Audrey Tautou was born August 9, 1976 and is a French film actress, known best known to worldwide audiences as the title character in the award-winning French film Amélie (2001, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) and as Sophie Neveu in The Da Vinci Code (2006).


Audrey Tautou was born in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France. In 1999, she participated in a Star Search-like competition sponsored by Canal Plus called "Jeunes Premier" (The Young First) and won Best Young Actress at the 9th Béziers Festival of Young Actors. Then, Audrey Tautou came to the attention of Tonie Marshall who gave her a role in the César-winning Venus Beauty Institute (1999, aka Vénus beauté (institut)). In 2000, Audrey Tautou won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as her country's most promising young film actress.


In 2001 Audrey Tautou rose to international fame by playing the eccentric Amélie from the romantic French comedy of the same name. However, in her native France she was already well-known for her work in the earlier Venus Beauty Institute.


In 2005 Audrey Tautou worked in her first full Hollywood production, opposite Tom Hanks, in the film version of Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and released in 2006.


Audrey Tautou takes pictures of each reporter who interviews her. She keeps these pictures in a scrapbook for later review.

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Audrey Tautou Films


Hors de prix - (2006) Irène (2006)


The Da Vinci Code - Sophie Neveu (2006)


Les Poupées russes - Martine (2005)
(English title: The Russian Dolls)


Un long dimanche de fiançailles - Mathilde (2004)

(English title: A Very Long Engagement)
(aka Eterno Amor (Endless Love) - Brazil)


Nowhere to Go But Up - Val Chipzik (2003)

(aka Happy End (Movie))


Pas sur la bouche - Huguette Verberie (2003)
(English title: Not On the Lips)


Les Marins perdus - Lalla (2003)

(English title: Lost Seamen)


Dirty Pretty Things - Senay (2002)


L'Auberge espagnole - Martine (2002)
(aka Pot Luck - UK)

(aka Una Casa de locos - Spain)
(aka Euro Pudding - International: English title)

(aka The Spanish Apartment - USA)
(aka L'appartamento spagnolo - Italy)

(aka Albergue espanhol - Brazil)


À la folie... pas du tout - Angélique (2002)
(English title: He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not)

(aka Bem me Quer, Mal me Quer - Brazil)


Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite - Michèle (2001)
(English title: God Is Great, I'm Not)


Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain - Amélie Poulain (2001)

(aka Amélie - International: English title - USA)
(aka Amelie from Montmartre - International: English title)

(aka Die Fabelhafte Welt der Amelie - Germany)
(aka The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain - USA: literal English title)

(aka Il favoloso mondo di Amelie - Italian title)
(aka O Fabuloso Destino de Amélie Poulain - Brazil (Portuguese)


Le Battement d'ailes du papillon - Irène (2000)

(aka Happenstance - UK and USA)
(aka Amelie 2 - Hong Kong: English title)

(aka The Beating of the Butterfly's Wings - International: English title)


Le Libertin - Julie d'Holbach (2000) (English title: The Libertine)


Voyous voyelles - Anne-Sophie (2000)
(aka Bad Girls - Australia: TV title)

(aka The Little Grifters - USA: cable TV title)
(aka Pretty Devils - USA: new title)


Épouse-moi - Marie-Ange (2000) (English title: Marry Me)


Triste à mourir - Caro (1999)


Vénus beauté (institut) - Marie (1999)

(aka Venus Beauty Institute - USA: literal English title)
(aka Venus Beauty Salon - UK)


Le Boiteux: Baby blues - Blandine Piancet (1999) (TV)


La Vieille barrière - La jeune fille du quartier (1998)


Casting: Archi-dégueulasse - Comédienne 1 (1998)


Chaos technique - Lisa (1998) (TV)


Bébés boum - Elsa (1998) (TV)


La Vérité est un vilain défaut - La standardiste (1997) (TV)


Coeur de cible (1996) (TV)


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