ISABELLE ADJANI

'Isabelle Yasmine Adjani' (born June 27, 1955 in Paris' 17th arrondissement) is a César Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated French film actress. She is of German-Algerian parentage, and performs in her native French, English, and German. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actress and was awarded the César award four times.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Filmography

References

Discography

External links

Biography

Early life

Adjani grew up in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine to Mohammed Adjani and a German Augusta Gusti. She was drawn to acting at a young age, playing in amateur theater by the age of twelve. As a fourteen-year-old, she appeared in her first motion picture.

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 movie career. After minor roles in several films, she received positive reviews and much public acclaim for her performance in the 1974 film ''La Gifle'' (or ''The Slap''). The following year, she was cast in her first starring role in François Truffaut's ''The Story of Adele H.'' which resulted in a nomination for the Best Actress Oscar and offers for rôles in Hollywood films.
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 frustrated woman going mad. In 1983, she won the César, for her depiction of a vengeful woman in the French blockbuster ''One Deadly Summer''.
In 1989, she co-produced and starred in a biopic of the tragic French 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 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 French composer Jean Michel Jarre, but they broke up publicly in 2004. The dumping game Shane Watson In 1987, some French media outlets incorrectly reported that she was dying of AIDS, forcing her to appear on television to deny it. Film star Adjani goes on French TV to dispel health rumors

Filmography

Main Filmography

The Story of Adele H. (''1975'') | Barocco (''1976'') | The Tenant (''1976'') | The Driver (''1978'')  | (''1979'') | The Bronte Sisters (''1979'') | Quartet (''1981'') | Possession (''1981'')  | Antonieta (''1982'') | One Deadly Summer (''1983'') | Subway (''1985'') | Ishtar (''1987'') | Camille Claudel (''1987'') | Queen Margot (''1994'') | Diabolique (''1996'') | Adolphe (''2002'') | Bon Voyage (''2003'')

References

Discography

★ Pull marine (1983, Philips) produced & written by Serge Gainsbourg

External links

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★ Official site (in French)

★ A Tribute to Gainsbourg, Isabelle Adjani interprète

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★ personal page