Victoire Thivisol Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Victoire Thivisol (born July 6, 1991) is a French film actress.She first gained acclaim for her role as a child coping with her mother's death in the 1996 film, Ponette and became the youngest actress to win the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival. She later went on to star in Children of the Century and Chocolat (2000), both as the daughter of Juliette Binoche. In 2007 she was cast in Les grands s'allongent par terre (2008). The director, Emmanuel Saget, was so impressed with her that he subsequently rewrote the film around her character.
On Lasse Hallström, her director in Chocolat (2000): I loved working with Lasse. He's so sweet and nice and he listened to my ideas.
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On what she loves about acting: Meeting new people. And I can escape from school. I hate school.
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On how she began acting: A woman who worked for Jacques Doillon came to my school and saw me. Jacques phoned my mom, and then my mom asked me if I wanted to act in Ponette (1996), and I said yes.
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For her performance in Ponette (1996)_, she was the first of only two actresses to be rewarded a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival for their film debut: the other is Ariane Labed for her performance in Attenberg (2010).
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Began filming "Tous les chats sont gris la nuit," a full-length film by Savina Dellicour; filming is expected to finish in 2010. [March 2009]
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Plans to enter Université Lyon 2 for the 2009-2010 school year and to study cinema and anthropology. [2009]
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Filming of Ponette (1996) began on September 20, 1995.
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At the Venice Film Festival, a reporter asked Victoire how she made herself cry so much as Ponette. Victoire, then age five, replied that it was normal for Ponette to cry because her mother was dead.
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Jacques Doillon gave Victoire a puppy as a special reward for winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. He presented the puppy to her inside the actual Volpi Cup.
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After seeing an interview that Victoire did for a special edition DVD of Ponette (1996), Emmanuel Saget immediately wanted her for his film Grown-Ups Lie Down on the Ground (2008). He sent her a copy of the script, and a week later, she called him and said that she would be in the film.
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During the mid-2000s, Victoire was a member of ACT 1, a Paris-based talent agency that has represented other young French actresses like Flora Cross and Claire Bouanich.
She described her character in Chocolat (2000) as a "funny, tricky little girl, just like me".
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Roman Polanski headed the nine-member jury that chose her as winner of the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival; Polanski defended the decision to those who criticized it, saying that the jury unanimously voted for her.
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In 1996, at age four, she became the youngest winner of the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival.
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After completing Ponette (1996), she was allowed to keep the doll (called Yoyotte in the film) and the teddy bear that belonged to her character.
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Her parents separated shortly before she finished filming Ponette (1996).
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She and Johnny Depp played video games together on the set of Chocolat (2000).
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In 2004, she wrote a short story about an adolescent girl who loses her mother, but she does not plan to publish it.
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Offered a role in a music video by the French rock band Superbus, but she declined the offer.
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Although she speaks English fluently, her voice was dubbed over for a few scenes in Chocolat (2000) because her thick French accent made her difficult to understand.
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She plays the piano.
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She is bilingual in French and English.
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Discovered at age 3 and a half by director Jacques Doillon and cast in his film Ponette (1996) as title character.
$700,000
