French actress Sophie Marceau, Spanish actress Rossy de Palma, British actress Sienna Miller (American sniper), Malian musician Rokia Traoré, Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, Canadian director Xavier Dolan, and actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brobeback Mountain) will be members of the Jury of the 68th Film Festival chaired by American directors Joel and Ethan Coen. Nine personalities will be responsible for establishing the list and assigning the coveted Palme d'Or.

FESTIVAL JURY 2015: Five men and four women

Biographical summaries of the seven new jurors published by the Cannes Film Festival on its official website:

> Rossy de Palma (50 years): « An iconic figure in Spanish cinema and a muse by Pedro Almodóvar, who revealed it in 1986 with La Loi du désir, she shot with him Femmes on the brink of the nerve crisis, Attach me!, then Kika and La Fleur de mon secret for which she was named to the Goya, as well as a broken embrace, selected at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. His career began internationally with Robert Altman, Mike Figgis, Patrice Leconte and Mehdi Charef. She will find Pedro Almodóvar for her next film ».

> Sophie Marceau (48 years): « César at 16 years of best female hope for La Boum-2 by Claude Pinoteau, she established herself by alternating great popular successes and author films. It can be seen in Maurice Pialat's Police and the Braque Love of Andrzej Zulawski but also in Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995) and James Bond: The world is not enough (1999). With more than forty films Don't look back from Marina de Van, presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, she also wrote and directed two feature films, Tell Me Love (2002) and La Déparue de Deauville (2007). ».

> Sienna Miller (33 years): « As a film and theatre actress, she became known by Matthew Vaughn's Layer Cake (2004). She played Broadway in the cover of Sam Mendes' Cabaret. She shot in Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, presented in 2014 at the Cannes Film Festival, and in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper. She just finished shooting Ben Wheatley's High Rise ».

> Rokia Traoré (41 years): « Originally from Mali, the musician and singer Rokia Traoré makes a unique journey between tradition and modernity. Influenced by a nomadic childhood spent between Europe, the Middle East and Mali, this songwriter-songwriter-songwriter with a bewitching voice signs a particularly noteworthy first album, Mouneïssa (1998). With Wanita (2000), Bowmboi (2003), Chamantché (2008) and Beautiful Africa (2013), Rokia Traoré offers unheard-of instrument associations such as balafon, n的goni, electric guitar or drums. Multiplying artistic collaborations, she makes music her only continent ».

> Guillermo del Toro (50 years), not to be confused with actor Benicio del Toro: « Guillermo del Toro is one of the most inventive representatives of the new generation of Mexican filmmakers, alongside Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu. In his early make-up and special effects specialist, now based in the United States, he has signed a filmography rich in singular works with fantastic flamboyant universes, such as Mimic, The Devil's China, Blade-II or Hellboy. Guillermo del Toro presented Cronos, his first feature film, in Cannes in parallel section. Pan's Labyrinth was selected in Competition in 2006 ».

> Xavier Dolan (26 years): « After a first feature film, I killed my mother, shot at 20, he directed Les Amours imaginaires and Laurence Anyways presented at the Cannes Film Festival in Official Selection – Un Certain Regard, where they received an enthusiastic welcome. Then Tom at the farm is projected at the Venice Mostra, where he receives the FIPRESCI Prize. His latest film Mommy received the Jury Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival and the César of the best foreign film. Xavier Dolan is working on his next feature film, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan ».

> Jake Gyllenhaal (34 ans): « Élevé dans une famille d’artistes, Jake Gyllenhaal fait ses débuts au cinéma à 11 ans. Il est révélé au grand public en 2001 dans Donnie Darko de Richard Kelly et poursuit sa carrière entre films indépendants et blockbusters. Considéré comme l’une des valeurs montantes d’Hollywood, il tourne dans Jarhead de Sam Mendes, puis dans Le Secret de Brokeback Mountain d’Ang Lee (Lion d’or à Venise) et dans Zodiac de David Fincher, sélectionné au Festival de Cannes en 2007. Récemment, il a été à l’affiche de deux thrillers réalisés par Denis Villeneuve –Prisoners et Enemy– puis de Night Call de Dan Gilroy ».