Anne Parillaud is a French actress. She is married to Jean Michel Jarre. She has a daughter with ex-husband Luc Besson, Juliette, born in 1987 and 2 sons, Lou & Theo with film producer Mark Allan.
She is best known for her role as Nikita in the movie of the same name.
Biography
A native Parisian and still a resident there, Parillaud was born May 6, 1960. While in school she studied ballet and her ambition was to become a lawyer, but a role during summer vacation - when she was only 16 - in Michel Lang's L'h?tel de la plage launched her into the world of film.
She is rather guarded regarding her private life and biographical details, preferring in her interviews to expound on metaphysical, as opposed to personal, questions. She believes her life outside of films - where she likes "dancing, talking with friends, things like that" - is prosaic: "Me, I don't like myself much. I'm not interesting. The pleasure for me is in the abandonment of myself. As an actress I want to give everything I can. That is my pleasure." Additionally, she claims, "Fun' is not in my vocabulary. I have a problem being light, saying 'That's okay, that's fine.' I mean, no. It has to be always strong, always extreme, always passionate. And fun, it's nowhere. It's like 'cool'. I have no idea what that means because I am not someone 'cool'. I'm someone who tries to live by impulse first, and not by brain. If the extension of fun is being crazy, I like it. To break the rules, to let in crazy thoughts. But there has to be that extension."
Her willingness and even impulse to "break the rules, to let in crazy thoughts" has often kept the French tabloid press in a lather, as during her past romantic liaisons with Alain Delon and Luc Besson. She and Besson have a daughter, but the couple separated shortly after he directed her in Nikita.
Nikita was an especially intense experience for Parillaud: "For a while she was in me like a demon
