Emmanuelle Béart is a French actress. As a teenager, she relocated to Montreal where she became an au pair and completed her education at Collège International Marie de France. There, she met director Robert Altman who encouraged her to pursue acting. She later returned to France to do just that. Béart has appeared in films such as Manon des Sources, La Belle Noiseuse alongside Jane Birkin, Mission: Impossible with Tom Cruise, Replay, and My Mistress.