Mr Bean’s Holiday and Emma de Caunes

I just caught Mr. Bean’s Holiday and laughed my ass off for a solid 90-minutes. And, of course, then there was Mlle Emma de Caunes. Le sigh.

Emma de Caunes (born 9 September 1976) is a French film actress.

de Caunes is the daughter of French actor and director Antoine de Caunes, and of director and graphic designer Gaëlle Royer. She was married to French singer Sinclair (real name Mathieu Blanc-Francard) who fathered her daughter Nina (born Paris, October 2002).

de Caunes’s career began at the age of ten courtesy of of a role granted by Michèle Reiser, her godmother. She obtained her Baccalaureate in film in 1995. de Caunes appeared in various advertisements before landing her first major film role in Sylvie Verheyde’s Un Frère.

After her performance in the 1997 film Un frère, de Caunes won Most Promising Actress at the 1998 César awards and Best Actress at the 1997 Paris Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Actress in the Acteurs à l’Écran awards. She won the 2002 Prix Romy-Schneider, an award given annually to a promising young actress.

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