Beart obtained an acting role in the 1976 film Tomorrow's Children. In her teens she appeared in bit parts in television then went to Montreal, Canada to work as a nanny before returning to France the following year to attend drama school in Paris. A short time later she was cast in her first adult role in a film, and in 1986 she achieved fame with her role opposite Yves Montand, in the film Manon Read more...

Beart was born Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson in St. Tropez, on the French Riviera, the daughter of Geneviève Galéa, a homemaker and former model, and Guy Béart, a singer and poet. Beart's mother is of Greek, Maltese, and Italian descent, and her father is of Spanish, Swiss, and Russian ancestry. After a ten-year relationship with Daniel Auteuil (her co-star in Manon of the Spring, A French Read more...

Emmanuelle Béart (born August 14, 1963) is a French film actress.