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Carole Bouquet

Carole Bouquet

French actress (born 1957)

Carole Bouquet (born 18 August 1957[1]) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 60 films since 1977. In 1990, she was awarded the César Award for Best Actress for her role in Too Beautiful for You.

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Life and career

Bouquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine.[1] She made her film acting debut in Luis Buñuel's surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).[2] Bouquet portrayed the Bond girl Melina Havelock, opposite Roger Moore in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. She received a César Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Rive droite, rive gauche (1984), and won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Beautiful For You (1989).[3]

In the 1980s, she was a model for French luxury fashion label Chanel, being the face of Chanel No. 5.[4][5][6] She was the face of Chanel No. 5 fragrance from 1986 to 1997.[7][8]

She was the companion of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam, with whom she had a son, Dimitri Rassam, also a producer.[9][10] In 1987, she gave birth to a son, Louis, with photographer Francis Giacobetti. She married immunologist Jacques Leibowitch in 1992; they divorced in 1996.[11]

In 1999, she was a jury member of the 4th Shanghai International Film Festival.[12]

She was a member of the main competition jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.[13]

On 21 May 2014, Bouquet formalized her relationship with Philippe Sereys de Rothschild on the red carpet of the 37th Festival de Cannes, of which she was one of the jury members.[14]

She has been running a winery, Maison Carole Bouquet, on the island of Pantelleria in the Strait of Sicily since 2005.[4]

Filmography

Bouquet photographed in 1995 by the studio Harcourt
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Theatre

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Carole Bouquet". Opéra national de Paris. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  2. [2]
    "Carole Bouquet Keeps Blooming". Interview Magazine. 20 March 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
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    "Award Winners & Nominees". Académie des César. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
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    Raguraman, Anjali (23 April 2017). "Former Bond girl Carole Bouquet now runs a winery on Pantelleria". The Straits Times. Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Co.
  5. [5]
    Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West, London/New York: Routledge, 2005; ISBN 978-0-415-35182-9, p. 65: "the French face of Chanel in the late 1990s".
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    Tilar J. Mazzeo, The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's most Famous Perfume, New York: Harper, 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-179101-7, p. 199: "Carole Bouquet, the 'face' of Chanel No. 5 during the 1980s".
  7. [7]
    "CHANEL N°5 advertising film from 1986, "Monuments", by Ridley Scott, with Carole Bouquet". Inside CHANEL. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  8. [8]
    "1997 – Carole Bouquet, photographed by Dominique Issermann for CHANEL N°5 advertising campaign in 1997". Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  9. [9]
    Costanzo Costantini, Le regine del cinema, Rome: Gremese, 1997, ISBN 978-88-7742-138-8, p. 39 (in Italian): "Carole Bouquet vive ora con Jean-Pierre Rassam, il produttore siriano o libanese che le ha dato sei mesi fa un figlio, Dimitry [Carole Bouquet now lives with Jean-Pierre Rassam, the Lebanese or Syrian producer, who gave her a son, Dimitri, six months ago]."
  10. [10]
    Catherina Catsaros, Le grand livre des QCM de culture générale volume 2, Paris: l'Etudiant, 2008; ISBN 978-2-84624-604-0, p. 15 (in French): "Carole Bouquet dont le mari Jean-Pierre Rassam (décédé depuis) [Carole Bouquet, whose husband Jean-Pierre Rassam (since deceased)]".
  11. [11]
    "Bond girl Carole Bouquet on drugs, demons and her doomed affair". The Independent. 23 March 2008.
  12. [12]
    "Archive – Golden Goblet Award". Shanghai International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  13. [13]
    "Cannes 2014 : Carole Bouquet membre du jury du Festival !". Purepeople.com. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  14. [14]
    "Carole Bouquet en couple : Ce qu'elle admire chez Philippe Sereys de Rothschild". Purepeople (in French). 23 August 2018.
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