Personal info
Known for
Actor
Gender
Female
Birthday
18 August
Location
Hauts-de-France, France
Edit pageCarole Bouquet
Biography
Carole Bouquet (born 18 August 1957) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 60 films since 1977. In 1990, she was awarded the César Award for Best Actress for her role in Too Beautiful for You.
Bouquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She made her film acting debut in Luis Buñuel's surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). Bouquet portrayed the Bond girl, Melina Havelock, opposite Roger Moore in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.
She received a César Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Rive Droite, Rive Gauche (1984), and won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Beautiful For You (1989).
In the 1980s, she was a model for the French luxury fashion label Chanel, being the face of Chanel No. 5. She was the face of Chanel No. 5 fragrance from 1986 to 1997.
She was the companion of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam, with whom she had a son, Dimitri Rassam, also a producer. In 1987, she gave birth to a son, Louis, with photographer Francis Giacobetti. She married immunologist Jacques Leibowitch in 1992; they divorced in 1996.
In 1999, she was a jury member of the 4th Shanghai International Film Festival.
She was a member of the main competition jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
On 21 May 2014, Bouquet formalized her relationship with Philippe Sereys de Rothschild on the red carpet of the 37th Festival de Cannes, of which she was one of the jury members.
She has been running a winery, Maison Carole Bouquet, on the island of Pantelleria in the Strait of Sicily since 2005.
