Audrey Tautou

Audrey Tautou, the oldest of four siblings was born on August 8, 1976 in Beaumont Puy-de-Domme. Audrey's parents as a dentist as well as a teacher, understood and supported their daughter's passion for theater and drama at the age of a stage novice. The support they provided was more than enough to overcome her original goal of becoming a primatologist. As a young woman, her rise to stardom was swift and ended with early successes. Prior to beginning her acting career, Tautou took part in Jeunes Premiers a French show on TV that focuses on talent which was a part of Canal+ in 1998. She also won the title of Best Young Actress for her performance in the Beziers Festival of Young Actors. Tautou is a pupil of in the Institut Catholique de Paris in Paris when she was a kid and enrolled in the school at an early age but has sworn off her Catholic education. Now, she declares herself to be non-Catholic. The modeling and acting careers of Tautou have been interspersed. Her image was the mainstay of L'Oreal Mont Blanc Chanel, and is known as The Chanel Muse. Photographing is also a obsession and she was recently shown her work at the Arles festival under the name Superficial. The focus of her photography is celebrities, fame and the media who scrutinized her following her emergence on the scene as Amelie. Also, she has several photographs that show her self. Audrey Tautou rose to fame and stardom with her major performance in Le Fabuleux of Amelie Poulain. Amelie was a box-office international film that received acclaim at award ceremonies around the globe. The film is still the top-grossing French language film in the US. In the following year, she appeared in British dramas like Stephen Knight's Dirty Pretty Things as well as Jean-Pierre Jeunet The long day of the fiancailles. After that, Tautou went to Hollywood to work in Hollywood, where Ron Howard directed the Dan Brown bestseller The Da Vinci Code.