# Marina Hands

Marina Hands (born 10 January 1975) is a French stage and film actress. Hands is the daughter of British director Terry Hands and French actress Ludmila Mikaël, and the granddaughter of Ukrainian-Greek painter Pierre Dmitrienko [fr]. She studied acting at the Cours Florent and the CNSAD in France, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in England.

## Life and career

In 1999, she made her stage debut in Le Bel Air de Londres by Dion Boucicault, and was nominated for a Molière Award. Her first film was Andrzej Żuławski's La Fidélité (2000), followed by The Barbarian Invasions (2003). She then appeared in Les Âmes grises (2005), for which she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress, and Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One) (2006).
Her most notable performance to date was in the title role of Lady Chatterley (2006), an adaptation of John Thomas and Lady Jane by D. H. Lawrence. Hands won the 2007 César Award for Best Actress for her performance.
In 2006, Hands became a company member of the Comédie-Française. In 2008, she was again nominated for a Molière Award for her play in Partage de midi.
In 2011, she starred in Claude Miller's film Voyez comme ils dansent.
In 2019, she played Elvira in the TV series Mythomaniac.

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
| 1996 | Gertrud | Hjalmar Söderberg | Gérard Desarthe | |
| 1997 | Tales from the Vienna Woods | Ödön von Horváth | John Bashford | |
| 1997 | The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | Penny Cherns | |
| 1998 | London Assurance | Dion Boucicault | Adrian Brine | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Female Newcomer |
| 1998 | The Giants of the Mountain | Luigi Pirandello | Klaus Michael Grüber | |
| 1999 | Fräulein Else | Arthur Schnitzler | Didier Long | |
| 2001 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | Jacques Weber | |
| 2003 | Phèdre | Jean Racine | Patrice Chéreau | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Molière Award for Best Female Newcomer |
| 2004 | Richard II | William Shakespeare | Thierry de Peretti | |
| 2006 | Tête d'or | Paul Claudel | Anne Delbée | |
| 2007 | Partage de midi | Paul Claudel | Yves Beaunesne | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Actress |
| 2007 | The Misanthrope | Molière | Lukas Hemleb | |
| 2009 | Mary Stuart | Friedrich Schiller | Terry Hands | |
| 2009 | Partage de midi | Paul Claudel | Yves Beaunesne (2) | |
| 2013 | Lucrezia Borgia | Victor Hugo | Lucie Berelowitsch | |
| 2013 | Iphigenia in Tauris | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Clément Hervieu-Léger | |
| 2015 | Ivanov | Anton Chekhov | Luc Bondy | |

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1996 | Sans regrets | The woman | Guillaume Canet | Short |
| 2000 | Fidelity | Julia | Andrzej Żuławski | |
| 2001 | Un pique-nique chez Osiris | Héloïse Ancelin | Nina Companeez | TV movie |
| 2002 | Sur le bout des doigts | Juliette | Yves Angelo | |
| 2003 | The Barbarian Invasions | Gaëlle | Denys Arcand | |
| 2003 | À la fenêtre | The girl | Marianne Østengen | Short |
| 2003 | Phèdre | Aricie | Stéphane Metge | TV movie |
| 2004 | Mon homme | Marie | Stéphanie Tchou-Cotta | Short |
| 2005 | Grey Souls | Lysia Verhareine | Yves Angelo (2) | Nominated – César Award for Most Promising Actress |
| 2006 | Lady Chatterley | Constance Chatterley | Pascale Ferran | César Award for Best Actress Lumières Award for Best Actress Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best Actress Nominated – César Award for Most Promising Actress Nominated – Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actress Nominated – International Cinephile Society Award for Best Actress Nominated – Village Voice Film Poll – Best Actress Nominated – Étoiles d'Or for Best Female Newcomer |
| 2006 | Tell No One | Anne Beck | Guillaume Canet (2) | |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Joséphine | Julian Schnabel | Nominated – International Cinephile Society Award for Best Ensemble |
| 2007 | Le temps d'un regard | Natalya | Ilan Flammer | |
| 2008 | Story of Jen | Sarah | François Rotger | |
| 2009 | Hidden Diary | Audrey | Julie Lopes-Curval | |
| 2009 | Change of Plans | Juliette | Danièle Thompson | |
| 2010 | An Ordinary Execution | Anna | Marc Dugain | |
| 2010 | Ensemble, nous allons vivre une très, très grande histoire d'amour... | Dorothée Duchamp | Pascal Thomas | |
| 2011 | See How They Dance | Lise Clément | Claude Miller | |
| 2011 | Sport de filles | Gracieuse | Patricia Mazuy | |
| 2011 | Pour Djamila | Gisèle Halimi | Caroline Huppert | TV movie Nominated – Monte-Carlo Television Festival – Best Performance by an Actress |
| 2011 | Partage de midi | Ysé | Claude Mouriéras | TV movie |
| 2013 | Jappeloup | Nadia | Christian Duguay | |
| 2014 | French Women | Inès | Audrey Dana | |
| 2014 | GHB: To Be or Not to Be | Gil / Henrietta / Fleur | Laetitia Masson | |
| 2014 | Les jours venus | Marie | Romain Goupil | |
| 2015 | Chic! | Hélène Birk | Jérôme Cornuau | |
| 2017 | Taboo | Countess Musgrove | Anders Engström | TV series |
| 2018 | Guy | Kris-Eva | Alex Lutz | |
| 2019 | Mythomaniac | Elvira | Fabrice Gobert | Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actress |