Cotillard, Marion, << coh tee AHRD, MEHR ee uhn >> (1975-…), is a French actress. She won the Academy Award for best actress for her performance in La Vie en Rose (2007). In that movie, Cotillard portrayed the legendary French singer Edith Piaf. It was the first time an Oscar was awarded for a French-language role.
Cotillard was born on Sept. 30, 1975, in Paris. She grew up in Alfortville, a suburb of Paris, before her family moved to Orléans. Her father was an actor and director, and her mother was an actress and drama teacher. Cotillard made her acting debut as a child in one of her father’s plays. She studied drama at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique in Orléans. She had small roles in theater and acted in a few television series in the early 1990’s. Cotillard made her motion-picture debut in the French romantic drama L’histoire du garçon qui voulait qu’on l’embrasse (1994). In 1996, she had the title role in the French made-for-television film Chloé. Cotillard’s first major screen role was as the girlfriend of a delivery boy in the French crime comedy Taxi (1998). She reprised the role in the sequels Taxi 2 (2000) and Taxi 3 (2003). Cotillard made her Hollywood debut in the Tim Burton fantasy Big Fish (2003).
Cotillard’s other notable films include Pretty Things (2001), A Very Long Engagement (2004), Public Enemies and Nine (both 2009), Inception (2010), Midnight in Paris and Contagion (both 2011), The Dark Knight Rises and Rust and Bone (both 2012), The Immigrant (2013), Two Days, One Night (2014), Macbeth (2015), Allied (2016), and Ismael’s Ghosts (2017). She provided the voice of Tutu the fox in Dolittle (2020).
