Juliette Binoche

Born: 9th March 1964
Where: Paris, France

Juliette first developed an interest in the stage while attending school, and started her career working onstage before moving to the big screen with a small role in the 1983 feature Liberty Belle.

Although she didn't win the lead role in Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary, Juliette impressed the writer-director enough for him to create a role especially for her.

After this, she landed her first starring part in the erotic drama Rendezvous, and in 1988, Juliette first gained American audiences' attention in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

After this, she returned to France and committed three years to filming Carax's operatic and visually stunning The Lovers on the Bridge.

In 1996, she was again cast alongside Fiennes in Anthony Minghella's beautifully realised adaptation of The English Patient, in which she played a Canadian nurse tending to a wounded stranger during WWII.

Since winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for this role, she has divided her time between stage and screen, working predominantly in English in the former medium and in French for the latter.

Juliette's Broadway debut came in 2000, acting alongside Liev Schreiber and John Slattery in a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, for which she earned a Tony nomination.

In Chocolat, Juliette starred alongside Johnny Depp and Dame Judi Dench in her return to English-language films, for which she received a Best Actress Oscar nomination.