Sophie Marceau net worth
Sophie Marceau Net Worth: Sophie Marceau is a French actress, director, screenwriter and author who has a net worth of $50 million. Sophie Marceau starred in 39 films throughout her career. As a teenager, Marceau was a hit with her debut films “La Boum” and “La Boum 2” and won a Cesar Award for Most Promising Actress.
Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu was born on November 17, 1966 in Paris, the second child of shop assistant Simone (née Morisset) and truck driver Benoît Maupu. Her parents divorced when she was very young. In February 1980, Marceau and her mother stumbled across a modeling agency looking for teens, where she had been photographed, but didn’t expect anything to turn out. Meanwhile, La Boum’s casting director, Françoise Menidrey, asked the modeling agency to recommend a new teenager for the project. Gaumont Films director Alain Poiré signed a long-term contract with Marceau after seeing the rushes. La Boum is a hit movie that not only sold 4,378,500 tickets in France, but also in several other European countries. Marceau gained international recognition in 1995 as Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart. That year, she also participated in the international cast of the French film “Above the Clouds”. In recent years, Marceau has continued to appear in various roles, mainly in French films. In 2008, Marceau played a member of the French Resistance in “The Female Agent” and a struggling single mother in “Lol.” In 2012, Marceau played a career woman in her forties who fell in love with a young jazz musician in “Happy Never Alone.” In 2013, she appeared in Arrêtez-moi (Stop Me) as a woman at a police station and confessed to murdering her abusive husband years after his death.
From 1985 to 2001, Marceau was in a relationship with director Andrzej Żuławski, who was 26 years her senior. Their son Vincent was born in June 1995. In 2001, Marceau separated from Żuławski and began a relationship with producer Jim Lemley. Her second child, Juliet, was born in London in 2002. She has been in a relationship with Christopher Lambert since 2007, with whom she starred in the films Trivia and Cartagena.
