Biography and creative career of Emmanuelle Seigner

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Emmanuelle Seigner is a great actress and model. She also sings songs. These are far from the only hobbies of Emmanuelle, to which she gives herself without a trace. Besides the fact that Seigner is a famous artist, she is also a great mother and wife. Emmanuel has been living with her husband Roman Polanski for over thirty years. The man is a director who managed to create many different films. Seigner herself has built a very successful career. In 2013, she was nominated for a Cesar film award for her role in Venus in Fur.

Biography

Emmanuelle Seigner was born at the end of June 1966. Her hometown is Paris. The future creative life was predetermined for Emmanuelle since childhood, as the girl was born in a family of artists. It turns out that her grandfather Louis Seigner was a theater and film actor who preferred comic roles. The artist's father, Jean-Louis, is a famous photographer, and her mother, Alina Ponel, is an employeeMedia.

The Seigner family had three daughters. The older girls found their calling in acting, and the youngest daughter decided to connect her fate with singing. From early childhood, the sisters were fond of art and began to take part in the films of their father already in their youth. Emmanuelle Seigner was barely fourteen years old when she was first invited to a photo shoot for a magazine. A few years later, Seigner becomes a professional model. Emmanuelle was the owner of a discreet appearance and a height of 173 centimeters. But, to the surprise of many, the girl was more in demand than her other peers with bright and memorable features.

Work in cinematography

At the age of eighteen, Emmanuel Seigner unexpectedly collides with director Jean-Luc Godard. The man was so impressed by the unusual beauty of Emmanuelle that he invited her to play a role in the film project of his own production "Detective", which was released in 1985. Emmanuel, without hesitation, gave a positive answer. At that time, the young actress already had some experience in a film project, the name of which is “The Year of the Jellyfish.”

However, in the film that Godard offered her, Senye appeared in a bright and memorable role as a Bahamian princess. The actors playing the main roles in the film were Johnny Hallyday and Natalie Bye. It was at that time that the artist met her future husband Roman Polanski. The man at that time was already a professional and famous director.

Roman has always had a special interest in younggirls and when he saw Emmanuelle, he decided to invite her to take part in his personal film project called "Furious", which was released in 1988. Harrison Ford played the lead role in the film. The actress herself appeared in the role of a friend of the protagonist. Despite the fact that the film was a huge success, the actress herself did not gain much popularity because of this role, but she was lucky in love. She signed with Roman after the picture was released.

Further career

Polanski's next project was a dramatic film called Bitter Moon. In this film, Emmanuelle Seigner played the role of the main character Mimi. After the release of the picture on the screens, fame and fame finally came to the artist.

The film was based on the strange love story of an elderly foreign writer Oscar and a young girl named Mimi. An unexpectedly flared romance on the basis of passion crosses all boundaries and turns into a real disease with perversions. Polanski was able to tap into his wife's hidden talents and showed the world that Emmanuelle is not only a great model and singer, but also a great actress who can easily fit into any image she is given.

After successful work in this film project, Seigner was able to show everyone what she was capable of, and decided to try her hand at comedy. In 1994, the picture "Smile" appeared in the artist's filmography, which contains the genres of comedy and drama. In 1997, Seigner starred in the comedy film Chasingdeity.”

Film shooting

With the advent of 1998, the artist realized that this year would be the most productive for her. She first appeared in an American film project called "RPM", where she got the leading role. Then she was invited to take part in the French film Place Vendôme. One year later, Emmanuel Seigner again starred in the film of his husband. Roman has been hatching a plan for a long time regarding the creation of a mystical thriller. In 1999, he finally made a film called "The Ninth Gate", where the main characters were played by Johnny Depp and Emmanuelle Seigner.

Currently, the actress continues to actively film. Her most successful work in recent years was the film "Venus in Furs".