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Juliette Binoche (French pronunciation: ​[ʒyljɛt binɔʃ]; born 9 March 1964) is a French actress, artist and dancer.

Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique Yvette Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress.^[2] Her father, who is French, also has one eighth Portuguese-Brazilian ancestry; he was raised partly in Morocco by his French-born parents.^[3][4][5] Juliette's mother was born in Częstochowa, Poland.^[6] Binoche's maternal grandfather, Andre Stalens, was born in Poland, of Belgian (Walloon) and French descent, and Binoche's maternal grandmother, Julia Helena Młynarczyk, was of Polish origin.^[7] Both of them were actors who were born in Częstochowa; they were imprisoned at Auschwitz, because they were considered to be intellectuals by the German Nazi occupiers.

Binoche has two children: a son Raphaël (born on 2 September 1993), whose father is André Halle, a professional scuba diver, and a daughter Hana (born on 16 December 1999), whose father is actor Benoît Magimel, with whom Binoche starred in the 1999 film Children of the Century. Her sister, Marion Stalens, born 1960, is a professional photographer with Corbis, as well as a director of documentary films, including; La réconciliation?, a documentary shot on the set of John Boorman's film In My Country,^[18] The Actress and the Dancer, exploring the genesis of Binoche's dance show in-i^[149] and Juliette Binoche - Sketches for a Portrait a documentary which follows Binoche as she paints the portraits that would later appear in her book Portraits in Eyes.^[150]

Her half-brother Camille Humeau (born 1978) is an acclaimed musician and has been part of the line-up of Oncle Strongle,^[151][152] before top-lining the group Artichaut Orkestra.^[153] In 2007, he appeared in a stage production of Cabaret directed by Sam Mendes.^[50] Stage director Pierre Pradinas is married to her sister Marion.

Won

• 1986 – Prix Romy Schneider
• 1992 – European Film Award – Best Actress – Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
• 1993 – Berlin International Film Festival – Berlinale Camera^[167]
• 1993 – Venice Film Festival – Best Actress – Three Colors: Blue
• 1996 – National Board of Review – Best Supporting Actress – The English Patient
• 1997 – Berlin International Film Festival – Best Actress – The English Patient^[168]
• 1997 – European Film Award – Best Actress – The English Patient
• 1997 – Academy Award – Best Supporting Actress – The English Patient
• 2010 – Cannes Film Festival – Best Actress – Certified Copy
• 2010 – Kerry Film Festival – Maureen O'Hara Award^[169]
• 2010 – Cairo International Film Festival – Lifetime achievement^[170]
• 2013 – Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival – Best Actress – Camille Claudel 1915
• 2014 – Manaki Brothers Film Festival – Special Golden Camera 300 for contribution in world the Art of Cinema
• 2014 - Locarno International Film Festival - Excellence Award Moët & Chandon

Nominations

• 2001 – Screen Actors Guild Award – Best Actress – Chocolat
• 2001 – Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role – Chocolat
• 2001 – Screen Actors Guild Award – Outstanding Cast – Chocolat
• 2005 – European Film Award Best Actress; – Caché
• 2005 – London Critics Circle Film Awards – Best Actress – Caché
• 2006 – British Independent Film Award – Best Actress – Breaking & Entering