Emma de Caunes

Emma de Caunes
File:Emma de Caunes Cannes 2015.jpg Emma de Caunes at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Born	(1976-09-09) 9 September 1976 Paris, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1986-present
Spouse(s)	Sinclair (2001–05) Jamie Hewlett (2011–present)
Children	1

Emma de Caunes (born 9 September 1976) is a French actress. She played Sabine in Mr. Bean's Holiday.

Life and career

De Caunes was born in Paris, the daughter of the actor and director Antoine de Caunes and the director and graphic designer Gaëlle Royer. She was married to the singer Sinclair from 2001 to 2005. Their daughter, Nina, was born in October 2002. In September 2011, she married comic book artist Jamie Hewlett.

De Caunes's career began at the age of ten courtesy of a role in Margot et le voleur d'enfants by the director Michèle Reiser, her godmother. The character she played had a boy friend named "Arvin". She obtained her baccalaureate in film in 1995.

De Caunes appeared in various advertisements before her first major film role in 1997 in Sylvie Verheyde's Un frère. She won the Most Promising Actress award at the 1998 César awards and Best Actress at the 1997 Paris Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Actress in the Acteurs à l'Écran awards. She won the 2002 Prix Romy Schneider, an award given annually to a promising young actress.

She had a main role in the comedy film Mr. Bean's Holiday, in which she played the role of an actress in Willem Dafoe's character's independent film.

Filmography

• Margot et le voleur d'enfants (1988)
• Liberté chérie (1996)
• Vladimir de trop (1996) as Lola
• Velvet 99 (1996) as Milli Vanilli
• L'échappée belle (1996) as Juliette
• Au bord de l'autoroute (Along the Freeway; 1997) as Camille
• Un frère (Brother; 1997) as Sophie
• Beaucoup trop loin (1998)
• 3 petits points la lune (1998)
• La voie est libre (1998)
• Restons groupés (1999) as Claire
• Mondialito (1999) as Louisa
• Mille bornes (Milestones; 1999) as Nina
• Le Nombril de l'univers (1999)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999) voice as The Mole's mom (French dub)
• Faites comme si je n'étais pas là (Pretend I'm Not Here; 2000) as Marie
• Sans plomb (Unleaded; 2000) as Marie
• Princesses (2000) as Sophie
• Radiohead: "Knives Out" (2001; music video)
• Les Amants du Nil (Lovers of the Nile; 2002) as Anne Frendo
• Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre (Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra; 2002) as la secrétaire de César
• Beyond Good & Evil (2003; voice)
• Ma mère (2004) as Hansi
• Short Order (2005) as Fiona
• Kaamelott (2005; in 2 TV episodes)
• La Science des rêves (The Science of Sleep; 2006) as Zoé
• Flushed Away (2006) Rita (voice; French dub)
• Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; 2007) as Empress Eugénie
• Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) as Sabine
• L'Âge des ténèbres (Days of Darkness, aka The Age of Ignorance; 2007) as Karine Tendance
• Le Bruit des gens autour (2008) as Maud
• Coluche, l'histoire d'un mec (2008) as a nurse
• Rien dans les poches (2008; TV) as Marie Manikowski
• L'homme à la tête de kraft (2013)
• The Dune (2014) as Fabienne
• Ker Salloux (2014)
• Les Châteaux de sable (2015) as Eléonore

External links

• Emma de Caunes at the Internet Movie Database
• Emma de Caunes at AllMovie
• Emma de Caunes at AlloCiné (French)
• Emma de Caunes on Facebook
• Emma de Caunes on Twitter