Marion Cotillard gives birth to son

Los Angeles: Academy award winning actress Marion Cotillard has become a mother after giving birth to her first child, a son named Marcel.

The `Inception` star Marion Cotillard and her French actor-director partner Guillaume Canet welcomed their son on Thursday in a Paris hospital, reported People magazine online. "Mother and baby are fine. Marion is very happy," said the 35-year-old actress` representative. Cotillard and Canet, 38, first starred together in 2003`s `Love Me If You Dare` and began dating in 2007. Though Cotillard, who won a best actress Oscar for her turn as singer Edith Piaf in `La Vie En Rose`, has been spotted wearing a diamond solitaire from Canet on her left hand, they have denied reports about an impending wedding. The actress who enjoyed a quiet and private pregnancy, will return to work soon for the upcoming Batman movie, `The Dark Knight Rises`, with Anne Hathaway and Christian Bale. Cotillard currently stars in Woody Allen`s `Midnight in Paris`, which kicked off this year`s Cannes Film Festival. She was most recently seen in `Little White Lies` which Canet directed. PTI