ACTOR
Emmanuelle Béart
- Known for
- 8 femmes (2002), Manon des sources (1986), Nathalie... (2003), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
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Emmanuelle Béart is an actor best known for 8 femmes, Manon des sources and Nathalie....
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- #001
In 2003, at the age of 40, Béart appeared nude on the front cover of the French magazine Elle, and as of 2007 it remains the magazine's best-selling issue.
- #002
She has an adopted son named Surifel Cohen (b. 2010) with her second husband Michaël Cohen, from whom she is currently estranged. They adopted him from Ethiopia when he was 8 months old.
- #003
In 2012, Béart admitted to the media that she had undergone plastic surgery on her lips at the age of 27, and she now regrets it and regards it as a "botched" procedure.
- #004
In the 1990s she had a contract with Dior.
- #005
In 1997 she was arrested in Paris for defending the rights of the sans-papiers (undocumented immigrants).
- #006
On 13 August 2008, she married Michaël Cohen, her partner of 2 years, for the second time.
- #007
She was raised by her mother in a remote mountain village. As a young woman she went to Montreal, where she apparently met Robert Altman, who encouraged her to become an actress. She did a screen test for him, but nothing came of it.
- #008
She is an ambassador for UNICEF and the United Nations Children's Fund.
- #009
On 18 April 1992, at the age of 28, she gave birth to her first child, Nelly Auteuil. The child's father is her fiancé (now her first ex-husband), Daniel Auteuil.
- #010
Known for her social activism, she is a UNICEF ambassador and has made headlines for opposing France's anti-immigration legislation. In 1996, while defending the rights of the "sans-papiers" (undocumented immigrants), she made headlines when she was forcibly removed after her group occupied a church in Paris.
- #011
On 17 April 1996, at the age of 32, she gave birth to her second child, Johan Moreau. The child's father is her former boyfriend David François Moreau.
- #012
She is the half-sister of photojournalist Olivier Guespin (b. 15 April 1965); Lison Guespin and Charlotte Guespin are from her mother's relationship with Jean-Yves Guespin, and Sarah Cerieix, Ivan Cerieix and journalist Mikis Cerieix (b. 19 January 1975) are from her mother's relationship with Jean-Jacques Cerieix.
- #013
She is the daughter of French singer and poet Guy Béart and Geneviève Galéa. They divorced. Emmanuelle has three brothers and one sister.
- #014
From 2001 until his suicide on 15 May 2003, she had a relationship with producer Vincent Meyer.
- #015
In 2004 she was a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival.
- #016
In 1987-1988 she was voted one of the most beautiful women in the world by the readers of the French magazine LUI (a monthly telematic poll), ranking 7th in April 1988.
- #017
Her father was born in Cairo, Egypt, of Egyptian Jewish and Russian Jewish descent. Her mother is of Belgian (Walloon) and Greek descent.
- #018
In 2011 she separated from Michaël Cohen, who had been her husband for less than 3 years.
- #019
At the age of 16 she joined the cast of the cult teen film The Party (1980).
- #020
She was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 sexiest stars in cinema history (#32).
- #021
Emmanuelle Béart appeared in two films with the same title: Hell (1994) and Hell (2005).
- #022
Emmanuelle Béart had a relationship with David François Moreau in the 1990s. They have a son together.
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