Name: Audrey Tautou
Date of Birth: 9 August 1976
She nearly never got the chance to play the wonderful Am?lie Poulain, as director Jean-Pierre Jeunet was considering British actress Emily Watson for the role of Am?lie.
Was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in June 2004. Is now a member.
She speaks excellent English.
Ranked #29 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
Grew up in Montlucon in central France.
Although invited, she did not plan on attending the private screening of Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) organized and attended by President Jacques Chirac. She had a previous engagement with her brother (he was sworn in as a policeman that day). Director Jeunet told the French president that she was in Portugal. When she finally showed up, Jacques Chirac told her he thought she was in Portugal; she simply answered "you'll have to check your sources".
... When Emily Watson dropped out of Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001), director Jean-Pierre Jeunet cast Tautou after seeing her on a billboard of the movie Vénus beauté (institut) (1999) in Paris near his home in Bastille.
After Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001), she and her sister went on a roadtrip in Indonesia where no one recognized her.
Favourite authors are Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde and Paul Auster.
Favourite poets are Charles Baudelaire and Tristan Tzara.
Favourite music composers are Ravel, Mozart and Frédéric Chopin.
Once was told by a medium that she was going to be mother of twins at age 30.
Studied at the Cours Florent in Paris.
Also studied literature at university.
Her father is a dental surgeon and her mother is a teacher.
She said that Meryl Streep, Paul Newman, Juliette Lewis, Jodie Foster and Julianne Moore are her idols.
Band Brand New has song named after her, titled 'Tautou' featured on their album Deja Entendu.
French citizen.
Shares birthday with writer Robert Shaw, and soccer players Filippo Inzaghi and Michael Silvestre.
Loves painting. Her favorite painters are Turner, Manet, Schiele, Ingres and Delacroix.
Favourite movies are Barry Lyndon (1975) and À bout de souffle (1960).
Grew up in Montlu?on in central France.
Is the eldest of four children. She has a brother and two sisters.
She takes pictures of her interviewers and puts them in scrapbook.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#62). [2007].
Boyfriend is rock singer Mathieu Chedid, also known as "M".
Former boyfriends include Topher Grace, Nuno Sousa and Lance Mazmanian.
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