Isabelle Adjani
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| Isabelle Adjani | |||||||||||
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| Born | Isabelle Yasmine Adjani June 27, 1955 Paris' 17th arrondissement |
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| Years active | 1970 - present | ||||||||||
| Domestic partner(s) | Bruno Nuytten Daniel Day-Lewis (1989-1994) Jean-Michel Jarre (2002-2004) |
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Isabelle Yasmine Adjani, (born June 27, 1955 in Paris' 17th arrondissement) is a four-time César Award-winning and two-time Academy Award-nominated French film actress and singer. She is of Algerian-German parentage,[1] and performs in her native French, English, and German. Adjani has a record four César Awards for Best Actress.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Adjani grew up in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine to an Algerian father from Constantine, Mohammed Adjani, and a German mother, Augusta Gusti. After winning a school recitation contest, she began acting in amateur theater by the age of twelve. As a fourteen-year-old, she appeared in her first motion picture.[citation needed]
[edit] 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)[citation needed]. The following year, she was cast in her first starring role in François Truffaut's The Story of Adele H. Critics enthused over her performance, with Pauline Kael calling her acting talents "Prodigious".[1] 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 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.
[edit] 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.[2] In 1987, some French media outlets incorrectly reported that she was dying of AIDS, forcing her to appear on television to deny it.[3]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1970 | Le Petit bougnat | Rose | |
| 1972 | Faustine et le bel été | Camille | |
| 1974 | La Gifle | Isabelle Doulean | |
| 1975 | L'Histoire d'Adèle H. | Adèle Hugo | Best Actress Oscar nomination |
| 1976 | Le Locataire | Stella | |
| Barocco | Laure | ||
| 1977 | Violette & François | Violette Clot | |
| 1978 | The Driver | The Player | |
| 1979 | Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | Lucy Harker | |
| Les Soeurs Brontë | Emily Brontë | ||
| 1981 | Clara et les Chics Types | Clara | |
| Possession | Anna/Helen | ||
| Quartet | Marya Zelli | ||
| 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' | |
| L' Été meurtrier | Eliane dite 'Elle' | ||
| 1985 | Subway | Héléna | |
| 1986 | T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais | ||
| 1987 | Ishtar | Shirra Assel | |
| 1988 | Camille Claudel | Camille Claudel | Best Actress Oscar nomination |
| 1993 | Toxic Affair | Pénélope | |
| 1994 | La Reine Margot | Margot | |
| 1996 | Diabolique | Mia Baran | |
| 2002 | La Repentie | Charlotte/Leïla | |
| Adolphe | Ellénore | ||
| 2003 | Bon voyage | Viviane Denvers | |
| Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran | La star |
[edit] Discography
- Pull marine (1983; produced and written by Serge Gainsbourg)
[edit] References
- ^ Isabelle Adjani at the Notable Names Database
- ^ Watson, Shane. "The dumping game", TimesOnline, The Times, 2004-08-15. Retrieved on 2007-06-19.
- ^ "Film star Adjani goes on French TV to dispel health rumors", St Petersburg Times (Florida), 1987-01-20. Retrieved on 2007-06-19.
[edit] External links
- Isabelle Adjani at the Internet Movie Database
- Official site (French)
- A Tribute to Gainsbourg, Isabelle Adjani interprète
- personal page
