Women of the World Movies - French Fancies Quiz

Answer: Audrey Tautou

Audrey has played many mesmerising roles in her career, probably most successfully in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2001 movie "Amélie", where she plays the sweet but mischievous character of the film's title, Amélie Poulain.
The film I was referring to in the question was, of course, the high grossing Tom Hanks vehicle "The Da Vinci Code".

Answer: Vanessa Paradis

Vanessa first came to the attention of the mainstream public when she was just 14 years old, achieving a European smash hit with the song "Joe le Taxi". She went on to work with Lenny Kravitz for a while, the pair of them briefly dating, and she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 1990 for her performance in Jean-Claude Brisseau's "Noce Blanche" before hooking up with Johnny Depp in 1998.

Answer: Roxane Mesquida

Born in 1981, Roxane was just 13 years old when she got her breakthrough, when film director Manuel Pradal discovered her walking along the road. Evidently they don't show those "Never talk to strangers" videos to schoolkids in France! Luckily for her, Pradal was genuine and she went on to star in a number of cult independent flicks in which she often made my eyes bulge out cartoon style.

Answer: Sophie Marceau

Throughout her illustrious career, Marceau has appeared in many high grossing movies, turned her hand to singing in 1986 with an album called "Centitude" and was even chosen as "Ambassador of Charm for France" in East Asia. Whatever that means.

Answer: True

Young Ms. Watson was born in Paris in April 1990 and was the initial choice to play the mischievous "Amélie" in the film of the same name. She dropped out, and I'm eternally grateful to her for that, because that gave me my first choice to witness the delectable Audrey Tautou's talents instead.

Answer: Emmanuelle Béart

Emmanuelle is the daughter of Egyptian born French singer and poet Guy Béart and the less well known actress Geneviève Galéa. She was brought up in a small, remote village amongst the mountains but left for Montreal when she was a teenager, where she met the late Robert Altman and nurtured her desire to act.

Answer: Virginie Ledoyen

Virginie was born in 1974 with the surname Fernandez, but adopted her grandmother's maiden name of Ledoyen as the elder woman had herself been a stage actress. Whilst she is best remembered for "The Beach", she was also the face of L'Oreal between 2000 and 2005.

Answer: Julie Delpy

Julie is the daughter of veteran acting couple Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet. Other than her film career, she has a love for music and released her own eponymously titled album in 2003.

Answer: Clémence Poésy

No doubt viewers will remember Poésy most for playing Fleur Delacour in the 2005 film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". She was born Clémence Guichard in November 1982 but opted to use her mother's maiden name as her stage name after choosing her career path at age 14.

Answer: Charlotte Gainsbourg

The single, of course, was "Je Taime...Moi Non Plus" by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, which topped the UK singles chart towards the end of 1969.

Charlotte has appeared in over 30 films throughout her career, amongst them the hugely successful "21 Grams", "The Cement Garden", "Jane Eyre" and the highly rated, bizarre 2006 fantasy movie "The Science of Sleep".

She also has the honour of being Yul Brynner's goddaughter.