Juliette Binoche

She is the highest paid film actress in the history of France. The venture allows her to participate in experimental theater. In addition to her numerous motion picture roles, Binoche has starred on Broadway. Cilento continued working as an actress both in films and television, and in the 1980s settled near Cairns Australia, where she built her own outdoor theater, named "Karnak", in the rainforest. 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. They are the parents of the actor Jason Connery. 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. Connery was the second of Cilento's three husbands, and they were married from 1962 until their divorce in 1973.

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. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Tom Jones (1963), but allowed her film career to decline following her marriage to actor Sean Connery. She was 24 when she received her first big break with a role in Philip Kaufman's film The Unbearable Lightness of Being. She quickly secured work in British films and steadily worked until the end of the decade without making a major impression with film audiences. 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. She decided at a young age to follow a career as an actress and moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1950s. At age 18 she was given a bit part in the small independent film Liberty Belle. Born to Raphael and Phyllis Cilento, both highly respected medical practitioners, Cilento and her family settled in Brisbane, Australia.

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. Diane Cilento (born October 5, 1933 in Rabaul Papua New Guinea) is a theater and film actress. Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. 1993 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Damage. 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.