Marie-Josée Croze
- Actress
Marie-Josée Croze first studied fine arts before opting for the stage
at La Veillée-Prospero Theatre workshop in Montreal. In 1993 she got
her first movie part in
La Florida (1993) and started working
for numerous Canadian TV series and movies.
In 2000, with her performance in Denis Villeneuve's
Maelstrom (2000) she got national
(Jutra and Genie best actress awards) and international recognition,
and began shooting with some of the most acclaimed Canadian directors:
Atom Egoyan for Ararat (2002) and Denys Arcand for
The Barbarian Invasions (2003),
for which she got the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival in
2003.
After the Cannes award many French directors used her incredible
versatility: she played a mysterious and glamorous movie star in
Ordo (2004), adapted from
Donald E. Westlake's novel, a single
mother overwhelmed by her responsibilities in Jean-Pierre Denis' drama
La petite Chartreuse (2005),
a down-to-earth architect in the romantic comedy
The Story of My Life (2004).
Chosen by Steven Spielberg to play the
seductive Dutch assassin in Munich (2005),
Marie-Josée Croze associated with high profile projects. She played the mother of the young and rebellious peasant from
Eugène Le Roy's novel in the historical drama
Jacquou le croquant (2007), and Dr. Beck's murdered wife in
Tell No One (2006),
the French adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel.
at La Veillée-Prospero Theatre workshop in Montreal. In 1993 she got
her first movie part in
La Florida (1993) and started working
for numerous Canadian TV series and movies.
In 2000, with her performance in Denis Villeneuve's
Maelstrom (2000) she got national
(Jutra and Genie best actress awards) and international recognition,
and began shooting with some of the most acclaimed Canadian directors:
Atom Egoyan for Ararat (2002) and Denys Arcand for
The Barbarian Invasions (2003),
for which she got the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival in
2003.
After the Cannes award many French directors used her incredible
versatility: she played a mysterious and glamorous movie star in
Ordo (2004), adapted from
Donald E. Westlake's novel, a single
mother overwhelmed by her responsibilities in Jean-Pierre Denis' drama
La petite Chartreuse (2005),
a down-to-earth architect in the romantic comedy
The Story of My Life (2004).
Chosen by Steven Spielberg to play the
seductive Dutch assassin in Munich (2005),
Marie-Josée Croze associated with high profile projects. She played the mother of the young and rebellious peasant from
Eugène Le Roy's novel in the historical drama
Jacquou le croquant (2007), and Dr. Beck's murdered wife in
Tell No One (2006),
the French adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel.