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Who is Marion Cotillard?

Marion Cotillard was born September 30th, 1975 in Paris, France. She comes from a family full of highly artistic people including an actress mother, and father who is an actor-director (and even a mime) able to start Cotillard on her present course by putting her on stage in his plays while she was a child. By 1993 Cotillard had her first on screen credit in the Highlander t.v. series, and by 1996 landed the title role in a t.v. show called Chloe. But the current phase of her career started in the movie Taxi (1998), a comedy/adventure for which she was nominated a Cesar Award (French Oscar equivalent) for Most Promising Actress. But being taken seriously as a talent started around the time of the movie Lisa (2001) with her playing the young version of the title character and French screen grand dame Jeanne Moreau (Elevator to the Gallows) as the older Lisa. This garnered Cotillard her first acting award. In 2005 she finally won the coveted Cesar for Best Supporting Actress in A Very Long Engagement starring Audrey Tautou. Her recent star turn in La Mome (2007) in which she depicts the biography of French legendary singer, Edith Piaf, has received 3 film festival awards and great reviews for the actress including one marveling that Cotillard made the real Piaf seem a phony by comparison.