Actors and the role of the film "Amelie". The actress who played the main role: who is she?

In 2016, fifteen years have passed since the film "Amelie" appeared on the screens. This touching film immediately became a cult, and the French actors who played in it, gained worldwide fame. But the most popular was Audrey Tautou (actress in the role of Amelie).

The film "Amelie": the plot

The plot of this movie is pretty simple. The whole story is centered around the life of a charming girl named Amelie. She is kind and inquisitive, but very lonely. However, Amelie is not used to falling into despair, the girl is able to find happiness in pleasant everyday trivialities, and then decides that her goal is to help other people find happiness.

Trying to improve the lives of those around her, Amelie unexpectedly meets her soul mate.

Character Amelie

The central character of the whole film, as the name implies, is the young and somewhat naive Frenchwoman Amelie Poulain. She takes a tiny apartment in Paris and works as a waitress in the cafe "Two Mills". An aging father, living alone in their old house, regular visitors to the cafe, and also eccentric neighbors - that's the whole world of this girl. However, the heroine perceives reality not as others.

By itself, Amelie is deeply alone, and from the earliest childhood. Everyone she loved was leaving her life. My mother accidentally died, my favorite fish swam away, my father does not pay enough attention to his baby, and Amelie is not allowed to go to school. In the absence of friends Amelie saves only her wild imagination.

Once, already an adult, Amelie found an old box with toys of one boy who forgot her in his cache many years ago. The girl returned the thing to the owner and decided that her mission was to change the life of the people around her. With the help of cheerful tricks, deceit and another girl, it is gradually possible to carry out the conceived. But unfortunately, not everyone to whom she helped, can be happy, despite all her efforts.

The main characters of the film

The second half of the beauty Amelie is Nino Kenkoppua.

This guy is as lonely as the girl, and just as strange. His hobby is to collect scraps of torn photos near the photoboard and collect images from them. All of his "work" Nino pastes into a special album, which accidentally ends up with Amelie. She falls in love with the album's owner, and to attract his attention, arranges a real quest for Nino. The role of Nino was performed by Mathieu Cassowitz - a famous French director and actor.

One of the most touching and tragic characters in this picture is the neighbor of the girl Ramon Dufael - a "glass man".

His bones are extremely fragile by nature, and in order not to damage them, he constantly wears warm clothes, and also does not leave the house. Outside the world he observes with a telescope. In his spare time, an eccentric imitates Renoir's paintings, one every year. With Amelie, they quickly find a common language. The girl is trying to wake up interest in life with all her might, but everything is not going as she planned, but it is quite safe. Ramona played Serge Merlin.

In addition to the "glass man", Amelie also tried to help her lonely neighbor named Madeleine Wallace.

She had a difficult break with her husband in the past, and she never recovered from what had happened, and after that her husband died. To help her, the girl forges the letter of her deceased husband and Madeleine calms down and begins to live in a new way. The role of Madeleine was performed by the Belgian actress Yolanda Moro. Father Amelie played Ryfus.

This character does not figure much in the film. His trouble is that he was stuck at home and nowhere else. To help him, Amelie kidnaps his father's favorite garden gnome and gives it away for a time to the familiar stewardess. She travels while photographing the gnome in the most famous corners of the earth and sending photos to Pope Amelie. As a result, Monsieur Poulain goes on a journey.

Also worth mentioning is a minor character named Lucien.

He is a good fellow, but he is offended by the owner of the shop. To help the guy, Amelie arranges the offender's "merry" life. The character was performed by the famous actor Jamel Debbuz.

Another world-famous French actor Dominique Piñon played the role of the jealous Joseph, who always watches over his former.

The girl tried to help this man and arranged his novel with a lonely Georgette.

This heroine was played by Isabelle Nanti - a famous French actress. Amelie hoped that the lives of these singles would improve, but soon it turned out that these two were simply unable to be happy, regardless of the circumstances.

Audrey Tautou is an actress from the film "Amelie"

The role of the beautiful and touching Amelie went to the French actress Audrey Tautou.

If for the audience of the whole world before the movie "Amelie" the actress was unknown, then at home she managed to become famous and without the help of this significant role.

The early years of the actress

The future star was born in the family of a dentist. Since childhood, fond of biology, as well as playing musical instruments (the actress perfectly plays the piano and oboe).

