Biography
Innate to a movie-director father & an actress mother, at age Fifteen she was sent to Paris to learn at the specialised arts high, when which she attended the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris.

At age Eighteen she found the little role in the little independent film Liberty Belle. When trying to build her career all over the next 5 years, she worked as a clerk at a Paris emporium & as a painter's model.

She was Two dozen after she received her 1st large break using the role inside Philip Kaufman's film The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Her performance brought tremendously praise & a offer of leading roles including around Three Colors: Blue, part one of Krzysztof Kieślowski's acclaimed Three Colors trilogy, for which she won a 1993 Cesar Award for best actress. Additionally, she has been nominated for the Cesar Award for Better Actress the farther 5 days in the period of her career.

Within 1996 her role as Hanthe, a Canadian nurse tending to the maimed unknown when you took World War II, in the blockbuster film The English Patient, brought her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in an upset all over required winner Lauren Bacall whose seniority the Academy chose to overlook. Onstage, Binoche known as to Bacall that Bacall was a 1 world health organization really deserved a Award.

Inside 2000, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the film Chocolat, based on a novel by Joanne Harris (the award was won by Julia Roberts for her role in Erin Brockovich).

Additionally to her many motiin picture roles, Binoche has starred on Broadway. She is the greatest paid film actress in the history of France.

Binoche has ii youngsters, Raphael (sustaining Andre Halle) & Hanna (by having French actor Benoit Magimel).

Awards
Won
1997 - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - The English Patient 1997 - Berlin International Film Festival - Best Actress - A English Patient 1997 - British Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress - A English Patient 1997 - European Film Award - Best Actress - A English Patient 1996 - National Board of Review - Best Supporting Actress - A English Patient 1994 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - 3 Colors: Blue 1993 - Venice Film Festival - Best Actress - 3 Colors: Blue 1993 - Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale Camera 1992 - European Film Award - Best Actress - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf

Nominations
2001 - Academy Award for Best Actress - Chocolat 2001 - British Academy Award - Best Actress - Chocolat 2001 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Widow Of Saint-Pierre 2001 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - Chocolat 2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Actress - Chocolat 2001 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Cast - Chocolat 1997 - Screen Actors Guild Award - Best Supporting Actress - A English Patient 1997 - Golden Globe Award - Best Supporting Actress - A English Patient 1996 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - lupus erythematosus Hussard tyre le toit - (The Horseman on the Roof) 1994 - Golden Globe Award - Best Actress - 3 Colors: Blue 1993 - Cesar Award - Best Actress - Damage

Filmography
Bee Season - (2005) Caché - (2005) Country of My Skull - (2004) Jet Lag - (2002) Chocolat - (2000) Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales - (2000) Widow of Saint-Pierre - (2000) Alice and Martin - (2000) ''Eloge de l'amour - (1999) Children of the Century - (1999) The English Patient - (1996) A Couch in New York - (1996) The Horseman on the Roof - (1995) Three Colors: Blue - (1993) Damage (Fatale) - (1993) Wuthering Heights - (1992) Women & Men 2 - (1991) The Lovers on the Bridge - (1991) Un tour de manege - (1989) The Unbearable Lightness of Being - (1988) Bad Blood - (1986) Mon beau-frere a tue ma soeur - (1985) Le Meilleur de la vie - (1985) Rendez-vous - (1985) Adieu blaireau - (1985) Family Life - (1985) Hail Mary - (1985) The Chicks - (1984) Dorothee, danseuse de corde - (1983) Fort bloque - (1983) Liberty Belle'' - (1982)