Academy Award for Best Actress

2007

Marion Cotillard 

as

Édith Piaf

La Vie en Rose

Marion Cotillard (French pronunciation: ​[ma.ʁjɔ̃ kɔ.ti.jaʁ]; born 30 September 1975) is a French actress, singer-songwriter, 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), Midnight in Paris (2011), Rust and Bone (2012), The Immigrant (2013) and Two Days, One Night (2014). In 2015, she stars as Lady Macbeth in Justin Kurzel's Macbeth, a new film adaptation of William Shakespeare's acclaimed play.

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 critical 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), Contagion (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and The Little Prince (2015). In 2014, Cotillard was named "The Most Bankable French Actress of the 21st Century", her films accumulating more than 37 million ticket sales in France from 2001 to 2014.