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Anne Parillaud

Parillaud in 2014

Born(1960-05-06) 6 May 1960 (age 64)

Paris, France

OccupationActress
Years active1977–2012
Spouse(s)
Children3

Anne Parillaud (French: [an paʁijo]; born 6 May 1960) is a French actress who has been active since 1977. She is best known internationally for playing the title character in Luc Besson's film La Femme Nikita.

Biography

Parillaud was born in Paris. While in school she studied ballet and her ambition was to become a lawyer, but a role during summer vacation – when she was only 16 – in Michel Lang's L'hôtel de la plage (1978) launched her into the world of film. She had a three-year relationship with actor Alain Delon and co-starred with him in his only two films as director, Pour la peau d'un flic (1981) and Le Battant (1983).

She met director Luc Besson and they started a relationship. They married in 1986, but the couple separated shortly after he directed her in La Femme Nikita (1990). La Femme Nikita was an especially intense exp

Anne Parillaud

Svelte French beauty Anne Parillaud made her film debut in "L'Hotel de la Plage" (1978) while still in her teens and appeared in several more European movies before aligning herself both on and off the screen with French auteur Alain Delon, acting in his crime dramas ("Pour la Peau d'un flic" 1981 and "Le Battant" 1983). She broke through to international stardom as the punk junkie transformed into a murderous, stylish secret agent in "La Femme Nikita" (1990), the role written for her by Luc Besson, the film's director and Parillaud's companion for several years. When "Nikita" became an art-house hit in the USA, a move to American features was inevitable.

Parillaud's first Hollywood film was John Landis' "Innocent Blood" (1992), a violent horror comedy co-starring Anthony LaPaglia, in which she approached her role as a lonely vampire with admirable empathy and conviction. This clever and savvy genre film, however, failed with critics and at the box office. Her next credit was an ambitious international co-production, Vincent Ward's "Map of the Human Heart" (1993),

Anne Parillaud

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1960 - Today

Anne Parillaud

Anne Parillaud (French pronunciation: [an paʁijo]; born 6 May 1960) is a French actress who has been active since 1977. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Parillaud has received more than 1,738,859 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Anne Parillaud is the 756th most popular actor (up from 919th in 2019), the 1,319th most popular biography from France (up from 1,544th in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Actor.

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Among actors, Anne Parillaud ranks 756 out of 13,578. Before her are Ajay Devgn, Andy Serkis, Cybill Shepherd, Boris Karloff, Isabel Sarli, and Tyler Perry. After her are Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Balsam, Wentworth Miller, Kelly Lynch, Max Wright, and Horst Tappert.

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