In each country, a cinema characterized by its own distinctive features. In the French movie, for example, was one of these features is that the star actress begin their ascent to the heights of Olympus creative in a very, very young age - is enough to recall names such as Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot, Vanessa Paradis, and many others. Sophie Marceau is a charming creature with not quite French, autumn and melancholic beauty, is not an exception, because the first role she played 14 years of age.

Born Sophie Maupeou November 17, 1966 in a suburb of the French capital in the most that neither is a simple, almost proletarian family (father - the driver, his mother - a saleswoman) .  And until the very age of 14, Sophie, and think not thinking about artistic path .  As is often the case with future stars, Sophie hit the cinematic world by chance, came to support her friend on samples of the picture directed by Claude Pinoteau "boom" .  It was then and there born Sophie Marceau - a girl, not wanting to be funny and silly situations enrolled in trials under the name "Mars" took, without thinking twice, as an alias name of the street on which passed the audition, Avenue Marceau .  It was Sophie and choose from thousands of contenders for one of the main roles in the film, which tells a simple and touching story of romantic life of French teenagers .  Released in 1980 on the screens of "boom" began, as they say, a real hit, spodvignuv producers to continue shooting with the straightforward title "Boom-2" (1982) .  Marceau became the trump card of the project - for their work in the second picture she received the French film award "Cesar" in the category "Best Newcomer and the most promising actress" .

After that, it would seem, life and career have been developing incrementally, Mars signed with the country's largest film company «Gaumont! ". However, measured during the event intervened cordial feelings - Sophie for the first time really in love (it was the chosen Polish director Andrzej Zulawski), with to such an extent that neither the strength nor the time to work at it simply does not remain. «Gaumont! "I am ready to force to force the young star to carry out the agreement forcibly, smell almost prison. However, with the help of Sophie Zulawski I was able to find the money and pay for the aspiring actress huge compensation in the amount of one million francs.

Then Marceau for several years acted only Zulawski, who has worked exclusively in France with French actors well. For Sophie ever more firmly fixed mysterious role of romantic heroine, in a sense, not of this world. No obvious failures, the audience loved her, but there is no obvious breakthroughs, there is a resounding success, that would be taken out of her celebrity on a national scale, at an international level. Musical career ended, not having time to really start - recorded in 1985 an album of songs not used at all any demand, so Sophie wisely left the stage singing.

Trying to change something in their creative development sluggish in the early 1990s, Marceau try their hand at the stage. Here, progress has been quite tangible - for his role in the play "Eurydice" (1991), the actress was awarded the "Moliere" in the nomination "Best Debut". But while Sophie still later participated (and still participate) in the theater, the theater entirely devoted herself not.

Certain career complexity Marceau were associated not only with the fact that it was filmed mostly in Zulawski which is one of the leading European directors never treated. Played their role and the independence of Sophie as a person. Thus, in the early '90s she has publicly declared that the French directors by their attacks on the "soulless" Hollywood just cover their creative insolvency (the word "impotence", upotreblёnnoe actress, certainly not particularly liked directors in France). In 1996 Marceau polubiograficheskuyu-poluhudozhestvennuyu published a book of memoirs with the provocative title "Liar", which quite frankly spoke about his personal life, about their thoughts and experiences.

However, from the middle of the last decade in the works of Sophie Marceau occurred qualitative positive change related to the fact that it went beyond the native film. So, in 1994, she played a secondary, but very vivid and emotionally rich in the famous "Oscar-winning" Mel Gibson's film "Braveheart." A year later, she appeared at the classics of world cinema Italian maestro Antonioni "Beyond the Clouds". After the success of "Braveheart" Marceau continued to work in Hollywood, embodied on the screen the image of the charming villain of the next series of "James Bond", "The World Is Not Enough". From the project of the XXI century it is worth noting successful both in French and in worldwide box office mystical thriller "Belphegor, the specter of the Louvre."

The new century marked by change for Sophie and personal life. In 2002, she broke up with Andrzej Zulawski, with whom he lived 17 years and which in 1995 gave birth to a son named Vincent, and married an American producer Jim Lemley. In the summer of that year, Sophie Marceau was born the second child, a girl, the name of Juliette. There is no doubt that it will grow the same mysterious, but to conquer the hearts and imagination of beauty, like her mother.

  Alexander Babitsky

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