Marie-Christine Barrault

MarieChristine Barrault born 21 March 1944 is a French actress She is best known for her performance in Cousin Cousine 1975 for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress In 2010 she released her autobiography titled This Long Way To Get To You MarieChristine Barrault was born in Paris France the daughter of Martha née Valmier and MaxHenri Barrault Her parents later divorced Barraults father who worked in the theatre died while she was a teenager With no support her mother was unable to care for her and her brother Alain Barrault was raised by her grandmother Felicite She was mentored in acting by her aunt and uncle French performers JeanLouis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud They initially did not support her dreams of becoming an actress She performed in plays in secondary school and then enrolled in an acting conservatory Barrault got her start on television in Loeuvre 1967 She made her feature film debut in Éric Rohmers My Night at Mauds 1969 In 1970 Barrault was featured along with Pierre Richard in the comedy film Le Distrait In 1975 Barrault starred in Cousin Cousine for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role She worked with Rohmer once again in 1978 in the role of Guinevere in Perceval le Gallois and she also has a cameo in his Chloe in the Afternoon Barrault is not fluent in English and therefore has generally turned down offers to appear in Englishlanguage films However in 1980 she accepted an offer from Woody Allen to appear in his film Stardust Memories In 1988 she was nominated for a Genie Award for her performance in No Blame In 1991 she portrayed Marie Curie in a television miniseries In her later career she has preferred acting on the stage in France In 2015 she came to Los Angeles on tour to perform in the play Les Yeux Ouverts in which she portrays French author Marguerite Yourcenar Barraults first husband was producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier whom she married in 1965 With him she had two children David and Ariane Barrault was married to director Roger Vadim from 1990 until his death from cancer in 2000 She herself is a breast cancer survivor Source Article MarieChristine Barrault from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30