Juliette Binoche was born on March 9, 1964 in Paris, France. She is a French Academy Award-winning actress.

Juliette Binoche won an Oscar as best supporting actress for the 1996 movie The English Patient. Also she played the innocent Tereza in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) starred alongside Daniel Day-Lewis and the wandering shopkeeper Vianne in Chocolat (2000), with Johnny Depp. By 2006 Binoche had been eight times nominated for the César Award as best actress in France - she won once, for the 1993 movie Bleu - and she was again nominated for an Oscar as best actress for Chocolat.

Juliette likes to read Carlos Castaneda and Gitta Mallasz ( Dialogue avec l'ange ), participates in Alfred Tomatis' seminaries about voice, vibrations and spirituality. She's ravenous when it comes to Nutella ( a German nut & chocolate bread spread ). In the world of cinema she likes Nanni Moretti, Anna Magnani and Audrey Hepburn. Her idols are Arletty and Simone Signoret.

2007 will see Binoche appear in Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge by the Chinese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Dan in Real Life with Steve Carrel, Paris by Cédric Klapisch. She is also due to film Désengagement by Amos Gitai, Souvenirs du Valois by Olivier Assayas and Rithy Panh's Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique.

Filmography

• Another Kind of Silence (2008)
• Souvenirs du Valois (2008)
• Paris (2008)
• Dan in Real Life (2007)
• Désengagement (2007)
• À la recherche du ballon rouge (2007)
• Breaking and Entering (2006)
• Quelques jours en septembre (2006)
• Paris, je t'aime (2006)
• Mary (2005)
• Bee Season (2005)
• Caché (2005)
• Country of My Skull (2004)
• Décalage horaire (2002)
• Chocolat (2000)
• Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (2000)
• Veuve de Saint-Pierre, La (2000)
• Enfants du siècle, Les (1999)
• Alice et Martin (1998)
• The English Patient (1996)
• Un divan à New York (1996)
• Hussard sur le toit, Le (1995)
• Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
• Trzy kolory: Bialy (1994)
• Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)
• Damage (1992)
• Wuthering Heights (1992)
• Amants du Pont-Neuf, Les (1991)
• Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991)
• Un tour de manège (1989)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
• Mauvais sang (1986)
• Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1986)
• Meilleur de la vie, Le (1985)
• Rendez-vous (1985)
• Adieu blaireau (1985)
• Vie de famille, La (1985)
• Nanas, Les (1985)
• 'Je vous salue, Marie' (1985)
• Fort bloqué (1985)
• Dorothée, danseuse de corde (1983)
• Liberty belle (1983)

Awards

• European Film People's Choice Award Best Actress "Chocolat" 2001
• Theatre World Award "Betrayal" 2001
• Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Best Actress "The English Patient" 1997
• European Film Award Best Actress "The English Patient" 1997
• BAFTA Award Best Supporting Actress "The English Patient" 1996
• National Board of Review Award Best Supporting Actress "The English Patient" 1996
• Oscar Best Supporting Actress "The English Patient" 1996
• Cesar Best Actress "Trois Couleurs: Bleu" 1994
• Venice Film Festival Best Actress Award "Blue" 1993
• Felix Best European Actress "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf" 1992
• Romy Schneider Prize "Rendez-vous" 1986