This Friday night on France 5Marion Cotillard is to be found in the film Big Fish by Tim Burton. But in the Cotillard family, the love of the game doesn’t stop with Marion, despite being the main person associated with the name. Because his mother, Niseema Theillaud, is also an actress. She was trained by great actor directors and worked for a long time with her husband, Jean-Claude Cotillard, the father of Marion, from whom she has since divorced.
She has touched everything, whether in theater, cinema or television. On the boards, she played the texts of reputedly difficult directors such as Shakespeare or Nietzsche. On the small screen, she marked the spirits in the series More beautiful life, in which played during seasons 7 and 8 the character of Armande Tressere, owner of a shop on the Place du Mistral and mother of Eve. She is also known for her roles in hit series like Profiling, Munch and Gears or Lies.
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On the big screen, the 70-year-old actress also has great experiences. She notably starred in The Little Mouchosirs in 2010, a film directed by her son-in-law, Guillaume Canet, with whom Marion Cotillard is the mother of two children: Louise and Marcel. Niseema Theillaud also starred in The smell of us by the highly controversial Larry Clark and starred alongside Clovis Cornillac in The Adventure of the Marguerites. Not to mention his roles in 96 hours, love addict or When we cry wolf by Marilou Berry.
A great career, which notably inspired his daughter. “In Orléans, I went to boarding school. I didn’t like it very much, but I took my mother’s theater workshop. I never said to myself: ‘I want to be an actress’, everything was obvious”, confided Marion Cotillard to Figaro in 2015. “He is someone extremely important in my life and whom I adore. The bravest person I know, she has already said, speaking of her mother, referring in particular to the many traumas linked to her childhood.