Berenice Bejo was born in 1976 in the capital of Argentina. The father of the actress is the director Miguel Bejo. At the age of three, her parents took Berenice to France, where she lives and works to this day.
Berenice Bejo: actress biography
Berenice played one of the first successful roles in 1996, having reincarnated as Lawrence - the heroine of the French television film “Men's Stories”.
The first major role, and with it the recognition of film critics, went to the actress after four years: in 2000, Berenice Bejo passed a casting in the movie drama directed by Gerard Junho. In The Most Promising Actress, she played Laetitia Rance. For the embodiment of this image, the actress was nominated for the prestigious César Award in France (the famous compatriot Berenice - Gerard Depardieu was repeatedly awarded the same award).
In 2011, Berenice, having received the role in the silent comedy "Artist", immediately fell into several categories: Golden Globe, award from the Guild of American Film Actors and BAFTA. The film itself, directed by the husband of actress Michelle Hazanavicius, also received many awards and approving reviews from authoritative film critics.
Acting in the "Artist", Berenice Bejo shared the set with Jean Dujardin.
To date, Bezho's track record has more than sixty paintings. Over the past five years, she has received leading roles in the films Love at Your Fingertips, Ogram for Happiness, and Secrets of the Past.
The actress's birthday is July 7th. She, as already mentioned above, is happily married to French director Michel Hazanavicius and has two children: her son Lucien, who was born in 2008, and her daughter Gloria, who was born in 2011.
Berenice Bejo: 20th century films
In 1993, Berenice was involved in the movie "Lost Bread". In the same year, the first episodes of the television series Alice Never were first shown. The premiere of the latest episodes of this series took place in 2009.
The films “Hamlet Sisters” and “Men's Stories” were presented to the audience in 1996.
In 1999, another film with the participation of the actress was released at the box office: “Sapaju versus Sapazhu”.
Films with actress Bejo released at the box office in the 21st century
In 2001, the premiere of a comedy action movie called “The Knight's Story” took place.
The servant of a knight who died in battle took his name and armor. Now he is a noble Ulrich von Liechtenstein.
The film "Agent 117" was first shown in 2006. Starring
Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo (photo).
The action of this spy comedy takes place in Egypt. In 1955, Cairo was flooded with spies of all ranks: here are the French, and the British, and Russian, and local religious fans. Only a true professional can follow the order in this chaos.
In 2008, the film by the French director Michel Delgado "Farewell Bouquet" was released. Acting in this picture, Berenice was in the company of actors Didier Bourdon and Mark-Andre Gronden.
The protagonist of the Farewell Bouquet is forced to hide one important detail from the parents and beloved girl. While everyone thinks that Gabriel is a great musician, he is doing an internship at the Paris branch of an American funeral home. The deception would never have been revealed if Gabriel had once decided to earn some money and not sold the funeral gold to an old man who turned out to be the grandfather of his bride ...
The film "Artist" with John Goodman and Berenice Bejo was first shown in the lead roles in 2011.
The film takes place in 1927. Silent Hollywood movie star George Valentine bathes in the glory. But with the advent of the first sound film projects, viewers forget about the film handsome, which can not be said about the young statistician Peppy, for whom everything is just beginning ...
After the world premiere, the box office of "Artist" amounted to $ 133,432,856.
The French comedy “Love at Your Fingertips” was released in 2012. The main character of the film is a provincial girl. Having engaged with the most enviable groom of a small town, she is preparing to become an exemplary housewife ... until Fate in the person of handsome Louis does not interfere with her plans.
The cinema drama Leader’s Childhood is a story about how an ambitious and merciless dictator grew out of a little boy whose parents participated in the formation of the Treaty of Versailles.
The premiere of this film story (its budget amounted to $ 3,000,000) took place in 2015.
2016 year. The Vietnamese director Chan An Hung (who made his debut in 1993 with the movie “Green Papaya Aroma”) invited the respectable audience to appreciate his new work - the adaptation of Alice Ferney’s novel “Elegance of Widows”. The director made the adaptation himself.
The film "Eternity" - the first French-language work of Chan An Hung. The plot consists of three stories, the first of which began in the late nineteenth century. Three generations of women fall in love over a hundred years, start a new relationship, live, grow old and decrepit. Only a real feeling does not age.
"Young Godard"
A melodrama with that name was presented in May of this year by French director Michel Hazanavicius. One of the main roles was played by Berenice Bejo.
The protagonist of the film (whose budget amounted to 11 million euros) is the Parisian director Jean Luc Godard. In the late sixties of the last century, Godard made a completely new movie, unusual for his contemporaries, was considered the leader of the “new wave” of creative people and was in love with the actress much younger than himself.
Despite the twenty-year age difference, the girl reciprocates him, they get married ... The story of the rebellious Godard could have ended on this if it had not been for the scandal that erupted around his new film "Chinese Woman" ...