Sandrine Bonnaire

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Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire Deauville 2012.jpg
Sandrine Bonnaire as president of the
2012 Deauville American Film Festival
Born (1967-05-31) 31 May 1967 (age 56)
Gannat, France
Occupation Actress, Film director, Screenwriter
Years active 1982–present
Spouse(s) Guillaume Laurant (m. 2003)

Sandrine Bonnaire (born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter, who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for À nos amours (1983), the César Award for Best Actress for Vagabond (1985) and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for La Cérémonie (1995). Her other films include Under the Sun of Satan (1987), Monsieur Hire (1989), East/West (1999) and The Final Lesson (2015).

Life and career

Sandrine Bonnaire at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in 1983, when she starred in the Maurice Pialat film À nos amours. She played a girl from Paris beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984, she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress.

Her international breakthrough came in 1986 when she played the main character in Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond), directed by Agnès Varda, for which she won her second César Award. She portrays a vagrant who fails both physically and morally. The film Monsieur Hire directed by Patrice Leconte followed in 1989, along with further work with directors Jacques Doillon and Claude Sautet.

In 1995, she starred as an apparently simple maid in Claude Chabrol's widely acclaimed thriller La Cérémonie. The film and its stars won awards internationally, including for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for both Bonnaire and co-star Isabelle Huppert.

In 2004, she starred in another Patrice Leconte's film: Intimate Strangers, which was an arthouse box office hit in the United States.[1]

Personal life

Bonnaire has a daughter, Jeanne, from a relationship with actor William Hurt, whom she met in 1991 during filming of the Albert Camus novel La Peste (The Plague). They acted together in Secrets Shared with a Stranger (1994). Since March 2003 she has been married to actor and screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, with whom she has had a second daughter, Adèle.

Selected filmography

Bonnaire at the 2009 66th Venice International Film Festival as member of the jury.

As actress

Year Title Role Director
1983 À nos amours Suzanne Maurice Pialat
1984 Tir à vue[2] ("Fire on Sight"[3]) Marilyn Marc Angelo
1985 Blanche et Marie[4] Marie Jacques Renard
Le meilleur de la vie[5] ("A better Life"[6]) Veronique Renaud Victor
Police Lydie Maurice Pialat
Sans toit ni loi ("Vagabond") Mona Bergeron Agnès Varda
1986 La Puritaine[7][8] ("The Prude"[9]) Manon Jacques Doillon
1987 Sous le soleil de Satan Mouchette Maurice Pialat
Jaune revolver[10][11] Angèle[12] Olivier Langlois
Les Innocents Jeanne André Téchiné
1988 Quelques jours avec moi ("A Few Days With Me"[13]) Francine Claude Sautet
Peaux de vaches Annie Patricia Mazuy
1989 Monsieur Hire Alice Patrice Leconte
1990 La Captive du désert the captive Raymond Depardon
Verso sera (aka Dans la soirée) Stella Francesca Archibugi
1991 Le ciel de Paris ("The Sky Above Paris"[14]) Suzanne Michel Béna
La Peste ("The Plague"[15]) Martine Luis Puenzo
1992 Prague Elena Ian Sellar
1994 Joan the Maiden, Part 1: The Battles and Joan the Maiden, Part 2: The Prisons Joan of Arc Jacques Rivette
1995 Les Cent et une Nuits de Simon Cinéma the female vagabond Agnès Varda
La Cérémonie Sophie Claude Chabrol
1996 Never Ever Katherine Charles Finch
1997 Die Schuld der Liebe[16][17] ("Debt of Love"[18]) Monika Andreas Gruber
1998 Secret défense as Sylvie Jacques Rivette
1999 Au cœur du mensonge Vivianne Claude Chabrol
Est-Ouest Marie Régis Wargnier
2001 Mademoiselle[19] Claire Philippe Lioret
C'est la vie[20] Suzanne Jean-Pierre Améris
2002 Femme fatale as herself Brian De Palma
2003 Resistance Lucette Todd Komarnicki
2004 Confidences trop intimes Anna Patrice Leconte
Le Cou de la girafe ("The Giraffe’s Neck"[21]) Hélène Safy Nebbou
L'Équipier Mabé Philippe Lioret
2006 Je crois que je l'aime ("Could This Be Love?"[22]) Elsa Pierre Jolivet
Demandez la permission aux enfants[23] Marie Eric Civanyan
2007 Un Coeur Simple[24] ("Simple Heart"[25]) Félicité Marion Laine
2008 L'Empreinte de l'ange Claire Safy Nebbou
2009 Joueuse Hélène Caroline Bottaro
2013 Adieu Paris Françoise Dupret Franziska Buch
2014 Salaud, on t'aime Nathalie Beranger Claude Lelouch
Soul of a Spy Jacqueline Vladimir Bortko
Rouge sang (TV movie) Jacqueline Xavier Durringer
2015 The Final Lesson Diane Pascale Pouzadoux

As director/screenwriter

Year Title Cast Notes
2007 Elle s'appelle Sabine (Her Name is Sabine) her sister Sabine documentary about a medical condition
2011 J'enrage de son absence[26] William Hurt, Alexandra Lamy feature film

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Film Result
1984 César Award Most Promising Actress À nos amours Won
1986 César Award Best Actress Sans toit ni loi Won
1988 César Award Best Actress Sous le soleil de Satan Nominated
1990 César Award César Award Monsieur Hire Nominated
1995 César Award Best Actress Joan the Maiden Nominated
Volpi Cup (Venice Film Festival) Best Actress La Cérémonie Won
1996 César Award Best Actress La Cérémonie Nominated
2000 César Award Best Actress Est-Ouest Nominated

References

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