Emma de Caunes
Emma de Caunes is a French actress, the daughter of actor and director Antoine de Caunes.Life and career
De Caunes was born in Paris on 9 September 1976 as the daughter of actor and director Antoine de Caunes and director and graphic designer Gaëlle Royer. Her grandparents are journalist Georges de Caunes and Jacqueline Joubert, one of the first continuity announcers on French television. She was married to the singer Sinclair from 2001 to 2005: their daughter, Nina, was born in October 2002. In September 2011, she married comic book artist Jamie Hewlett.
De Caunes's career began in 1988 courtesy of a role in Margot et le voleur d'enfants, a short film by the director Michèle Reiser, her godmother. She obtained her French baccalauréat in film in 1995.
De Caunes appeared in various advertisements before her first major film role in 1997 in Sylvie Verheyde's Un frère, for which she won the Most Promising Actress award at the 1998 César awards. She won the 2002 Prix Romy Schneider, an award given annually to a promising young actress.
She had a main role in the 2007 comedy film Mr. Bean's Holiday, in which she played the role of an actress in Willem Dafoe's character's independent film.Theatre
Filmography
Actress
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