Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet break up after 18 years

Oscar-winning La Vie en Rose actress Marion Cotillard’s two-decade relationship with fellow French cinema icon Guillaume Canet has ended, Entertainment Weekly has learned.

The Dark Knight Rises and Inception actress, 49, first began her partnership with 52-year-old Canet, perhaps best known to American audiences for his role in Danny Boyle’s 2000 drama The Beach, in 2007, with the pair remaining together for 18 years until their separation.

EW can confirm that the pair have split up, after a representative for the couple told French news organization Agence France-Press earlier Friday that the pair broke up “by mutual agreement.”

The couple never married, though they have two children together, including son Marcel and daughter Louise, born in 2011 and 2017, respectively.

Their breakup comes amid a slew of other celebrity splits, including Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom and Jessica Alba and Cash Warren.

Both icons of French cinema, Cotillard and Canet were considered to be one of the foremost power couples of the European entertainment industry.

Following her major cinema breakthrough in the 1998 film Taxi, Cotillard won her first of two César Awards (France’s equivalent to the Oscars) for the 2004 drama A Very Long Engagement. She’ won again for her leading performance in the 2007 Édith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose — the same role that won her an Oscar.

Amid roles in blockbusters like The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Nine, and Contagion, Cotillard earned another Oscar nomination for her performance in the 2014 international drama Two Days, One Night.

Canet has also amassed a lengthy filmography in French cinema, and won a César himself for directing the 2006 French movie Tell No One.

Together, Cotillard and Canet have made several projects, including 2003’s Love Me If You Dare, 2009’s The Last Flight, and the 2017 comedy Rock ‘N’ Roll.

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The pair reportedly filmed a 2026 thriller called Karma — also written and directed by Canet — in early 2025. EW has reached out to representatives for an update on the status of that project amid the pair’s breakup.

Prior to his relationship with Cotillard, Canet was married to actress Diane Kruger from 2001 to 2006.