Portrait of Sandrine Bonnaire

Sandrine Bonnaire

Acting

Biography

Sandrine Bonnaire (born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films including Hollywood movies. Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in 1983, when she starred in the Maurice Pialat film À nos amours. She played a girl from the suburbs beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984 she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress. Her international breakthrough came in 1986 when she played the main character in Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond), directed by Agnès Varda, for which she won her second César Award. She portrays a vagrant who fails both physically and morally. The film Monsieur Hire directed by Patrice Leconte followed in 1989, along with further work with directors Jacques Doillon and Claude Sautet. In 2004, she starred in another Patrice Leconte's film: Intimate Strangers, which was an arthouse box office hit in the United States. Bonnaire has a daughter, Jeanne, from a relationship with actor William Hurt, whom she met in 1991 during filming of the Albert Camus novel La Peste (The Plague). They acted together in Secrets Shared with a Stranger (1994). Since March 2003 she has been married to actor and screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, with whom she has had a second daughter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandrine Bonnaire, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: May 31, 1967

Place of Birth: Gannat, Allier, France

Filmography

2024
2024
Limonov: The Ballad

as Radio Host Paris

2024
The Soul Eater

as Docteur Carole Marbas

2023
Dance First

as Suzanne

2023
Comme une louve

as Élodie Piat

2023
2023
Umami

as Louise

2022
Women at War

as Éléonore Dewitt

2022
2022
2022
Love Is Better Than Life

as Sandrine Massaro

2021
Happening

as Gabrielle Duchesne

2021
Les Damnés de la Commune

as Louise Michel (voice)

2020
2020
Agnes V. by Jane B.

as Self (Archive Footage)

2019
Three Days and a Life

as Blanche Courtin

2019
2018
The Truk

as Gabrielle

2018
A Season in France

as Carole Blaszak

2017
2016
Heaven Will Wait

as Catherine Bouzaria

2016
Bébés volés

as Inès Barras

2016
2015
2015
Capitaine Marleau

as Jeanne Dewaere

2014
Blood Red

as Alma

2014
We Love You, You Bastard

as Nathalie Béranger

2013
Adieu Paris

as Françoise Dupret

2013
2011
Signature

as Daphné

2009
Queen to Play

as Hélène

2008
The Beaches of Agnès

as Self (archive footage)

2008
Mark of an Angel

as Claire Vigneaux

2008
A Simple Heart

as Félicité

2008
2006
Le Procès de Bobigny

as Martine Lang

2004
The Light

as Mabé

2004
2003
Musique et Travellings

as Self (Archive Footage)

2003
Resistance

as Lucette Oomlop

2003
La maison des enfants

as Margaux Dampierre

2002
Femme Fatale

as Special Guest Cannes Film Festival

2001
C'est la vie

as Suzanne

2001
Mademoiselle

as Claire Canselier

1999
East/West

as Marie

1999
The Color of Lies

as Vivianne Sterne

1998
1998
1998
Debt of Love

as Monica Besse

1997
Never Ever

as Katherine Beaufort

1997
Une femme en blanc

as Margaux Dampierre

1995
La Ceremonie

as Sophie Bonhomme

1995
One Hundred and One Nights

as The Transformable Wanderer

1994
1992
The Plague

as Martine Rambert

1992
Prague

as Elena

1992
1990
1989
1989
1988
1988
Jaune revolver

as Angèle Dubreuil

1987
The Innocents

as Jeanne

1987
1986
The Prude

as Manon

1985
Vagabond

as Mona Bergeron

1985
Police

as Lydie

1985
A Better Life

as Véronique

1985
1984
Fire on Sight

as Marilyn

1983
A Nos Amours

as Suzanne

1982
The Party 2

as High school student (silhouette) (uncredited)

1982
1978
Cinématon

as N°238 / N°1742

1974