Career
Marceau started her career at 14 when Claude Pinoteau cast her in the starring role of the teenager movie La Boum (1980).
The family lived a working class life that left Marceau with generally fond memories of childhood. During the week, she helped at the family restaurant. She spent weekends with her family in La Cabane, a small house in Vert-le-Petit in the Essonne.
Her parents divorced when she was nine. Marceau enjoyed school but not studying, although liked reading Molière.[citation needed]
She collected stray and abandoned animals with her older brother. She had a dog named Scotch, a cat called Bidule and adopted a German shepherd at the Société de Protection des Animaux.[citation needed]
In February 1980, Marceau and her mother came across a model agency looking for teenagers. Marceau had photos taken at the agency but did not think anything would come of it. At the same time, Françoise Menidrey, casting director for Claude Pinoteau's La Boum, aske
More about Sophie Marceau (From Wikipedia)
Early Life
Sophie Marceau was born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, the second child of Benoît and Simone Maupu. Her father, Benoît, a veteran of the Algerian War, worked as a truck driver, read more...
Career
Marceau started her career at 14 when Claude Pinoteau cast her in the starring role of the teenager movie La Boum (1980).
The family lived a working class life that left Marceau read more...
Author And Director
In 2001, Marceau wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, Telling Lies, in which the narrator is a beautiful actress who is confident in her beauty and talent and yet insecure. The unnamed read more...
Personal Life
Marceau married the producer Andrzej Żuławski, who is 26 years her senior. Their son Vincent was born in June 1995. In 2001, Marceau separated from Zulawski and became involved read more...