At first, Audrey Tautou did not plan to become an actress, as she was more attracted to biology classes. However, loving parents convinced their child to try their strength in the profession of an actress, paying for her courses in the theater school of Paris "Kur-Floran".

Moving to Paris, the future Amelie not only studied, but also worked as a secretary. Soon the luck smiled at her, and the pleasant girl was taken in the detective television series "Julie Lescaut". Before that, she had almost two tiny roles for almost two years.

Having won the French contest of young talents, Audrey Tautou got a role in the film "Beauty Salon" Venus ". In this project she managed to prove herself, although her role was relatively small.

After the film, the young actress was noticed and began to be invited to appear in serious projects.

In 2000, Audrey won a major role in the film "The Wing of the Wings of the Moth". The irony is that this project in the world rolled out after the noisy "Amelie". Actress in the title role in both films, she was already at the peak of popularity. Therefore, the creators of "Vzmah" decided to use this and announced the film as "Ameli-2", although, in fact, it is not so.

How Audrey Tautou became Amelie

At first, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (film director) wanted to play the role of Amelie, an actress named Emily Watson.

It was taking into account the peculiarities of her playing style and appearance that the script was written. Unfortunately, this was not meant to come true, as the actress was engaged in another project, and besides, she did not speak French well.

Again, the director of the film "Amelie" needed the main actress. Thinking about who to invite to this role, Zhenya accidentally noticed on the street a poster of a new film with Audrey Tautou. The photo of the young actress he liked so much that he invited the girl to sample and soon approved it for the main role.

"Amelie": actress Audrey Tautou after participating in the film

In 2001, along with the release of the film "Amelie" in France, there was another project with Audrey Toth, but he did not become so successful, and not appearing in the world box office.

After the phenomenal success of "Amelie", the actress realized that she could become a victim of one role. That's why Audrey Tautou began to try herself in other roles. So, her next work was an intricate psychologically thriller À la folie ... pas du tout. Here Totu was superbly played by a psycho.

In the same year, two more films with this actress appeared on TV screens, and in each of them she tried to be different.

In 2004, Jeune again invited Audrey to work with him. This time the film narrated about the girl, investigating the circumstances of the death of her lover in the war.

Together with Thoth in this picture, and played another world-famous French actress - Marion Cotillard. Despite the fact that this film turned out pretty good, because of financial disputes and other troubles, he did not manage to get out on time in time. This deprived him of the opportunity to participate in prestigious festivals and to be nominated for an Oscar.

Having played in the continuation of the 2002 comedy "Spaniard", which was released in 2005, Audrey was invited to appear in the scandalous film "Da Vinci Code."

After the success of this project, the actress returned to her homeland and continued to star in French cinema.

Thanks to the image of a purely French actress, in 2009 she managed to get the role of the legendary Coco Chanel.

The film turned out to be very good and successful, despite the fact that a year earlier, a project with Shirley MacLaine "Coco Chanel" was released.

The talented actress was even nominated for "Cesar" and BAFTA for this role, but Audrey never received these awards.

Audrey Tautou today

In recent years, this French actress continues to actively withdraw. Unfortunately, she rarely leaves her native country, preferring French cinema, although she is able to act in international projects, since she speaks German and English fluently. Most of her films in recent years are melodramas and romantic comedies.

In 2012, with the participation of Audrey Tautou, the picture "Theresa D." was released, which is almost the same adaptation of the famous novel by François Mauriac "Theresa Descaires". Despite the fact that the critics met this picture quite cool, Totu played her heroine in a truly magnificent manner.

In addition to working in film, the actress does not leave the theater, periodically participating in productions.

In 2015, with her participation came two films, in 2016 also planned several more films with Audrey Tautou. So the actress continues to be loved not only by the audience, but also by the filmmakers.

In the history of cinema there are few such phenomena as the movie "Amelie". The actress who performed the main role (Audrey Tautou), so perfectly got used to it, that for the whole world Amelie was always a dreamer, even after so many years and roles in the cinema.

Recently, in the press, rumors of a possible continuation of the film sometimes flash. However, unlikely Zhenya will go for this even for the sake of huge money, because the film "Amelie" is unique and it is impossible to repeat it.