Throughout her career Binoche has intermittently appeared on stage, most notably in a 1998 London production of Luigi Pirandello's Naked and in a 2000 production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on Broadway for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.

Binoche has stated that this perceived parental abandonment had a profound effect on her.

Binoche has commented that Rouffio's film is very significant to her career as it taught her to judge roles based on the quality of the screenplay and her connection with a director, not on the reputation of other cast members.

Binoche has stated that she, " discovered the camera ", while shooting this film.

Binoche has stated that at the time her English was very limited and that she relied on a French translation to fully grasp her role.

In fact Binoche has nicknamed her characters from this period as her " sorrowful sisters ".

Binoche has said her inspirations for the role were her friend and coach Vernice Klier who suffered a similar tragedy, and the book The Black Veil by Anny Duperey which deals with the author's grief at losing her parents at a young age.

Binoche has described this event as being like " an earthquake " to her.

Over the years Cassella has had the privilege of interviewing comedy legends such as Phyllis Diller, Bea Arthur, and Joan Rivers, as well as performers such as William H. Macy, Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robert Downey Jr., Laura Linney, Eartha Kitt, and k. d.

Since then Wilson, with producer Esther Gordon ( for among others Brad Pitt, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert Downey, Jr., Winona Ryder, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Deeta von Teese, and Peter Sarsgaard ) and later with Matthew Shattuck, has produced dozens of high-definition videos known as the Voom Portraits.

He has worked with Juliette Binoche ( Code Unknown in 2000 and Caché in 2005 ), after she expressed interest in working with him.

Second, top-level casting that has given us Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet and Ivanov, Kevin Spacey in The Iceman Cometh and Juliette Binoche in Naked.

The Red Balloon has inspired Flight of the Red Balloon, a 2008 French feature film, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien and starring Juliette Binoche.

Sher also has worked on 2007's Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche and the 2009 release I Love You, Man with Paul Rudd.

In a 2000 interview, Newman said that he had scripted an Anno Dracula movie for Stuart Pollok and André Jacquemetton, who originally wanted Daniel Day-Lewis and Isabelle Adjani for Beauregard and Geneviève, and then Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche after they became too old.

Following the long shoot of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Binoche relocated to London for the 1992 productions of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Damage, both of which considerably enhanced her international reputation.

Three Colors: Blue, The Horseman on the Roof and A Couch in New York all gave Binoche the opportunity to work with prestigious directors she had turned down during the prolonged shoot of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf.

Binoche was released from the film six weeks into the shoot due to differences with Berri regarding the authenticity of his script.

* In My Country ( 2004 ), very loosely based on Country of My Skull, an autobiographical text by Antjie Krog which dealt with her coverage of the hearings, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche

Affectionately referred to as " La Binoche " by the French press, her other notable performances include: Mauvais Sang ( 1986 ), Les Amants du Pont-Neuf ( 1991 ), Damage ( 1992 ), The Horseman on the Roof ( 1995 ), Code Unknown ( 2000 ), Caché ( 2005 ), Breaking and Entering ( 2006 ) and Flight of the Red Balloon ( 2007 ).

Her role required just two days on set, but was enough to inspire Binoche to pursue a career in film.

Rendez-Vous is the story of a provincial actress, Nina ( Binoche ), who arrives in Paris and embarks on a series of dysfunctional liaisons with several men, including the moody, suicidal Quentin ( Lambert Wilson ).

In the film Binoche portrays an artist who lives rough on the famous Parisian bridge where she meets another young vagrant ( Denis Lavant ).

During a break in filming in 1990, Binoche spent five days shooting Mara for Mike Figgis, based on Henry Miller's Quiet Days in Clichy.

Damage, a UK and French co-production, is the story of a British conservative minister played by Jeremy Irons who embarks on a torrid affair with his son's fiancée ( Binoche ).

Based on the novel by Josephine Hart and directed by veteran French director Louis Malle, Damage seemed to be the ideal international vehicle for Binoche ; however the production was wrought with difficulties and dogged by rumours of serious conflict.

In 1995, Binoche returned to the screen in a big-budget adaptation of Jean Giono's The Horseman on the Roof directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.

After this international hit, Binoche returned to France and began work opposite Daniel Auteuil on Claude Berri's Lucie Aubrac, the true story of a French Resistance heroine.

Back on screen, Binoche was the heroine of the Lasse Hallström film Chocolat from the best selling novel by Joanne Harris.

Fiennes first worked on screen in 1990 and then made his film debut in 1992 as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights opposite Juliette Binoche, for which he received substantial acclaim and praise throughout Europe.

She later went on to star in Children of the Century and Chocolat ( 2000 ), both as the daughter of Juliette Binoche.

In 2004, a film based on the book, called In My Country starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche was made by director John Boorman.

Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno at Cannes in 2002

French cinema continued its upward trend of earning awards at the Cannes Festival, including the prestigious Grand Prix for Of Gods and Men ( 2010 ) and the Jury Prize for Poliss ( 2011 ); the Best Director Award for Mathieu Amalric ( On Tour, 2010 ); the Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche ( Certified Copy, 2010 ); and the Best Actor Award for Jean Dujardin ( The Artist, 2011 ).

Three years later Binoche gained further acclaim in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient ( 1996 ), for which she was awarded an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress in addition to the Best Actress Award at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival.

During their teens, the Binoche sisters spent their school holidays with their maternal grandmother, not seeing either parent for months at a time.

In the summer of 1988, Binoche returned to the stage in an acclaimed production of Anton Checkov's The Seagull directed by Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky at Théâtre De L ' odéon in Paris.

At this point, Binoche seemed to be at a crossroads in her career.

Juliette Binoche at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

Three Colors: Blue premiered at the 1993 Venice Film Festival, landing Binoche the Best Actress Prize.

Binoche at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

While the film was thought to have its " heart and politics in the right place " it was otherwise panned by the Washington Post as a " formula romance ", in which Binoche fails at the Afrikaans accent and Jackson's character, Langston Whitfield, lacks credibility as a Post reporter.