Berenice Bejo is a French actress, Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, Cesar award winner. She is best known for the films "The Story of a Knight", "Agent 117" Cairo - Spy Nest "and" The Artist. "At the 66th Kansk Film Festival she was awarded the prize for Best Actress in the drama" The Past ".
Biography
Berenice Bejo is a French actress of Argentine origin, was born on July 7, 1976 in Buenos Aires (Argentina, where her parents, Miguel and Silvia Bejo lived. The artist's father is a little-known Argentine director and screenwriter who directed a couple of films in the 1970s. the birth of their daughter, the couple seriously thought about moving, the reason for which was the civil dictatorship of Argentina "National Reorganization Process", and in 1979 went to France, where they finally stayed.
Personal life
In the early 2000s, Berenice Bejo had an affair with New Zealand actor Martin Henders, who became famous after his role in the soap opera "Shortland Street", but this relationship did not last long.
Now the actress can be seen in a happy marriage with the French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius. The couple have two children: a son, Lucien, and a daughter, Gloria. The marriage helped her career a lot: the little-known Berenice became a star after participating in her husband's project. The spouse is an Oscar winner, and in addition, he twice received a BAFTA and a national Cesar award.
Career
The beginning of Berenice Bejo's creative activity is connected with her father, who, shortly after moving to France, helped to immerse herself in the cinematic atmosphere, enrolling her in the drama class "Les Enfants Terribles". Then spending a lot of time near the French commune "Rambouillet" explains his participation in the optional theater "Baccalaureate C" and his studies at the high school "Louis-Bascan".
For the first time on television screens, Berenice appeared in 1993 in the short films "Pain perdu" and "L'amour est a reinvente". She made her acting debut in 1996 when she played Lawrence in the French television movie Histories d'hommes. In 1998 he plays a role in the film "Les Sœurs Hamlet". In 2000, continuing her work, thanks to small roles in the films "La Captive" and "Passionnement", she gets her first major role in the work of Gerard Hugnot "Meilleur Espoir féminin". The actress played the role of Laetitia Rens, for which she received positive comments from well-known world film critics and was nominated for the Cesar Prize in the category “Most Promising Actress”.
A significant event in the filmography was the role in the romantic Hollywood film "Chevalier". The film, presented by Australian Heath Ledger, was distinguished by an international cast, where the writer Chaucer was portrayed by Briton Paul Bettany, the antagonist of the protagonist - also Englishman, Rufus Sewell, beauty Jocelyn - American from Honolulu Shannin Sossamon, and Christianou - Frenchwoman Berenice.
The success does not end there, for several years Bejo manages to play in a large number of diverse films: the role of a charming young girl in the film by Laurent Buchnik; disability drama Cavalcada; comedy "Le Grand Rôles" with Stevan Fries and Titoff.
In 2006, she reminded the public of herself by shining together as an officer in the action comedy "OSS 117: Le Caire, nid 'd'espions", the following year developed in the direction of short films such as "La Pomme d'Adam" and "La Maison ". In 2008 she appeared in two romantic productions: "Modern Love" and "Bouquet final". In the same year, Berenice gave birth to her first child, which put her career on hold for a while. In 2009 she participated in the documentary film "L'Enfer d'Henri-Gerges Clouzot" by Serge Bromberg. The documentary reconstructs Klozot's film, alternating real images and reading scenes between Jacques Gamblin and Berinis Bejo.
Various experiments on stage roles are gaining momentum by 2011, as evidenced by the publication of the work of Bejo's husband "The Artist". The silent comedy, in which Berenice played the main role, was well received by film critics and collected 10 Oscar nominations: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, etc., becoming the winner in 5 directions. Michel Hazanavicius wanted to talk about the first stars of the screens - when the era of sound came, many of them faded: someone let down the voice, but someone did not want to change the usual order of things. So the main character, whose fame had thundered all over the world, went very badly, and the role of a real star is taken by a girl from the crowd Pepper - the director's wife.
After such a bold image, the worldwide fame of the French actress was ensured. Later she joined the cast of the film about a young provincial woman "Populaire", which led to the awarding of various awards and participation in the nominations for "Best Supporting Role", "Best Supporting Actress" and others.
In December 2012, Bejo entered the "TOP-20 Women of the Year" according to the French newspaper "Le Figaro". In 2013, the Franco-Italo-Iranian drama "Le Passe" was released, created by the Iranian screenwriter Asghar Farhadi. The film shows family troubles with the divorce proceedings. Berenice, in the role of Marie, appears before the audience as the mother of a family in difficult circumstances, for which she was awarded the Best Actress prize at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
