Biography
Emmanuelle Béart is a French film actress, who has appeared in over 50 film and television productions since 1972. Béart won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Manon des Sources (1986). She has been nominated a further seven times for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Film Study 01
2025
as Footage from La Belle Noiseuse
Estudio Fílmico 01 is an experimental reinterpretation of a scene from La Belle Noiseuse by Jacques Rivette, processed through a multi-layered transfo...

Such a Resounding Silence
2024
Through this documentary, Emmanuelle Béart aims to uncover the truth about incest. The actress, accompanied by director Anastasia Mikova, breaks her s...

Such a Resounding Silence
2024
Writer, Director
Through this documentary, Emmanuelle Béart aims to uncover the truth about incest. The actress, accompanied by director Anastasia Mikova, breaks her s...

Amélia Starlight
2024
as Amelia Starlight
French chanson star Amélia Starlight is dying. More than a decade has passed since the singer abruptly retired from TV shows and concert halls. Tonigh...

L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
as Self (archive footage)
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of ...

The Passengers of the Night
2022
as Vanda Dorval
On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marr...

Margaux Hartmann
2020
as Margaux Hartmann
Recently widowed fifty-something Margaux looks to start chapter two. Moving in with her sister, she re-enrolls at university for pursuits she’d never ...

Wonders in the Suburbs
2020
as Emmanuelle Joly
Political rivals try to sabotage a new mayor and her eccentric plans for an underprivileged French municipality.

Architecture
2019
A staging of Pascal Rambert's play "Architecture" by himself.

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
2019
as Self - Actress
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Dani...

Beyond the Known World
2017
as Louise
Recently divorced Carl and Julie are not on good terms. When their 19-year-old daughter goes missing in India, they must journey into the Himalayas in...

Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
2015
as Self

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014

My Mistress
2014
as Maggie
After experiencing a tragic event, a teenager is comforted by an older French woman who convinces him that an S&M relationship will help him heal.

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
2014
as Iris Dupin
Josephine and Iris, sisters with opposite personalities, have their relationship radically transformed while working on a book.

Electra, for Instance
2013
as Chrysothémis
An homage to Greek tragedy.

The Rest of the World
2012
as Katia
A family drama. A deceased mother and a father with a new wife. Three sisters; the middle one has lost her lover by whom she is pregnant. During a fam...

Pirate TV
2012
as Patricia Gabriel
It all began when camcorders replaced cameras. Making TV programs then became within everyone's reach. Jean-Lou, Yasmina, Victor, Clara, Adonis, and t...

Bye Bye Blondie
2012
as Frances
A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth.

The Desert of Love
2012
as Maria Cross
A doctor and his son fall in love for the same woman, who has lost her child.

Ma compagne de nuit
2011
as Julia
Julia is suffering from a terminal illness. While in hospital she encounters Marine and, taking advantage of the young woman's precarious financial si...

The Great Restaurant II
2011
as The cynical friend
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.

It Begins with the End
2010
as Gabrielle
A woman, a man, a summer in Paris. Passion, break ups, reconciliations. A love story in disarray...

Just The Three of Us
2010
as Marie, the mother
1970s, six-and-a-half-year-old Sébastien is a sensitive, highly imaginative child. Despite the affection he feels for his father, a dreamy inventor, h...

My Stars
2008
as Isabelle Séréna
Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but fully devotes himself to them, and sometimes works for th...

Vinyan
2008
as Janet Belhmer
Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.

Disco
2008
as France
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his so...

The Witnesses
2007
as Sarah
Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Family Hero
2006
as Léa O'Connor
A story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" ("The blue parrot"). The innkeeper, Gabriel, dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his...

A Crime
2006
as Alice Parker
Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit,...

Hell
2005
as Sophie
Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

French Beauty
2005
A story about the riddle of femininity in French cinema.

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005
as Emmanuelle Béart (uncredited)
Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip-page stratosphere, Jiminy Glick, a small-time journalist with big aspirations and...

The Art of Breaking Up
2005
as Lucette
Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. He is a spoiled but penniless child who wants it all while she is a celebrated f...

D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
2005
as Milady Winter
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of ...

À boire
2004
as Inès Larue
Three disparate people meet in a bizarre skiing accident: an alcoholic doctor who has just been left by his wife, a beautiful but directionless woman,...

Nathalie...
2003
as Nathalie / Marlène
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hopin...

The Story of Marie and Julien
2003
as Marie
Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he ...

Strayed
2003
as Odile
Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a coc...

Overnight
2003
as Self
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches stor...

Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

Heart of the Festival
2002
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.

8 Women
2002
as Louise
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the hous...

Replay
2001
as Nathalie
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the ...

Fortune Tellers and Misfortune
2001
as Chantal
Chantel is happy: her son's away at school playing soccer, she and her husband get along, her neighbor Agnès is her best friend, and her job at a gove...

Sentimental Destinies
2000
as Pauline Pommerel
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He ...

Season's Beatings
1999
as Sonia
Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; ...

Elephant Juice
1999
as Jules
The story of Billy, Will, Jules, Daphne and Dodie, a group of people who prove that there are no secrets between friends. It all comes out in the end.

Time Regained
1999
as Gilberte
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have ...

Stolen Life
1998
as Alda
Three women live together in an old rectory on the seashore. Alda lends her body to a string of carnal relationships but never commits her feelings. O...

The Last Little Red Riding Hood
1998
as Le petit chaperon rouge
A old red riding hood, badly crippled after killing a monster many years ago, comes up with a sinister plan to dance again.

Don Juan
1998
as Elvire
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countr...

Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
1997

Mission: Impossible
1996
as Claire
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated...

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995
as Nelly
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. Whi...

A French Woman
1995
as Jeanne
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a PO...

Jan Kounen - Intégrale courts métrages
1994
All Shorts film of Jan Kounen Director

Torment
1994
as Nelly
Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning his past choices. Convinced that his wife has ...

Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex
1994

Rupture(s)
1993
as Lucie
When a woman fed-up with life in general commits suicide, what's left ? In the same vein, a lover, a mother, a friend, a few buddies, all orphans, all...

A Heart in Winter
1992
as Camille
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be ...

La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
1992
as Marianne
More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one bein...

Against Oblivion
1991
as Self
Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea ...

I Don't Kiss
1991
as Ingrid
A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too ...

La Belle Noiseuse
1991
as Marianne
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visit...

The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
1990
as Isabella
Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th centu...

Children of Chaos
1989
as Marie
Is there still a chance for Marie, an unwed young mother and a former drugs addicted prostitute, who is sent to a reformatory school?

Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
1988
as Éva
Yan is a successful artist. One day he is waiting for his date Florence to turn up at his apartment. As the doorbell rings, he finds another young wom...

Date with an Angel
1987
as Angel
Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, b...

Manon of the Spring
1986
as Manon Cadoret
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots ven...

La répétition ou L'amour puni
1986
as Lucile

Love on the Quiet
1985
as Samantha Page, call girl
A lawyer hires a call girl after learning his wife has invited her lover to move in; the husband and wife separate and the two new couples live side-b...

Raison perdue
1984
as Sonia Mornant
A young girl accuses her parents of being murderers. Hurriedly committed to an asylum, she attracts the attention of a psychologist who is determined ...

A Strange Passion
1984
as Constanza
French film based on the story Der Findling by german author Heinrich von Kleist.

First Desires
1983
as Hélène
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begin...

Tomorrow's Children
1976
as Lila
The hero of this bleak science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the mysterious destruction of the world. After his wi...

And Hope to Die
1972
as Child (uncredited)
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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