French Celebrity

Gérard Depardieu:
Born in Châteauroux, France, in 1948, Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is one of the most famous and influential French actors of all times. He acted in more than fifty films and he’s also a director and producer (he has a production company called DD Productions). “La femme d’à côté”, by François Truffaut, was one of the films that first gave him prestige as an actor in France, and then, in the nineties, he became famous in America as well. In the year 1990, he was nominated to an Academy Award for Best Leading Actor for his performance in the film “Cyrano de Bergerac” and, in the same year, he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in the American film “Green Card”. He’s also known for his role as Obelix in the Asterix films and for his role in the film “Hamlet” in 1996. He’s curren.

Hubert de Givenchy

Born in Beauvais, France, in 1927, Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy is the famous fashion designer, founder of The House of Givenchy (1952). His most famous customers were Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Gloria Guinness, Babe Paley, the Duchess of Windsor, Mona von Bismarck and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. He retired from fashion design in 1995.

Juliette Binoche:

Juliette Binoche was born in Paris in 1964. As one of the most famous French actresses in the past years, Binoche has been a part of more than forty French and American films. “The unbearable lightness of being” (1988), by director Philip Kaufman, was the film that first gave her international recognition. Her performance in “The English patient” next to Ralph Fiennes in 1996 was awarded with the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was also nominated for the Oscars in 2000 for her interpretation in the film “Chocolat”. For some years she was the advertising face of the fragrance “Poème” by Lancôme. She’s won been a part of several charity programs and, in 2008, she published a bilingual book called "Juliette Binoche, Portraits In-Eyes".