Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet Split After 18 Years

The Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard and her partner Guillaume Canet revealed on Friday that they had ended their longtime relationship.

Cotillard, 49, and Canet, 52, had been in a relationship going back to 2004, but they announced in a terse statement that they were going their separate ways.

Although Cotillard has starred in numerous acclaimed French films, she has established herself as one of the country’s biggest international stars thanks to major roles in high-profile English-language films, including Christopher Nolan’s Inception and The Dark Knight Rises. 

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 2007 biopic La Vie en Rose, in which she portrayed the legendary French singer Édith Piaf. 

Cotillard — who walked the red carpet alone at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year — and Canet represented a star couple in France, where he is also an acclaimed actor, writer and director.

They announced that they had ended their relationship in a statement to the Agence France-Presse news agency in which they said they were publicly revealing their breakup ‘to avoid all speculation, rumors and risky interpretations.’

The Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard, 49, and her partner Guillaume Canet, 52, announced on Friday that they had ended their longtime relationship; seen in 2009 in Antibes, France

Cotillard, 49, and Canet, 52, had been in a relationship going back to 2004, but they announced in a terse statement that they were going their separate ways; pictured in 2020 in Paris