Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet: how did they meet?

They form one of the most emblematic couples in French cinema today. From a decade, Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet slip away discreetly the perfect love. As accomplices on the screen as in life, they are parents of two young children, Louise and Marcel. But, long before falling in love, they were first long friendsfor ten years. They first met in 1997. At that time, everyone is already in a relationship. The actress, then aged 21, lives a story with the son of Claude Berry, Julien Rassam. Affected by depression, he will end up throwing himself out of the window of their apartment, in 2000, under the eyes of Marion Cotillard. He becomes quadriplegic before suicide two years later. For his part, Guillaume Canet is 23 years old when he meets the future mother of his children. However, in 1999, he began a romance with Diane Krugerwhom he married in 2001.

In 2002, the two actors will be reunited on the set of the film Child games (released in 2003). They hardly know each other then. It is the first time that they give the reply to the cinema. From this moment will be born a sincere friendship and a beautiful complicity between them, but nothing more. Guillaume Canet will eventually divorce Diane Kruger in 2006. Marion Cotillard, she attended the singer Sinclair after the death of Julien Rassam. It was only in 2007 that the couple formalized their relationshipten years after their meeting. A year all the more symbolic for them that Guillaume Canet receives the César for best director for the thriller Do not tell anyone while Marion Cotillard is enjoying dazzling success thanks to her role in the biopic The kid (which will earn her the Oscar for best actress the following year).

Professional projects, children… Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet are inseparable

The two lovebirds will then chain the professional collaborations. In 2009, they shared the movie poster Last flight. Guillaume Canet, under his director’s cap, then turns his companion in the films The Little Handkerchiefs in 2010, Blood Ties in 2013, Rock’n’roll in 2017 then We’ll end up together in 2019. Fifteen years after the start of their romantic relationship, the two actors still seem so united and complicit. Although they never married, the couple welcomed their first child in May 2011, a boy named marcelbefore giving birth to a baby girl, Louisain March 2017. Very discreet about their private life, Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet have always been careful not to reveal the faces of their toddlers.