Marion Cotillard is a French academy-award winning actress, who was born on 30th September, 1975 in Orléans, France. She was raised in a household of various artists (including entertainers, actors, painters and directors) and from this, decided to become an actress at a young age. She made her debut as a child, playing a role in one of her father’s plays. Cotillard’s career as a film actress began when she was a teenager in the mid-1990s. She made her cinema debut in the French film, L'Histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse (1994) and in 1996, Cotillard made her first leading role in the TV film, Chloé. She made her first film award for her role in the short film, Affaire Classée (1997) at the Rencontres Cinématographiques d'Istres