Anne Parillaud
Anne Parillaud is a French actress who has been active since 1977. She is best known internationally for playing the title character in Luc Besson's film La Femme Nikita.
Biography
Parillaud was born in Paris, France. While in school she studied ballet and her ambition was to become a lawyer, but a role during summer vacation – when she was only 16 – in Michel Lang's L'hôtel de la plage launched her into the world of film. She had a three-year relationship with actor Alain Delon and co-starred with him in his only two films as director, Pour la peau d'un flic and Le Battant. She then met director Luc Besson and married him in 1986, but the couple separated shortly after he directed her in La Femme Nikita. La Femme Nikita was an especially intense experience for Parillaud:After the international success of La Femme Nikita, Parillaud left France to star in three films abroad: Map of the Human Heart, Innocent Blood, and Frankie Starlight. She has said regarding the experience of playing a vampire in John Landis's Innocent Blood:
In 2010 she starred in the French psychological thriller In Their Sleep which was directed by Caroline du Potet and Eric du Potet.
Personal life
Parillaud's first husband was Luc Besson, with whom she has a daughter. In 2005 she married Jean Michel Jarre. They divorced in 2010.Selected filmography
Year | Title | Role | Director |
1977 | Un amour de sable | uncredited | Christian Lara |
1978 | L'Hôtel de la plage | Estelle Delambre | Michel Lang |
1979 | Écoute voir | Chloé/Moune | Hugo Santiago |
1980 | Girls | Catherine Flavin | Just Jaeckin |
1980 | Patrizia | Patricia Cook | Hubert Frank |
1981 | :fr:Pour la peau d'un flic|Pour la peau d'un flic | Charlotte | Alain Delon |
1983 | :fr:Le Battant|Le Battant | Nathalie | Alain Delon |
1988 | Juillet en septembre | Marie | Sébastien Japrisot |
1989 | Che ora è? | Loredana | Ettore Scola |
1990 | La Femme Nikita | Nikita | Luc Besson |
1992 | Innocent Blood | Marie | John Landis |
1993 | Map of the Human Heart | Albertine | Vincent Ward |
1994 | À la folie | Alice | Diane Kurys |
1995 | Frankie Starlight | Bernadette | Michael Lindsay-Hogg |
1996 | :fr:Passage à l'acte|Passage à l'acte | Isabelle | Francis Girod |
1996 | Dead Girl | Helen Catherine Howe | Adam Coleman Howard |
1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Queen Mother Anne of Austria | Randall Wallace |
1998 | Shattered Image | Jessie Markham | Raúl Ruiz |
1999 | Une pour toutes | Olga Duclos | Claude Lelouch |
2002 | Gangsters | Nina Delgado | Olivier Marchal |
2002 | Sex Is Comedy | Jeanne | Catherine Breillat |
2004 | Deadlines | Julia Müller | Ludi Boeken and Michael A. Lerner |
2004 | Promised Land | Anne | Amos Gitai |
2005 | :fr:Tout pour plaire|Tout pour plaire | Florence | Cécile Telerman |
2007 | :fr:Demandez la permission aux enfants|Demandez la permission aux enfants | Anna Sebag | :fr:Éric Civanyan|Éric Civanyan |
2007 | Une vieille maîtresse | Mme de Solcy | Catherine Breillat |
2009 | L'Imbroglio Nel Lenzuolo | Beatrice | Alfonso Arau |
2010 | In Their Sleep | Sarah | Caroline Du Potet and Eric Du Potet |
2010 | la marquise des ombres | Madame de Brinvilliers | |
2012 | What the Day Owes the Night | Madame Cazenave |
Awards
- César Award for Best Actress in 1991 for La Femme Nikita
- David di Donatello Awards for Best Foreign Actress in 1991 for La Femme Nikita
- Paris Film Festival for Best Actress in 2004 for Deadlines
- Tokyo International Film Festival for Special Mention in 1993 for Map of the Human Heart