This radiantly appealing lead of international films first gained American audiences' attention as the sexually repressed Tereza in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1988), Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Milan Kundera's mediation on freedom, sex and love. The raven-haired Juliette Binoche provided the emotional center to that film, as she has with most of those in which she has appeared. Since winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1996 for "The English Patient", she has divided her time between stage and screen, working predominantly in English in the former medium and in her native
