Born to Paris, Marion Cotillard studied acting at the Conservatoire d´Art Dramatique in Orléans and was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contribution to the enrichment of French culture. Winner of the Academy Award®, she is internationally recognized for her extraordinary commitment to her art and to the interpretation of each new role. This year she attended the Cannes Film Festival as the star of the film_ Gueule d´Ange_ by Vanessa Filho, selected for the "Un Certain Regard" category. His recent filmography includes Nicole Garcia´s film Mal di pietre based on the international bestselling novel by Milena Agus, Arnaud Desplechin´s _The Ghosts of Ishmael_, Xavier Dolan´s It´s Only the End of the World, and Guillaume Canet´s Rock´n Roll. He also starred in Assassin´s Creed, a sci-fi action film based on the video game series of the same name. For this film he collaborated with director Justin Kurzel and Michael Fassbender with whom he had already worked on the film adaptation of Macbeth. He also starred opposite Brad Pitt in Robert Zemeckis´ Allied - A Hidden Shadow. In 2015, she earned an Oscar® nomination for Best Actress in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne´s _Two Days, One Night,_ for her portrayal of Sandra, a mother who discovers that her co-workers have offered other employees a substantial bonus in exchange for her dismissal. Even earlier, Cotillard starred in Jacques Audiard's A Taste of Rust and Bone alongside to Matthias Schoenaerts, Bouli Lanners and Céline Sallette. A highly successful performance for which she won numerous awards, including Best Actress BAFTA, Golden Globe, César Award, and Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice Award nominations. In 2008, Marion Cotillard becomes the second to French actress to win an Oscar®, and the first to to win an award for a French-language performance. Worldwide critical acclaim comes for her fascinating portrayal of the legendary French singer, Edith Piaf, from she rendered in the film La Vie En Rose. For this role, Cotillard also received BAFTA, Golden Globe, and César awards for best actress and a Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice Award nomination. In addition, she has been named best actress by film critic associations around the world, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the London Film Critics Circle. Cotillard's credits include: the successful French film series Taxi, written from Luc Besson; Yann Samuell's _Amami se hai coraggio _; and Tim Burton's Big Fish. She won her first César Award for best supporting actress for her performance in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Long Sunday of Passions. She later starred in Ridley Scott's A Very Good Year , Michael Mann's Public Enemy, and Rob Marshall's Nine, a film adaptation of the famous musical. For her performance in that film she earned Golden Globe and Critics ´Choice Award nominations, and she also shared a SAG Award® nomination for Best Motion Picture Cast. Other titles also include: Christopher Nolan´s Inception; Woody Allen´s Midnight in Paris, which garnered Academy Award®, Golden Globe and SAG Award® nominations for Best Picture; Steven Soderbergh´s Contagion; Christopher Nolan´s _The Dark Knight - The Return; _Small Lies Among Friends _by Guillaume Canet; _Once Upon a Time to New York _by James Gray, which earned her a Best Actress nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards; Blood Ties - The Law of Blood by Guillaume Canet; and _Macbeth _by Justin Kurzel.

He is considered one of the most intense and intellectually sophisticated orchestra conductors of his generation. He is founder and Music Director of "Le Cercle de l'Harmonie," an orchestra with original instruments, with which he explores the repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries. He has carved a deep furrow in the interpretation of Mozart's works, and the same approach has been the key to his success as an interpreter of 20th-century music: his production of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carnelitanas directed by Olivier Py at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées won him the Grand Prix du Syndicat de la Critique in 2014, while the DVD version was awarded a BBC Music Magazine Award in 2016. Jérémie Rhorer regularly conducts top European orchestras as well as being a regular guest at major international festivals such as Glyndebourne, Edinburgh, the BBC Proms, the Aix-en-Provence International Festival, and the Salzburg Whitsun Festival. A composition pupil of Thierry Escaich, Jérémie Rhorer has an important activity as a composer that has earned him the Pierre Cardin Prize. During the 2017/18 season he conducted a new production of _Il barbiere di Siviglia _at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées directed by Laurent Pelly and debuted with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Czech Philharmonic, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. In March 2018 he made his Italian debut with Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Since 2010 he has been the Choirmaster ofAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and since 2011 he has also assumed the position of Director in charge of the Children's Voices. He graduated from the Naples Conservatory of Music in Pianoforte, Singing, Choral Music and Choral Conducting. He also studied Composition and took conducting courses atAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. From 1997 to 2000 he was active at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia alongside to Norbert Balatsch, and later as choirmaster in numerous productions collaborating with, among others, conductors and composers such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Myung-Whun Chung, Jeffrey Tate, Roberto Abbado, Yutaka Sado and Ennio Morricone. During the past seasons he has prepared the Santa Cecilia Choir for concerts in prestigious European venues: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Brahms' German Requiem), Proms in London( Rossini'sGuillaume Tell, Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces ), Salzburg Festival (_War Requiem _by Britten, Rossini's Stabat Mater and Petite messe solennelle ). Ciro Visco has been choirmaster at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro San Carlo in Naples and to Radio France. He has recently taken part in the many award-winning recordings made by the Orchestra and Chorus ofAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia together with conductor Antonio Pappano. In December 2015 he was elected Academician of Santa Cecilia.