In 1996, it was made into a film of the same name by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth and Naveen Andrews.

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.

For her performance in Lasse Hallström's romantic comedy Chocolat ( 2000 ) Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

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.

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

Further supporting roles followed in a variety of French films: Annick Lanoë's Les Nanas was to give Binoche her most noteworthy role to date, playing opposite established stars Marie-France Pisier and Macha Meril, in a mainstream comedy.

It was to be later in 1985 that Binoche would fully emerge as a leading actress with her role in André Téchiné's Rendez-vous.

The film was a sensation and Binoche became the darling of the festival.

In 1986, Binoche was nominated for her first César for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the 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.

Yet, from a professional and personal point-of-view, both films were significant challenges for Binoche ; her casting opposite Ralph Fiennes's Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, in favour of English actresses Helena Bonham Carter and Kate Beckinsale, was immediately contentious and drew derision from the British press, unimpressed that a uniquely English role had gone to a French actress.

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 an on-set interview, Louis Malle stated that it was the " most difficult " film he had ever made, while Binoche commented that " the first day was one big argument ".

The film was a box-office success around the world and Binoche was again nominated for a César for Best Actress.

In 1996, Binoche appeared in her first comedic role since My Brother-in-Law Killed My Sister a decade before ; A Couch in New York was directed by Chantal Akerman and co-starred William Hurt.

Binoche has said that the shoot on location in Tuscany and at the famed Cinecittà in Rome was among the happiest professional experiences of her career.

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

Next Juliette Binoche was reunited with director André Téchiné for Alice et Martin ( 1998 ), the story of a relationship between an emotionally damaged Parisian musician and her younger lover who hides a dark family secret.

La Veuve de Saint-Pierre ( 2000 ) by Patrice Leconte, for which she was nominated for a César for Best Actress, was a period drama which saw Binoche appear opposite Daniel Auteuil in the role of a woman who attempts to save a condemned man from the guillotine.

Later that year, Binoche made her Broadway debut in an adaptation of Harold Pinter's Betrayal for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.

Juliette Binoche (; born 9 March 1964 ) is a French actress, artist and dancer.

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 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.

The film's opening scene features a brief encounter with four of the main characters: Anne Laurent ( Juliette Binoche ) is an actress working in Paris, and she walks briefly with her boyfriend's younger brother Jean.

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

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.

Both Binoche and director Peter Kosminsky distanced themselves from the film, with Binoche refusing to do any promotion for the film or to redub it into French.

In the film, Modine portrayed a director recounting the story of Mary Magdalene ( 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, French actress

She was the only French cinema actress to receive an Oscar until Juliette Binoche in 1997 ( Supporting Actress ) and Marion Cotillard in 2008 ( Best Actress ), and the first woman to win the award appearing in a foreign film.

He was endorsed by internationally-renowned actress Juliette Binoche.

The multi-plot film concerns an actress ( Binoche ) who stars in a Passion of the Christ-like movie about Jesus, where she plays Mary Magdalene, with whom she subsequently becomes obsessed.

* 1878 – Léon Binoche, French rugby player ( d. 1962 )

Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film Hate ( La Haine ) received critical praise and made Vincent Cassel a star, and in 1997, Juliette Binoche won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The English Patient.

* 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

* 1995: Lancôme gala – launch of the perfume “ Poème ” with Juliette Binoche.

When her parents divorced in 1968, four year old Binoche and her sister Marion were sent to a provincial boarding school.

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

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

Juliette Binoche in 1985.

Godard requested a meeting with Binoche having seen a photo of her taken by her boyfriend of the time.

In April 1985, Binoche followed this with another supporting role in Bob Decout's Adieu Blaireau, a policier thriller starring Philippe Léotard and Annie Girardot.

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

In August 1986, Binoche began filming Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, portraying the young and innocent Tereza.