Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. She has appeared in more than eighty motion pictures since 1976. Ardant won the Csar Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her performance in Pdale douce.
Ardant was born in Saumur MaineetLoire, France, to a military attach father. She grew up in Monaco until agewhen she moved to AixenProvence to study at the Institut dtudes politiques dAixenProvence. In her early twenties her interest turned to acting and in 1974 she made her first appearance on stage.
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