Early life

Béart was born Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson in St. Tropez (some sources say Gassin), on the French Riviera, the daughter of Geneviève Galéa, a former model, and Guy Béart, a singer and poet. Her father's family was Jewish.

In her late teens she spent her summer vacation with the English-speaking family of a close friend of her father in Montreal. At the end of the summer the family invited her to stay with them and complete her baccalauréat at Collège international Marie de France.

Career

Béart obtained an acting role in the 1976 film Tomorrow's Children. In her teens she appeared in bit parts in television. Upon graduating from the Collège International Marie de France in Montreal, she returned to France to attend drama school in Paris. A short time later she was cast in her first adult role in a film, and in 1986 she achieved fame with her role opposite Yves Montand, in the film Manon des Sources. For her performance, she won the 1987 César Award for "Best Supporting Actress". She also won the Silver St. George for Best Actress award at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival for her starring role in the 1995 film, A French Woman.

In addition to her award for Best Supporting Actress, she has also been nominated for 7 César Awards for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress in the following performances:

Nomination for César Award for Most Promising Actress

• 1985 - A Strange Passion
• 1986 - Love on the Quiet

Nomination for César Award for Best Actress

• 1990 - Les Enfants du désordre (Children of Chaos)
• 1990 - La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker)
• 1993 - Un cœur en hiver (A Heart in Winter)
• 1996 - Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (Nelly and Mr Arnaud)
• 2001 - Les Destinées Sentimentales (Sentimental Destinies)

In the 5 May 2003 issue of the French edition of Elle magazine, Béart, aged 39, appeared nude with a younger man: "The entire print-run of 550,000 copies sold out in just three days, making it the biggest-selling issue in the fashion glossy's long history."

In 2005, she participated in Rendez-vous en terre inconnue.

Personal life

In the mid-1980s, she began a relationship with Daniel Auteuil (her co-star in Love on the Quiet, Manon des Sources, A Heart in Winter and A French Woman); they married in 1993 but divorced in 1995. Béart was also romantically linked to music producer David Moreau (since c. 1995 after she separated from Auteuil) and to film producer Vincent Meyer for two years until his suicide in May 2003. She has two children: Nelly Auteuil (born c. 1993), and Johan Moreau (born c. 1996). She married actor Michaël Cohen on 13 August 2008 at Genappe in Belgium, and separated in 2011.

In addition to her screen work, Béart is also known for her social activism. She is an ambassador for UNICEF, and has made news for her opposition to France's anti-immigration legislation. In 1996, she made headlines when, defending the rights of the "sans-papiers" ("without papers", meaning illegal immigrants), she was removed after her group’s occupation of a Paris church.

In March 2012, Béart spoke out against plastic surgery in Le Monde saying that she regretted having an operation on her lips in 1990 when she was 27.

Selected filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director
1983	First Desires	Hélène	David Hamilton
1986	Manon des Sources	Manon	Claude Berri
1987	Date with an Angel	Angel	Tom McLoughlin
1988	Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator	Eva	Édouard Molinaro
1990	Captain Fracassa's Journey	Isabella	Ettore Scola
1991	La Belle Noiseuse	Marianne	Jacques Rivette
	I Don't Kiss	Ingrid	André Téchiné
1992	A Heart in Winter	Camille	Claude Sautet
1994	Hell	Nelly	Claude Chabrol
1995	A French Woman	Jeanne	Régis Wargnier
1995	Nelly and Mr. Arnaud	Nelly	Claude Sautet
1996	Mission: Impossible	Claire Phelps	Brian de Palma
1998	Don Juan	Elvire	Jacques Weber
1999	Time Regained	Gilberte	Raoul Ruiz
1999	Season's Beatings	Sonia	Danièle Thompson
2000	Sentimental Destinies	Pauline Pommerel	Olivier Assayas
2001	Replay	Nathalie	Catherine Corsini
2002	8 Women	Louise	François Ozon
	Searching for Debra Winger	as herself	Rosanna Arquette
2003	Strayed	Odile	André Téchiné
	The Story of Marie and Julien	Marie Delambre	Jacques Rivette
	Nathalie...	Nathalie / Marlène	Anne Fontaine
2005	Hell	Sophie	Danis Tanovic
2006	A Crime	Alice Parker	Manuel Pradal
2007	The Witnesses	Sarah	André Téchiné
2008	Disco	France Navarre	Fabien Onteniente
	Vinyan	Jeanne Bellmer	Fabrice Du Welz
2010	Nous Trois	Marie
	Ça commence par la fin	Gabrielle
2011	Ma compagne de nuit	Julia
2012	Bye Bye Blondie	Frances
	Télé gaucho	Patricia Gabriel
2013	Par exemple, Électre	Chrysothémis
2014	My Mistress	Maggie/ The Mistress
2014	Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles	Iris Dupin
2015	Beyond the Known World	Louise

Television

• Le grand Poucet (1980)
• Zacharius (1984)
• Raison perdue (1984)
• La femme de sa vie (1986)
• Et demain viendra le jour (1986)
• Les jupons de la révolution (1 episode, 1989)
• D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires (2005)

Decorations

• Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (2015)
• Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (2012)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]