Born On: 9 August 1976 Place of Birth: Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France Height: 5' 3" (1.60 m)   Audrey is a French film actress, best known to worldwide audiences as the title character in the award-winning French film Amélie and as Sophie Neveu in The Da Vinci Code (2006).

Tautou was born in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France but was raised in Montluçon, Allier, Auvergne. Audrey showed an interest for comedy at an early age and started her acting lessons at 'Cours Florent'. In 1998, she participated in a Star Search-like competition sponsored by Canal+ called "Jeunes Premier" (The Young Debut) and won Best Young Actress at the 9th Béziers Festival of Young Actors. Then, she came to the attention of Tonie Marshall, who gave her a role in the César-winning Venus Beauty Institute (1999, aka Vénus beauté (institut)). In 2000, she won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as her country's most promising young film actress.

Already well-known in France for her work in Venus Beauty Insitute, in 2001 Tautou rose to international fame for her performance as the eccentric Amélie in the romantic French comedy of the same name.

In June 2004 she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). She accepted the invitation and was still a member as of September 1, 2006.

In 2005 Tautou worked in her first full Hollywood production, opposite Tom Hanks, in the film version of Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and released in May 2006.

She has said that Meryl Streep, Paul Newman, Juliette Lewis, Jodie Foster and Julianne Moore are her acting idols.

She has a younger brother and two younger sisters.