was born Heather Burress in Edwardsville, Illinois.

1996 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Le Hussard sur le toit - (The Horseman on the Roof). Hedy Burress (born October 3, 1973) is an American actress. 1997 - Golden Globe Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. Kingdom Hearts 2 (2005) - Yuna. 1997 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. Final Fantasy X-2 (2003) - Yuna. 2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Cast - Chocolat. The Animatrix (2003) - Cis (segment "Program"), Yoko (segment "Beyond").

2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. Final Fantasy X (2001) - Yuna. 2001 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. Silver Lake (2004) - Julie Patterson. 2001 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Widow Of Saint-Pierre. Open House (2004) - Gloria Hobbs. 2001 - British Academy Award - Best Actress - Chocolat. Death by Committee (2004) - Cindy.

2001 - Academy Award for Best Actress - Chocolat. Open House (2003) - Gloria Hobbs. 1992 - European Film Award - Best Actress - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. Bug (2002) - Roy. 1993 - Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale Camera. Valentine (2001) - Ruthie Walker. 1993 - Venice Film Festival - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue. Cabin by the Lake (2000) - Mallory McCall.

1994 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Three Colors: Blue. Looking for Bobby D (2000) - Belinda. 1996 - National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. Tick Tock (2000) - Anne. 1997 - European Film Award - Best Actress - The English Patient. Getting Personal (1999) - Melissa Parks. 1997 - British Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. Swing Vote (1999).

1997 - Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actress - The English Patient. Los Años Bárbaros (1998) - Kathy. 1997 - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient. Any Mother's Son (1997) - Kathy. Foxfire (1996) - Madeline "Maddy" Wirtz. If These Walls Could Talk (1996) - Linda Barrows.

Seduced By Madness (1996) - Brook Borchardt.