Marlène Jobert

She was awarded a César d'Honneur (Honorary César) for her outstanding career achievement at the César Award's ceremony in 2007. The applause given by the audience was warm, but there was no standing ovation.

Originally offered the role that Isabelle Huppert played in François Ozon's 8 Women (2002).

Retired from acting in the late 1990s and became a very prolific narrator of audio books. She is also the writer of a series of children's books promoting the appreciation of classical music.

Gave birth to twins (her first and second child) at age 39, a daughters Eva Green (aka Eva Gaëlle Green) and Joy Green on July 5, 1980. Children's father is her husband, Walter Green.

She gave a particularly powerful performance in Maurice Pialat's 1971 production, We Won't Grow Old Together (1972).

Best known outside of France for her role in the Charles Bronson thriller, Rider on the Rain (1970) (aka "Rider on the Rain").

Her big break came with her casting as "Elisabeth" in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Féminin (1966), in which she performed alongside Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Pierre Léaud, and other high profile roles in star-studded casts followed.

She studied drama and fine art in Paris, made her acting debut on the stage in 1963 and secured her first film role in Louis Malle's The Thief of Paris (1967) in 1966.

Became a sex symbol and movie star in France in the late 1960s and enjoyed a great popularity in the following decades. Achieved international recognition in the early 1970s.

Jobert was born in 1940 in Algeria.