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Anne Parillaud
was born in Paris, France on May 16, 1960, and is still a Paris
resident. Anne studied ballet in school, and her first appearance
was in the film Un amour de sable (1977) where she played "La
jeune fille avec un petit chat" ("The girl with a kitten"),
however, her first real role was as Estelle in Hôtel de
la plage, L'. (1978). Anne was in 8 other films, and then she
gave her breakout performance in her signature role as Nikita
in the wildly popular Nikita (1990), aka "La Femme Nikita"
(1991) (USA), which spun off the American remake "Point
of No Return" (1993) starring Bridget Fonda, and the USA
TV series "La Femme Nikita" (1997) starring Peta Wilson.
Anne had taken judo lessons for 3 months to prepare for this
part. Obviously director Luc Besson touched her heart, they had
a daughter together, but the couple separated shortly after "Nikita";
(in 1997, Besson was briefly married to Milla Jovovich, but they
divorced). Anne traveled to America to do several films, including
Innocent Blood (1992), in which she plays a French vampire. |
