Personal life

Bejo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is the daughter of Argentine filmmaker Miguel Bejo and his wife Silvia, a lawyer. When she was three, her family moved to France, escaping from the Argentine Dirty War.

In 2006, she starred in OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, where she met director Michel Hazanavicius, whom she later married. They have two children: Lucien and Gloria.

Career

In 2001, Bejo made her American film debut, playing the role of Christiana in A Knight's Tale opposite Heath Ledger. Christiana is a lady-in-waiting to Jocelyn (Shannyn Sossamon).

In 2002, she toured in France with Marie-France Pisier and Guillaume Depardieu.

In 2003, Bejo starred as Olivia in 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman by Laurent Bouhnik.

Under the direction of Steve Suissa, she seduces Stephane Freiss and Titoff in The Grand Role (2004), and a comedy about the world of actors, and Cavalcade (2005), a drama dealing with the theme of disability.

In 2006, she made a comeback by acting alongside Jean Dujardin in OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies by Michel Hazanavicius. This is the first collaboration of the trio.

In 2007, she made an appearance in the short film La Pomme d'Adam.

In 2008, she appeared in two romantic comedies: Modern Love Bouquet and Stéphane Kazandjian. The same year she gave birth to her first child by Hazanavicius.

In 2009, she participated in the documentary by Serge Bromberg (fr), Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno. The documentary reconstructs Clouzot's film, alternating between scenes from the 1964 film and dialogue readings between Jacques Gamblin (for Serge Reggiani) and Béjo (for Romy Schneider).

In the 2011 film, The Artist, which is directed by Hazanavicius and stars Dujardin, Bejo plays Peppy Miller, a 1920s film actress. Her performance received critical acclaim, the César Award for Best Actress, and several award nominations: the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture award, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 2012, she was announced as the host of the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. She dubbed the role of Mérida in the French dub of the Disney/Pixar film Brave. In June 2012, Bejo was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The same month, she received the Prix Romy Schneider.

At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival she won the award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Past.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1993	Pain perdu		Tiéri Barié	Short
1996	Les soeurs Hamlet	Karine	Abdelkrim Bahloul
	Histoires d'hommes	Laurence	Olivier Langlois	TV Movie
	L'@mour est à réinventer	The girl	Françoise Decaux-Thomelet	TV Series (1 Episode)
1997	Julie Lescaut	Lila	Alain Wermus	TV Series (1 Episode)
	Le juge est une femme	Raphaëlle Fauvet-Colombin	Daniel Vigne	TV Series (1 Episode)
	Un et un font six	Sophie	Franck Apprederis	TV Series (6 Episodes)
1999	Sapajou contre Sapajou	Emma Verdier	Élisabeth Rappeneau	TV Movie
2000	Most Promising Young Actress	Laetitia Rance	Gérard Jugnot	Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actress
	La Captive	Sarah	Chantal Akerman
	Passionnément	Faustine	Bruno Nuytten
	Les redoutables		Eric Valette	TV Series (1 Episode)
	Sauvetage	Valentine	Jacques Malaterre	TV Series (6 Episodes)
2001	A Knight's Tale	Christiana	Brian Helgeland
2002	24 Hours in the Life of a Woman	Olivia	Laurent Bouhnik
	Comme un avion	Lola	Marie-France Pisier
	Une petite fée	The young woman	Jérôme Genevray	Short
	Vertiges	Margo	Jérôme Cornuau	TV Series (1 Episode)
2003	Dans le rouge du couchant	The girl on the boat	Edgardo Cozarinsky
	Dissonances	Margo	Jérôme Cornuau (2)
	Sem Ela	Fanfan Vieira	Anna da Palma
	Jeux de plage	Marthe	David D'Aquaro	Short
2004	Le grand rôle	Perla Kurtz	Steve Suissa
	Ciao bambino	Liccia	Pascal Chauveau	Short
	Sans douleur		Eric Paccoud	Short
2005	Cavalcade	Manon	Steve Suissa (2)
2006	OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies	Larmina El Akmar Betouche	Michel Hazanavicius
	Nuages	Cécile Marsac	Alain Robillard	TV Movie
2007	La maison	Cloé	Manuel Poirier
	13 m²	Sophie	Barthélémy Grossmann
	Un homme peut en cacher un autre	Inès / Adèle	Thomas Rio	Short
2008	Modern Love	Elsa	Stéphane Kazandjian
	Bouquet final	Claire	Michel Delgado
	Le courrier du parc	The young woman	Agnès Caffin	Short
	Sa raison d'être	Fabienne	Renaud Bertrand	TV Movie
2009	La pomme d'Adam	Girl on the metro	Jérôme Genevray	Short
2010	La Traque	Claire	Antoine Blossier
	Love Me Baby	Marie	Lionel Gédébé	Short
2011	The Artist	Peppy Miller	Michel Hazanavicius (2)	César Award for Best Actress Capri Actress Award Hollywood Film Festival Spotlight Award Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Santa Barbara International Film Festival - Cinema Vanguard Award St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Women Film Critics Cicle Award for Best Screen Couple Lumières Award for Best Actress Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated - Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - ALMA Award for Favorite Movie Actress - Comedy/Musical Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Nominated - Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Georgia Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
2012	Populaire	Marie Taylor	Régis Roinsard
	Aujourd'hui	Louise	Nicolas Saada	Short
	Brave	Mérida's voice	Mark Andrews Brenda Chapman	French Voice
2013	The Past	Marie Brisson	Asghar Farhadi	Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress FIPRESCI Prize for Best Actress of the Year in a Foreign-Language Film Nominated — César Award for Best Actress (2) Nominated — CinEuphoria Award for Best Actress Nominated — CinEuphoria Award for Best Ensemble
	Au bonheur des ogres	Aunt Julia	Nicolas Bary
2014	The Search	Carole	Michel Hazanavicius (3)
	Le Dernier Diamant	Julia	Eric Barbier
	Frères d'armes	Voice	Rachid Bouchareb	TV Mini-Series
2016	The Childhood of a Leader	The Mother	Brady Corbet
	Eternity		Tran Anh Hung	Post-Production
	After Love	Marie	Joachim Lafosse
	Sweet Dreams		Marco Bellocchio	Post-Production

Theatre

Year	Title	Author	Director	Theater
1999	The Threepenny Opera	Bertolt Brecht	Steve Kalfa	Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

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