Do you really know who Sandrine Bonnaire shared her life with? We take stock.
Sandrine Bonnaire, who has had a brilliant career since receiving the César for Most Promising Actress at just 15 years old for her role in To our loves by Maurice Pialat, is a relatively discreet woman when it comes to her love life. But the 57-year-old star has had several heart stories.
Sandrine Bonnaire: who did she share her life with?
His first publicized relationship caused quite a bit of discussion. And for good reason, at only 20 years old, Sandrine Bonnaire formalized her relationship with Jean-Yves Escoffier, a cinematographer 17 years her senior, with whom she stayed for four years. A few years later, she dated actor William Hurt, with whom she had her first daughter, Jeanne, in 1994. Although many thought they were married, the two lovebirds never were. Unfortunately, their romance ended in 1997.
At the same time, Sandrine Bonnaire met Guillaume Laurant, the screenwriter of Fabulous destiny of Amélie Poulain. Both got married in 2003 and welcomed a little girl, Adèle, in 2005. Here again, luck did not smile on the actress who saw her relationship fall apart in 2015, after fifteen years of marriage. Despite everything, the actress Without roof or law remained close to her daughter’s fathers. “I continue to love the men in my life”she confided to Paris Match.
Today, she shares her life with the famous jazz musician Erik Truffaz. They made their relationship official in 2019, during the Cabourg film festival, but the trumpeter and the actress met in 2012 during a musical reading by Marguerite Duras. If their relationship was exclusively professional for two years, they finally gave way to their feelings. “Erik, he’s my Little Prince. Like Saint-Exupéry’s character, he’s dreamy and mischievous. A goofball too”confided Sandrine Bonnaire, visibly smitten, in the columns of the Swiss magazine The Illustrated in 2023. To which his companion responded straight away: “Sandrine is my sun during the day and my moon at night”.
Sandrine Bonnaire victim of domestic violence: the day she broke the silence
In 2019, and for the very first time, Sandrine Bonnaire revealed that she had been violently attacked by one of her ex-companions, whose identity she never revealed. She would have shared his life for four years, but he would not have supported their breakup, which occurred in 2000. “He smashed my jaw, he broke 8 of my teeth and all the bones in my face are broken. Two years of probation is nothing. I continue to live with this pain because it’s not ‘is not repairable inside”she said on South Radio.
Acts of incredible violence that she agreed to detail in more detail in Catherine Ceylac’s book, To love to lifepublished in 2019. “And then, one evening, everything changed, I didn’t see anything coming. He strangled me, I passed out, and I woke up with a triple fracture of my jaw and eight broken teeth”she detailed.
