Bouquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her classical good looks won her a role as the Bond girlMelina Havelock in the 1981 movie For Your Eyes Only, but she also acted in a number of mainstream European films throughout the 1980s and continues to do so in France.
Bouquet was a model for Chanel in the 1980s–1990s.[1][2] She was the companion of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam with whom she had a son, Dimitri Rassam, also a producer.[3][4] In 1987, she gave birth to a son, Louis, with photographer Francis Giacobetti. She married immunologist Jacques Liebowitch in 1992, they divorced in 1996.[5] From 1997 to 2005, she dated actor Gérard Depardieu, with whom she had worked several times. She is in a relationship with Philippe Sereys de Rothschild, the son of Philippine de Rothschild and Jacques Sereys. They made their first official appearance as a couple during the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.[6]
^Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West, London/New York: Routledge, 2005, ISBN 978-0-415-35182-9, p. 65: "the French face of Chanel in the late 1990s".
^Tilar J. Mazzeo, The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's most Famous Perfume, New York: Harper, 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-179101-7, p. 199: "Carole Bouquet, the 'face' of Chanel No. 5 during the 1980s".
^Costanzo Costantini, Le regine del cinema, Rome: Gremese, 1997, ISBN 978-88-7742-138-8, p. 39(Italian): "Carole Bouquet vive ora con Jean-Pierre Rassam, il produttore siriano o libanese che le ha dato sei mesi fa un figlio, Dimitry [Carole Bouquet now lives with Jean-Pierre Rassam, the Lebanese or Syrian producer, who gave her a son, Dimitri, six months ago]."
^Catherina Catsaros, Le grand livre des QCM de culture générale volume 2, Paris: l'Etudiant, 2008, ISBN 978-2-84624-604-0, p. 15(French): "Carole Bouquet dont le mari Jean-Pierre Rassam (décédé depuis) [Carole Bouquet, whose husband Jean-Pierre Rassam (since deceased)]".