Emma de Caunes (born 9 September 1976) is a French actress.
Life and career
De Caunes was born in Paris on 9 September 1976 as the daughter of actor and director
Antoine de Caunes
Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline ...
and director and graphic designer Gaëlle Royer. Her paternal grandparents are
journalist
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Georges de Caunes and
Jacqueline Joubert, one of the first
continuity announcer
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s on French television.
Marriage and family
De Caunes married the singer known as
Sinclair
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in 2001. They have a daughter Nina together, born in October 2002. They divorced in 2005.
In September 2011, De Caunes married
Jamie Hewlett, an English comic book artist.
Education and career
De Caunes began acting in 1988 at the age of 12 with a role in ''Margot et le voleur d'enfants,'' a
short film
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by director Michèle Reiser, her godmother. She obtained her French ''
baccalauréat
The ''baccalauréat'' (; ), often known in France colloquially as the ''bac'', is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the ''lycée'') by meeting certain ...
'' in film in 1995 after high school.
De Caunes appeared in various commercials before her first major film role in 1997 in
Sylvie Verheyde
Sylvie Verheyde (born 1967) is a French film director, actress, and screenwriter.
Director
The films Verheyde has directed include ''Un frère'' (1997), in which Emma de Caunes won a César Award for Most Promising Actress, ''Princesses'' (200 ...
's ''
Un frère''. She won the
Most Promising Actress award for this performance at the 1998
César awards. In 2001 she starred with
Radiohead
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’s
Thom Yorke
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in the music video for the song “
Knives Out
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,” directed by
Michel Gondry. She won the 2002
Prix Romy Schneider, an award given annually to a promising young actress.
She had a main role in the 2007 comedy film ''
Mr. Bean's Holiday
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'', in which she played an actress in an independent being made by
Willem Dafoe
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's character.
Allegations against Weinstein
In 2017, De Caunes publicly accused Hollywood producer
Harvey Weinstein
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of sexual misconduct at the 2010
Cannes Film Festival
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. She alleges that Weinstein lured her to his hotel room, and chased her around the room while he was naked in an attempt to have sex. Her allegations were first reported in ''
The New Yorker
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''.
Theatre
Filmography
Actress
Director / Writer
References
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Lanesterat
Eurochannel
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1976 births
Living people
Actresses from Paris
French film actresses
French television actresses
20th-century French actresses
21st-century French actresses
Most Promising Actress César Award winners