During their teens, the Binoche sisters spent their school holidays with their maternal grandmother, not seeing their parents for months at a time.

When Binoche's parents divorced in 1968, four-year-old Juliette and her sister Marion were sent to a provincial boarding school. Both of them were actors who were born in Częstochowa the German Nazi occupiers imprisoned them at Auschwitz as intellectuals. Binoche's maternal grandfather, Andre Stalens, was born in Poland, of Belgian ( Walloon) and French descent, and Binoche's maternal grandmother, Julia Helena Młynarczyk, was of Polish origin. Her mother was born in Częstochowa, Poland. Her father, who is French, also has one eighth Portuguese-Brazilian ancestry he was raised partly in Morocco by his French-born parents. In 2008, she began a world tour with a modern dance production in-i devised in collaboration with Akram Khan.īinoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique Yvette Stalens (born 1939), a teacher, director, and actress. Throughout her career, Binoche has intermittently appeared on stage, most notably in a 1998 London production of Luigi Pirandello's Naked and in a 2000 production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on Broadway for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.

In 2010, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy, making her the first actress to win the European 'Best Actress Triple Crown' (for winning awards at the Berlin, Cannes, and Venice film festivals). She has appeared in more than sixty feature films and has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, Volpi Cup and a César Award.īinoche began taking acting lessons during adolescence and, after performing in several stage productions, was cast in different films.ĭuring the 2000s, she maintained an international career, alternating between French and English language roles in both mainstream and art-house productions. Juliette Binoche ( French pronunciation: born 9 March 1964) is a French actress and dancer.

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