French actresses Marion Cotillard, Juliette Binoche cut hair to protest Iranian woman’s death

France’s top actresses became the latest to cut their hair in protest following the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman accused of breaking her country’s dress code.

Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche are among the artists included in an Instagram video released Wednesday that shows participants cutting their hair for the cause.

“For freedom,” Binoche says in the video.

Amini died last month at age 22 after being arrested by Iran’s morality police for her alleged violation of the dress code rules. Protests involving people cutting their hair have since gone viral, stretching throughout Iran and beyond.

“These women, these men are asking for our support. Their courage and their dignity obliges us,” reads the Instagram post, which was shared by the account SOUTIEN FEMMES IRAN, or “Support Women in Iran.”

“We have decided to respond to the appeal made to us by cutting — us too — some of these locks.”

The post, which features dozens of women cutting their hair in the video, uses the hashtag #HairForFreedom.

The Paris-born Cotillard, 47, won a best actress Oscar in 2008 for “La Vie en Rose,” while the 58-year-old Binoche, who is also from Paris, won best supporting actress in 1996 for “The English Patient.”

With News Wire Services