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Full Name:Isabelle Adjani
Birth Name:Isabelle Yasmine Adjani
Famous As: Actress
Date of Birth: June 27, 1955
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Height: 5' 4?
Nationality: American
Relationships: Bruno Nuytten, Daniel Day-Lewis (an actor), Jean-Michel Jarre (a composer)
Son(s): Barnab? Nuytten, Gabriel-Kane (b. 1995)

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Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Born Isabelle Yasmine Adjani
27 June 1956 (1956-06-27) (age 53)
Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, France1
Occupation Actress, singer
Years active 1970–present
Domestic partner(s) Warren Beatty
(c.1986–1987)2
Daniel Day-Lewis
(c.1988–1994)
Bruno Nuytten
(no longer together)
Official website

Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born 27 June 1955) is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She won four César Awards in Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), and Queen Margot (1994). Also she received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She performs in French, English, and German.

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Early life

Adjani was born in an immigrant neighborhood Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris1 (some sources say Bavaria, Germany23) to an Algerian father, Mohammed Cherif Adjani, and a German mother, Augusta, called "Gusti". She grew up speaking German fluently as a first language.234 After winning a school recitation contest, she began acting in amateur theater by the age of twelve. At the age of 14, she starred in her first motion picture Le Petit bougnat (1970).

Career

She first gained fame as a classical actress for her interpretation of Agnès, the main female role in Molière's L'École des femmes, but soon left the Comédie française she had joined in 1972 to pursue a film career. After minor roles in several films, she enjoyed modest success in the 1974 film La Gifle (or The Slap). The following year, she landed her first major role in François Truffaut's The Story of Adèle H. Critics enthused over her performance, with Pauline Kael calling her acting talents "Prodigious".56 All this attention resulted in a nomination for the Best Actress Oscar and offers for rôles in Hollywood films, such as Walter Hill's 1978 crime thriller The Driver. She then played Lucy in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of Nosferatu (1979) .

In 1981, Adjani received the Cannes Film Festival's best actress award for the Merchant Ivory film Quartet based on the novel by Jean Rhys, and for the horror film Possession. The following year, she received her first César Award for Possession, in which she portrays a woman having a nervous breakdown. In 1983, she won the César, for her depiction of a vengeful woman in the blockbuster One Deadly Summer.

In 1989, she co-produced and starred in a biopic of the tragic sculptor Camille Claudel. She received her third César and second Oscar nomination for her role in the film, which was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Following this publicity, she was chosen by People magazine as one of the '50 Most Beautiful People' in the world. Her fourth César win was for the 1994 film Queen Margot, an ensemble epic directed by Patrice Chéreau.

Personal life

Adjani has two sons: Barnabé Nuytten with cinematographer Bruno Nuytten, and Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis from her six-year relationship with Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis. Gabriel-Kane was born in New York City in 1995, several months after her relationship with Day-Lewis ended.

Adjani was also engaged to composer Jean Michel Jarre, but they broke up publicly in 2004.7 She was also engaged to Dr Stéphane Delajoux, a surgeon, who operated Johnny Hallyday.

Adjani was also romantically linked to actor Warren Beatty from c.1986 to 1987.2

In 1987, some French media outlets incorrectly reported that Adjani was dying of AIDS, forcing her to appear on television to deny it.8

In 2009, she denounced statements by Pope Benedict XVI claiming that condoms are not an effective method of AIDS prevention, despite massive scientific evidence to the contrary.9

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1970 Le Petit bougnat Rose
1972 Faustine et le bel été Camille
1974 La Gifle Isabelle Doulean Special David di Donatello
1975 The Story of Adèle H. Adèle Hugo Cartagena Film Festival Golden India Catalina for Best Actress
David di Donatello for Best Actress
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — César Award for Best Actress
1976 The Tenant Stella
Barocco Laure Nominated — César Award for Best Actress
1977 Violette & François Violette Clot
1978 The Driver The Player
1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre Lucy Harker
The Bronte Sisters Emily Brontë
1981 Clara et les Chics Types Clara
Possession Anna/Helen Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award also for Quartet
César Award for Best Actress
Quartet Marya Zelli Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award also for Possession
L' Année prochaine... si tout va bien Isabelle
1982 Tout feu, tout flamme Pauline Valance
Antonieta Antonieta Rivas Mercado
1983 Mortelle randonnée Catherine Leiris/Lucie, 'Marie'
One Deadly Summer Eliane dite 'Elle' César Award for Best Actress
1985 Subway Héléna Nominated — César Award for Best Actress
1986 T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais
1987 Ishtar Shirra Assel
1988 Camille Claudel Camille Claudel César Award for Best Actress
Silver Bear for Best Actress
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
1993 Toxic Affair Pénélope
1994 Queen Margot Margot César Award for Best Actress
1996 Diabolique Mia Baran
2002 La Repentie Charlotte/Leïla
Adolphe Ellénore Cabourg Romantic Film Festival Award for Best Actress
2003 Bon voyage Viviane Denvers
Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran La star
2008 La journée de la jupe Sonia Bergerac
2010 Mammuth Entered into the 60th Berlin International Film Festival

Discography

References

Further reading

  • Adjani, Isabelle (1980). Isabelle Adjani in : Jean-Luc Douin (Hrsg.): Comédiennes aujourd'hui : au micro et sous le regard. Paris: Lherminier. ISBN 2-862-44 020-5
  • Austin, Guy (2003). Foreign bodies: Jean Seberg and Isabelle Adjani, S. 91-106 in: ders., Stars in Modern French Film. Londres: Arnold. ISBN 0-340-76 019-2
  • Austin, Guy (2006). Telling the truth can be a dangerous business : Isabelle Adjani, race and stardom, in : Remapping World Cinema : Identity, Culture and Politics in Film, herausgegeben von Stephanie Dennison und Song Hwee Lim, London: Wallflower Press. ISBN 1-904-76 462-2
  • Halberstadt, Michèle (2002). Adjani aux pieds nus - Journal de la repentie. Paris: Editions Calmann-Lévy. ISBN 2-702-13 293-6
  • Roques-Briscard, Christian (1987). La passion d'Adjani, Lausanne et al.: Favre. ISBN 2-828-90 279-X
  • Zurhorst, Meinolf (1992). Isabelle Adjani. Ihre Filme - Ihr Leben. Heyne Film- und Fernsehbibliothek, Band 163. München: Heyne. ISBN 3-453-05 238-2

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