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Carole Bouquet
Born	18 August 1957 (1957-08-18) (age 52) Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Years active	1977–present
Spouse(s)	Jean-Pierre Rassam (?–1985) Jacques Liebowitch (1992–1996)

Carole Bouquet (born 18 August 1957) is a French actress and fashion model, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1977. Bouquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

She is best known internationally for her role as Bond girl Melina Havelock in the 1981 movie For Your Eyes Only, but she also acted in a number of mainstream European films throughout the 1980s and continues to do so in France.

She is also recognized for her work in Luis Buñuel's surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and in the internationally successful film Too Beautiful For You (1989), in which she won the César Award for Best Actress. Also she received a César Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Rive droite, rive gauche (1984)

Bouquet was a model for Chanel in the 1990s. She is the widow of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam with whom she had a son, Dimitri Rassam. From 1997 to 2005, she dated actor Gérard Depardieu, with whom she had worked several times. Bouquet was engaged to him from 2003 to 2005.

In 1999 she was also a member of the jury of the 4th Shanghai International Film Festival.

Partial filmography

Bouquet with Gérard Depardieu at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

• That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
• Il Cappotto di Astrakan (1979)
• Buffet froid (1979)
• Blank Generation (1980)
• For Your Eyes Only (1981)
• Bingo Bongo (1982)
• Der Tag der Idioten (1982)
• Mystère (1983)
• Le Bon roi Dagobert (1984)
• Rive droite, rive gauche (1984)
• Nemo (1984)
• Spécial police (1985)
• Double messieurs (1986)
• La Coda del diavolo (1986)
• Jenatsch (1987)
• New York Stories (1989)
• Trop belle pour toi (1989)
• Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989)
• Donne con le gonne (1991)
• Tango (1993)
• A Business Affair (1994)
• Grosse Fatigue (1994)
• Poussières d'amour - Abfallprodukte der Liebe (1996)
• Lucie Aubrac (1997)
• Le Rouge et le Noir (1997) (TV)
• En plein coeur (1998)
• Un pont entre deux rives (1999)
• Wasabi (2001)
• Embrassez qui vous voudrez (2002)
• Blanche (2002)
• Bienvenue chez les Rozes (2003)
• Feux rouges (2004)
• Les Fautes d'orthographe (2004)
• Nordeste (2005)
• Travaux, on sait quand ça commence... (2005)
• L'Enfer (2005)

TV

• Sex & the City episode An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux (2004)

Bibliography

• Goux, Yves (1998). "Interview, article and other trace". yvesgoux.net-koncept.com. Télémoustique. http://yvesgoux.net-koncept.com/index.php/?2006/10/26/9-carole-bouquet. Retrieved 2006-10-26.   (French)

External links

• Carole Bouquet at the Internet Movie Database
• Carole Bouquet at Allmovie
• Carole Bouquet at Yahoo! Movies
• Carole Bouquet at AlloCiné (French)

César Award for Best Actress 1976: Romy Schneider • 1977: Annie Girardot • 1978: Simone Signoret • 1979: Romy Schneider • 1980: Miou-Miou • 1981: Catherine Deneuve • 1982: Isabelle Adjani • 1983: Nathalie Baye • 1984: Isabelle Adjani • 1985: Sabine Azéma • 1986: Sandrine Bonnaire • 1987: Sabine Azéma • 1988: Anémone • 1989: Isabelle Adjani • 1990: Carole Bouquet • 1991: Anne Parillaud • 1992: Jeanne Moreau • 1993: Catherine Deneuve • 1994: Juliette Binoche • 1995: Isabelle Adjani • 1996: Isabelle Huppert • 1997: Fanny Ardant • 1998: Ariane Ascaride • 1999: Élodie Bouchez • 2000: Karin Viard • 2001: Dominique Blanc • 2002: Emmanuelle Devos • 2003: Isabelle Carré • 2004: Sylvie Testud • 2005: Yolande Moreau • 2006: Nathalie Baye • 2007: Marina Hands • 2008: Marion Cotillard • 2009: Yolande Moreau