'Annette' Full Cast List: Meet Marion Cotillard, Adam Driver and other stars of musical drama

'Annette' tells the compelling story of a couple in love and how their lives change with the birth of a child
UPDATED AUG 18, 2021
Marion Cotillard as seen in 'Annette' (Youtube/Amazon Prime Video)
Marion Cotillard as seen in 'Annette' (Youtube/Amazon Prime Video)

Having premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2021, you can now watch 'Annette', a musical drama that is filled with romance and mystery.

Starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, 'Annette' tells the story of a couple whose life gets flipped upside down after the birth of their first child. If you're looking for similar titles to check out, you might want to check out 'Resort to Love' and 'Good On Paper'.

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Cast

Adam Driver

Adam Douglas Driver is an actor, model and Broadway star. He made his Broadway debut with 'Mrs. Warren's Profession' and later starred in 'Man and Boy'. His big role came when he starred in the series 'Girls' for which he received three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations. 

On November 19, 1983, he was born in San Diego, California, to Nancy Wright, a paralegal, and Joe Douglas Driver. He moved to Mishawaka, Indiana. his mother's hometown at the age of seven and attended the Mishawaka High School. Growing up, he sang in the church choir. After graduating, Driver worked a range of jobs, such as selling Kirby vacuum cleaners and being a telemarketer for a basement waterproofing company and Ben Franklin Construction.

Driver later enlisted in the United States Marine Corps where he served for two years and eight months. He fractured his sternum while mountain biking, right before his unit was shipped to Iraq and was medically discharged with the rank of Lance Corporal. He attended the University of Indianapolis for a year and then auditioned again for Juilliard School again, having been rejected once before. He succeeded the second time around and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He has also worked on movies such as 'Lincoln', 'Frances Ha 'Inside Llewyn Davis', 'Silence' and 'Paterson'. He currently plays Kylo Ren in the latest 'Star Wars' sequel trilogy. 

Adam Driver attends the "Annette" screening and opening ceremony during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 06, 2021 in Cannes, France.

Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard is a French actress and musician who has won multiple awards, such as an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, two César Awards, a European Award, and a Lumières Award. She is also a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France and was promoted to Officer in 2016.

On September 30, 1975, she was born in Paris to Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, teacher, former mime, and theatre director and Monique Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. She began acting at a rather young age, starring initially in her father's plays. Cotillard entered the Conservatoire d'art dramatique in Orléans at the age of 15 and moved Pars after her graduation in order to pursue an acting career. 

Her works include 'Chanel N°5: Dancing on the Moon', 'Dolittle', 'Nous finirons ensemble', 'Angel Face', 'Ismael's Ghosts', 'Rock'n Roll', 'Assassin's Creed', 'Allied', 'It's Only the End of the World', 'From the Land of the Moon', 'Nature Is Speaking', 'April and the Extraordinary World', 'Macbeth and 'The Little Prince'.

Marion Cotillard attends the opening ceremony gala dinner of the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Simon Helberg

Simon Maxwell Helberg is an actor, comedian, and musician best known for his role as Howard Wolowitz in the CBS sitcom 'The Big Bang Theory' and even won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the same. He was born on December 9, 1980, in Los Angeles, to actor Sandy Helberg and casting director Harriet Helberg.

Helberg attended Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California. Actor and producer Jason Ritter also attended the same school and the two later became roommates when Helberg attended New York University. At NYU, Helberg attended the Tisch School of the Arts, and trained at the Atlantic Theater Company. His other works include 'Thanks Nurses', 'End of the Line', 'Paint It Black', 'Florence Foster Jenkins'. 'Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness', 'Hollywood Adventures', 'The Tom and Jerry Show', 'We'll Never Have Paris' and 'Drunk History'. 

Actor Simon Helberg arrives at The Paley Center For Media's 33rd Annual PALEYFEST Los Angeles 'The Big Bang Theory' at Dolby Theatre on March 16, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

'Annette' premieres on August 20, 2021, on Amazon Video. 

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