Marion Cotillard ([ma.ʁjɔ̃ kɔ.ti.jaʁ]; born 30 September 1975) is a French actress and singer-songwriter. She is also an environmentalist and spokesperson for Greenpeace. She has garnered worldwide acclaim and awards for her performances in films such as A Very Long Engagement (2004), La Vie en Rose (2007), Nine (2009), Inception (2010), Rust and Bone (2012), The Immigrant (2013), and Two Days, One Night (2014).

In 2007, Cotillard starred as French singer Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, for which she received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, César Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She is the first and (as of 2015) only actor to win an Academy Award for a performance in the French language. In 2010, she received a Golden Globe and a Critics' Choice Award nomination for her performance in the musical film Nine. In 2012, she received wide acclaim for her performance as an amputee orca trainer in Rust and Bone and received nominations for the Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and the César Award. She received rave reviews in 2014 for her lead performances in The Immigrant and Two Days, One Night, scoring her second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the latter, which was also her second nomination for a French-language film and also the first time an actor was nominated for a Belgian film.

Cotillard's other notable films include Chloé (1996), Furia (1999), Lisa (2001), Pretty Things (2001), Big Fish (2003), Toi et Moi (2006), Dikkenek (2006), A Good Year (2006), Public Enemies (2009), Midnight in Paris (2011), Contagion (2011) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). In 2014, Cotillard was named "The Most Bankable French Actress of the 21st Century", her films accumulating more than 37 million in ticket sales in France from 2001 to 2014.

Biography

In the late 90s, Cotillard was in a relationship with French actor Julien Rassam. She was in a relationship with French actor Stéphan Guérin-Tillié from 2000 until 2005.
She dated French singer Sinclair from 2005 to 2007.

Since October 2007, Cotillard has been in a relationship with French actor and director Guillaume Canet. The birth of the couple's son, Marcel, was announced on 19 May 2011.

In 2014, she denied being married to Guillaume Canet.

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