Sophie Marceau
Date of birth: 1966-11-17
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 苏菲·玛索, ソフィー・マルソー, سوفی مارسو
Biography
Sophie Marceau (born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 17 November 1966) is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L'Étudiante (1988), Pacific Palisades (1990), Fanfan (1993) and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994). She became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart (1995), Firelight (1997), Anna Karenina (1997) and as Elektra King in the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Some of her later films tackle critical social issues such as Arrêtez-moi (2013), Jailbirds (2015) and Everything Went Fine (2021). Marceau has appeared on more than 300 magazine covers worldwide and been the face of numerous luxury brands. She was made Officer (Officier) in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of Culture of France in 2003, and in 2015 it was revealed that she had refused the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur). She was born 17 November 1966 in Paris, the second child of Simone (née Morisset), who was a shop assistant, and Benoît Maupu, a truck driver. Her parents divorced when she was nine years old. In February 1980, Marceau and her mother came across a model agency looking for teenagers. Marceau had photos taken at the agency, but did not think anything would come of it. At the same time, Françoise Menidrey, the casting director for Claude Pinoteau's La Boum (1980), asked modeling agencies to recommend a new teenager for the project. After viewing the rushes, Alain Poiré, the director of the Gaumont, signed Marceau to a long-term contract. La Boum was a hit film, with 4,378,500 tickets sold in France. In 1981, Marceau made her singing debut with French singer François Valéry on record "Dream in Blue", written by Pierre Delanoë. She rejected the main role in a soon-to-be controversial film, Beau-père, in which she would have played as a teenage girl who seduces her step-father for a sexual relationship. The role was eventually played by Ariel Besse. In 1982, at age 16, Marceau bought back her contract with Gaumont for one million French francs. She borrowed most of the money. After starring in the sequel film La Boum 2 (1982), Marceau focused on more dramatic roles, including the historical drama Fort Saganne in 1984 with Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, Joyeuses Pâques (Happy Easter) in 1984, L'amour braque and Police in 1985, and Descente aux enfers (Descent into Hell) in 1986. In 1988, she starred in L'Étudiante (The Student) and the historical adventure film Chouans!. That year, Marceau was named Best Romantic Actress at the International Festival of Romantic Movies for her role in Chouans! ... Source: Article "Sophie Marceau" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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The Party
1980-12-17
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the sa
The Party 2
1982-12-08
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of h
Braveheart
1995-05-24
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999-05-20
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is
Trivial
2007-05-23
An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is
The Neverending Party
2023-01-20
A look-back at popular French movie "La Boum" (The Party).
The Curse of Turandot
2021-10-15
The plot follows Princess Turandot who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian
D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994-08-24
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's
Fort Saganne
1984-05-11
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita
Marquise
1997-08-20
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophi
LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
2009-02-04
Lola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult wo
Anthony Zimmer
2005-04-01
François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up o
Police
1985-09-04
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brot
Sous le soleil de Pialat
2021-10-18
In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend
Female Agents
2008-02-08
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci
Beyond the Clouds
1995-10-27
Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives
Happy Easter
1984-10-24
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go aw
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
2001-04-03
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum
The World Is Not Enough
1999-11-17
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's o
Pacific Palisades
1990-03-28
A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. When she arri
Fanfan
1993-06-16
After seeing the initial passion and romance fade into a series of routine and boring relationships,
Changing Sides
2009-01-07
Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten
Firelight
1998-05-27
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he wi
Alex & Emma
2003-06-20
Writer Alex Sheldon must finish his novel within a month. If he doesn't, he won't get paid. And, if
Lost & Found
1999-04-23
In order to impress his beautiful French neighbor, Dylan Ramsey dognaps her pet pooch so he can retu
Don't Look Back
2009-06-03
Panic attacks and memory loss signal the plight of a writer whose body is inexplicably being taken o
Chouans !
1988-03-23
Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, t
Fidelity
2000-04-05
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and beco
With Love... from the Age of Reason
2010-07-28
The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receivi
Cartagena
2009-11-18
Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-a
Anna Karenina
1997-04-04
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w
A Woman
2022-10-05
Juliane, a police commissioner in Paris, is a woman with great moral integrity. But when she discove
The Student
1988-10-05
An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz mu
Le Clan
2023-01-18
Fred, Achille, Max and Belette form a good-for-nothing gang of crooks. Dismally failing their last
Descent Into Hell
1986-11-06
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Hait
I'm Staying
2003-10-01
A self-centered engineer tries to win back his wife after she takes a new lover.
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
1989-04-19
Lucas has invented a new computer language but at the same time he has been informed about his stran
The Car Keys
2003-12-10
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street co
Nelly
2004-05-15
The four days following the death of a small town doctor, seen through the eyes of Nelly, his wife,
The Blue Note
1991-06-05
A look at the last few days of in the life of composer Frédéric Chopin's professional life.
For Sasha
1991-04-10
Israel, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two years. Th
Mad Love
1985-02-27
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken fr
Happiness Never Comes Alone
2012-06-27
Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011-05-18
Documentary on the career of Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Arrest Me
2013-02-06
One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband seve
Coco Chanel Unbuttoned
2023-09-15
The story of original influencer Coco Chanel, whose designs still represent the zenith of female sex
Quantum Love
2014-04-23
Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023-06-02
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television
The Hugo's Brain
2012-11-27
The Hugo's Brain is a French documentary-drama about autism. The documentary crosses authentic autis
Sex, Love & Therapy
2014-10-01
Lambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He stay
'Round Midnight
1986-09-23
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w
A Spiritual Matter
2015-12-03
"A Spiritual Matter" is the first-ever adaptation of an Ingmar Bergman script since his passing. In
Jailbirds
2016-09-14
In order to save the man she loves from jail, Mathilde takes his place by helping his break-out. Whi
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995-09-02
A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema a
Les Enfants de La Boum
2001-11-18
Save the Last Bullet
Based on events from the Balkan Wars. 1991: Amidst the cruel battle of Vukovar, a brave squad of Cro
Mme Mills, une voisine si parfaite
2018-03-07
Hélène leads a sad life as editor of cheesy romance novels. But one day, when the old and delightful
On l'appelait Roda
2018-10-31
Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart': A Filmmaker's Passion
2000-08-29
A making-of documentary for the film Braveheart (1995).
Żuławski on Żuławski
2000-01-01
A portrait of film director Andrzej Żuławski. This biographical documentary shows the different lay
La France sauvage
2012-01-29
Everything Went Fine
2021-07-18
When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in h
I Love America
2022-03-11
A single woman who decides to take a chance on love again by catapulting her life from Paris to Los
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002-05-20
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same
LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour
2026-02-11
At 55, Anne is finally enjoying her freedom after her children leave home. But everything changes wh
Cerfa
2025-05-20
French Beauty
2005-06-01
A story about the riddle of femininity in French cinema.