Marie Gillain
Acting
Biography
Revealed very young in the film "Mon père ce héros", the role earned her a nomination for the best upcoming actress césar. In 1995, her role in "L'Appât" is praised by public and critics, earning her the Golden Bear at Berlin the same year, along another nomination at the Césars for the best upcoming actress and the Romy-Schneider award in 1996. Also active in theater.
Born: June 18, 1975
Place of Birth: Liège, Belgium
Known For
Re-belles
The Little Prince
The animated adventures of a young interplanetary traveler. Based on the classic children's novel.
Vicky and Her Mystery
Stéphane decides to move to the beautiful mountains of Cantal in order to reconnect with his 8-year-old daughter, Victoria, who has been silent since her mother's disappearance. During a walk in the forest, a shepherd gives Victoria a puppy named "Mystery" who will gradually give her a taste for life. But very quickly, Stéphane discovers that the animal is in reality a wolf… Despite the warnings and the danger of this situation, he cannot bring himself to separate his daughter from this seemingly harmless ball of hair.
Mirage of Love
1925, In a mining town in the middle of nowhere in Chile. The daughter of an anarchist hairdresser falls deeply in love with a trumpeter. They will have to fight dictatorship in order to save their love.
Coco Before Chanel
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.
The Dinner
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life.
Goliath
Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from exposure to a pesticide. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for an international chemical corporation. The paths of these characters collide as the lives of thousands are affected by a tragic act that sparks a powerful movement while the corporation fights to prevent the truth from being revealed.
Une place pour Pierrot
Pierrot, 50, is autistic and lives in a care home. His sister Camille, 45, discovers that he is being overmedicated, causing him to regress. Outraged, she decides to take him into her home while she searches for a place that is better suited to his needs. A long quest begins.
On Guard
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
Female Agents
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Filmography
as Camille
as La belle-fille
as Marie-Christine
as Dinah
as Gabrielle Favre
as Self
as Elisa
as Camille
as Alexandra
as Anna Spitzer
as Audrey
as Anna
as Christine Beauval
as Marie Kempf
as Hirondelle
as Claudia Livorno
as Liéna
as Claire
as la Rose (voice)
as Adrienne Chanel
as Mélanie
as Betty
as Suzy Desprez
as Florence Baron
as Audrey
as Nina
as Marie
as Self - Guest
as Laura
as Anne
as Louise
as Olga
as Safrane Vaudoye
as Margot
as Lucie
as Safiye
as Self
as Cecilia la studentessa
as Aurore de Nevers
as Julie d'Espard
as Ottilia
as Nathalie
as Camille
as Marie
as Véronique "Véro" Arnel
as Self
as Anna
as Isabelle Brunet