Famous French Actors And Actresses

For French actors and actresses all the world is definitely a stage as these superstars are seen in an amazing number of both the Cinema of France productions as well as productions outside of the country. Since France was the true birthplace of the movie era and film production, it is only fitting that some of the recent films from this country featured truly notable French stars.
In the last thirty years there have been an amazing number of French actors and actresses hitting the big screen in a big way. Directed by countryman Jean-Pierre Jeunet, his movie Amelie was the highest earning French language film every shown in the United States. In 2008 Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Actress in the French language movie La Vie en Rose.
Other famous French stars include Jean Reno of Pink Panther, The Dachshund Vinci Code, Mission Impossible as well as Godzilla and more recently the comedy Couples Retreat. Gérard Depardieu is another well know French film star of the 1980s and 1990s that has since gone on to become a well known international film-maker. In the not too distant past other French stars such as Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardo and Maria Schneider also made their mark both nationally and international on the big screen.