Audrey Tautou

Actor

Audrey Tautou is a French actress who became an international star as the lead in the romantic comedy Amélie (Le Fabluleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, 2001). At the time she was already well-known in France as the star of Venus Beauty Salon (Vénus beauté (institut), 1999). Although she works mostly in her native language, she has also appeared in the English language film Dirty Pretty Things (2002, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor). Her other films include The Spanish Apartment (L'Auberge Espagnol, 2002), A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles, 2004, with Jodie Foster) and The Russian Dolls (Les Poupées russes, 2005). She plays a cryptographer opposite Tom Hanks (as a dashing symbologist) in The Da Vinci Code, the 2006 thriller based on the novel by Dan Brown.

Other popular French actresses include Juliette Binoche, Marie Trintignant and Catherine Deneuve.