Juliette Binoche

In 1996, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in El paciente inglés (1996). Legendary actress Lauren Bacall was roundly expected to win in that category for her performance in El amor tiene dos caras (1996), but Binoche won the Oscar instead, in one of the biggest surprise wins in Oscar history. In her acceptance speech, she said, "I don't have a speech prepared. I thought Lauren would get it." Bacall was given an honorary Oscar in 2010.
She was the highest paid French actress in history in the 90s and early 2000s. (2002).
Has a daughter, Hana, with French actor Benoît Magimel, born December 16th, 1999.
Joanne Harris, the author of Chocolat (2000), was stunned one weekend when she opened the front door of her small house in Barnsley, Yorkshire. On her doorstep was French actress Juliette Binoche, who had landed the lead role for the Film version of Joanne's book. Juliette loved the book and wanted to meet Joanne and she spent the weekend at the house as they discussed the book and the film to come. Juliette met Joanne's young daughter and she borrowed her bedroom to stay over for the weekend. Juliette returned the favour by inviting her to the States as a guest of Miramax films for the Oscars.
Chosen by "People" magazine as one of "the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World" (1997).

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life...I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
When I returned to France after winning the Oscar, I was treated like royalty, or like a football hero!
Giving birth is like a vase of beautiful flowers. Only you're just the vase, and only for a very short moment. The flowers are beautiful, but they belong to themselves, not to the vase.
"I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women".
"I knew I had become a star when I shook hands with Simone Signoret at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. She died four months later".