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Élodie Bouchez is a French actress born the April 5th 1973 with Montreuil-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis, France).

César of the best Young person Most promising young actress in 1995 for wild Reeds of Andre Techine.

Price of female role in Cannes in 1998 for Life dreamed of the angels jointly with Natacha Régnier.

She is the mother of a son, Tarrajey, and his/her companion is the French musician Thomas Bangalter of the group Daft Punk.

Biography

Born with Montreuil, on April 5th, 1973, Élodie Bouchez master key a vat has option theater with the college Saint Thomas d' Aquin before starting studies of theater at the University of Paris X Nanterre. Initially dancer, it begins her cinematographic career with sulfurous roles in Stan the Flasher of Serge Gainsbourg and the stolen Book of Christine Lipinska, in which it plays its first great part.

Andre Techine the remark in the young Danger (of Cédric Klapisch) and offers to him one of the principal roles in autobiographical the the wild Reeds . This meeting appears determining for the career of the actress and César of best Jeune most promising young actress in 1995 is worth to him. On turning, it becomes acquainted with Stephan Rideau and Gaël Morel. When this last passes behind the camera, the trio is reformed for At any speed in 1996.

Diversifying its roles, she plays in particular a dumb woman in Clubbed to Death , of Graham Guit (which she finds for the Kidnappers ), a junkie in the Sky is with us and takes part as an main actor in more independent productions like Louise (take 2) in 1997. In 1998, it divides with Natacha Régnier the poster of the Life dreamed of the angels of Erick Zonca. The performance of the two actresses is rewarded for a price of female role in Cannes.

In 1999, it starts a collaboration with her companion Jean-Marc Barr, met on I would not like to burst Sunday (1998). Under the direction of Barr (and Pascal Arnold), Bouchez connects Lovers , Too Much Flesh (with Barr itself) and Being light , the three shutters which compose the " Trilogy of the liberté".

In 2000, it also begins an American career while playing in Shooting vegetarians . One will then find it in CQ , first film of Roman Coppola presented to Cannes in 2000, and in America Brown in 2003. She does not balk either to Tom Thumb play in large French productions such as of Olivier Dahan or in Brice de Nice in 2005.

In 2005, Elodie Stop share with the conquest of Hollywood! It joined the casting of the fifth season of the series Alias (televised series) in which Jennifer Garner, and Michael Vartan incarnates secret agents. She plays Renee Rienne, criminal there continued by the police forces of the whole world. The first episode of this springtide was diffused on September 29th, 2005 on ABC and on February 8th, 2007 in France on the M6 chain of Métropole Television.

She also plays in several episodes of seasons III and IV of the series The L Word, where she holds a secondary role: that of Claude Mondrian, the mistress of Jenny Sckechter at the time when this one reached the literary dedication and sees returning its first love lesbian, Marina.