Name	Nathalie Baye
Height
Naionality	Franch
Date of Birth	6-July-1948
Place of Birth	Mainneville, Eure, France
Famous for	Acting

Nathalie Baye is a French film, television, and stage actress. After having dance and dramatic education, Baye began acting in 1970. She has appeared in more than 70 films. She won four César Awards for Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980), Une étrange affaire (1981), La Balance (1982), and Le Petit Lieutenant (2005). She has been nominated a further five times.

Her second cinema appearance was in Two People (1973) directed by Robert Wise. She became more widely known as the script girl in La Nuit americaine (Day for Night) by François Truffaut. Throughout the 1970s she played the good girlfriend or nice provincial girl in film and television. In 1981 she won her first Cesar, for best supporting artist in Sauve qui peut (la vie) by Jean-Luc Godard. There then followed Le Retour de Martin Guerre and La Balance. She won two more Cesars (Best Supporting Female for Une etrange affaire (A Strange Affair), and Best Actress in 1982 for La Balance).

Her four-year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a celebrity couple and their daughter Laura is now actress Laura Smet. After changing image by playing a streetwalker in La Balance, she widened her scope with more obscure characters in J'ai epouse une ombre and En toute innocence. In 1986 she returned to the theatre with an interpretation of Adriana Monti. In 1999 she was voted Best Supporting Actress at Venice Film Festival for Une liaison pornographique and in 2000 starred in the award-winning film Venus Beaute (Institut) by Tonie Marshall. She has worked with Claude Chabrol and Steven Spielberg.