Audrey Tautou Chosen for the Da Vinci Code

According to Le Parisien, Tautou was selected among many candidates including Sophie Marceau, Juliette Binoche, Vanessa Paradis, Sandrine Bonnaire, Marion Cotillard, Judith Godrèche, Virginie Ledoyen, Elsa Zylberstein, Amira Casar, Anna Mouglalis, Julie Delpy and Linda Hardy.

Tautou will play the part of Sophie Neveu, French Cryptologist.  She will act with Tom Hanks, who plays a Harvard Professor, Robert Langdon, who is trying to crack the Da Vinci code in the Louvre in Paris.

The director, Ron Howard, who has done Apollo 13 and The Grinch, has confirmed that Jean Reno will play the part of Bézu Fache, the Chief of the French Police.

Audrey Taotou is known for her work in Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain and Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles.

This Howard film will be based on the book The Da Vinci Code, written by Dan Brown, that sold more than 16 million copies in more than 40 countries.

The filming will begin very soon for a world premiere on May 19, 2006.