Bérénice Bejo
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Bejo at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
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| Born |
7 July 1976 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Nationality | French |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Spouse(s) | Michel Hazanavicius |
| Children | 2 |
Bérénice Bejo (French pronunciation: [be.ʁe.nis be.ʒo]; born 7 July 1976) is a French Argentine actress who played Christiana in the 2001 film A Knight's Tale and Peppy Miller in the 2011 film The Artist.
Her work in The Artist received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won her the César Award for Best Actress. She won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 for her performance in The Past.
Bejo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is the daughter of Argentine filmmaker Miguel Bejo and his wife Silvia, a lawyer. When she was three, her family moved to France, escaping from the Argentine Dirty War.
In 2006, she starred in OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, where she met director Michel Hazanavicius, whom she later married. They have two children: Lucien and Gloria.
In 2001, Bejo made her American film debut, playing the role of Christiana in A Knight's Tale opposite Heath Ledger. Christiana is a lady-in-waiting to Jocelyn (Shannyn Sossamon).
In 2002, she toured in France with Marie-France Pisier and Guillaume Depardieu.
In 2003, Bejo starred as Olivia in 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman by Laurent Bouhnik.
Under the direction of Steve Suissa, she seduces Stephane Freiss and Titoff in The Grand Role (2004), and a comedy about the world of actors, and Cavalcade (2005), a drama dealing with the theme of disability.
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