For starring in the romantic film Chocolat , Binoche received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Binoche has appeared on stage intermittently, most notably in a London production of Luigi Pirandello 's Naked and in a production of Harold Pinter 's Betrayal on Broadway for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. In , she began a world tour with a modern dance production in-i devised in collaboration with Akram Khan.
Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique Yvette Stalens born , a teacher, director, and actress. When Binoche's parents divorced in , four-year-old Juliette and her sister Marion were sent to a provincial boarding school. Binoche has stated that this perceived parental abandonment had a profound effect on her. She was not particularly academic [ 13 ] and in her teenage years began acting at school in amateur stage productions.
Her role required just two days on-set, but was enough to inspire Binoche to pursue a career in film. Binoche's early films established her as a French star of some renown. This film was to set the tone of her early career. Adieu Blaireau failed to have much impact with critics or audiences. She was cast at short notice when Sandrine Bonnaire had to abandon the film due to a scheduling conflict.
The film was a sensation and Binoche became the darling of the festival. However it is her collaboration with theater director Scrutzler, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant , which comes to define Nina. This film was a critical and commercial failure. Mauvais Sang is an avant-garde thriller in which she plays Anna the vastly younger lover of Marc Piccoli who falls in love with Alex Denis Lavant , a young thief.
Binoche has stated that at the time her English was very limited and that she relied on a French translation to fully grasp her role. In the film Binoche portrays an artist who lives rough on the famous Parisian bridge where she meets another young vagrant Denis Lavant. This iconic part of the city becomes the backdrop for a wildly passionate love story and some of the most visually arresting images of the city ever created.
