Audrey
Tautou (born August 9, 1978) is a French film actress, known to
worldwide audiences for playing the title character in the
award-winning French film Amélie (2001, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie
Poulain) and also Sophie Neveu in The Da Vinci Code (2006). in
2001 Tautou rose to international fame for her performance as the
eccentric Amélie in the romantic French comedy Le Fabuleux Destin
d'Amélie Poulain. In June 2004 she was invited to join the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She accepted the
invitation and is still a member as of September 1, 2006. In 2005,
Tautou worked in her first full Hollywood production, opposite Tom
Hanks, in the film version of Dan Brown's best-selling novel The
Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and released in May 2006.
She acted alongside Gad Elmaleh in Pierre Salvadori's Hors de
prix, released December 13, 2006. Tautou says she still considers
France her base, and plans to pursue a career predominantly there
rather than crossing over to the United States. Tautou starred
with Guillaume Canet (best known outside of France for his role in
the film adaptation of The Beach) in Claude Berri's
French-language Ensemble, c'est tout in 2008, an adaptation of the
eponymous novel by Anna Gavalda ... more
