Isabelle Adjani

At 68 years old, Isabelle Adjani has this physical status:

Isabelle Yasmina Adjani (born 27 June 1955) is a French film actress and singer.

Camille Claudel (1989), One Deadly Summer (1983), and Skirt Day (2009). She is the only actress or comedian in history to win five César Awards; she is the only actress or actor to win five César Awards;

In 2010, she was appointed a Chevalier of Honour in 2010 and as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2014. Adèle Hugo's appearance in the 1975 film The Story of Adele H. earned her the first of two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress.

Camille Claudel's second nomination — making her the first French actress to receive two awards for foreign-language films.

She was named Best Actress at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival for her appearances in Possession and Quartet, and then she received the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 1989 Berlin Film Festival for Camille Claudel.

The Tenant (1976), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Subway (1985), and French Women (2014) were among her notable film appearances.

Early life and education

Isabelle Yasmina Adjani was born in Paris's 17th arrondissement, to Mohammed Cherif Adjani, an Algerian Kabyle from Constantine, and Emma Augusta "Gusti" Schweinberger, a German Catholic from Bavaria.

Adjani's parents met near the end of World War II when her father was in the French Army. Despite not knowing a word of French, they married and his mother returned with him to Paris. She begged him to use Cherif as his first name because it seemed more "American" to her.

Isabelle grew up bilingual in Gennevilliers, a northwestern suburb of Paris, where her father worked in a garage. Adjani began acting in amateur theater at the age of 12. In 1976, she graduated from baccalauréat and was teaching auditing at the University of Vincennes.

Adjani had a younger brother, Éric, who was a photographer. He died on December 25, 2010, at the age of 53.

Personal life

Adjani's son, Barnabé Sad-Nuytten, was born in 1979 and she and the cinematographer Bruno Nuytten, whom she later hired to direct her project Camille Claudel, a tribute to Rodin's lover.

She lived with Daniel Day-Lewis from 1989 to 1995, which culminated in their son's birth, Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis, in 1995.

Adjani and composer Jean-Michel Jarre married later in 2004; they split up in 2004.

In France, Adjani has spoken out against anti-immigration and anti-Algerian sentiments. She condemned Pope Benedict XVI's words in 2009, who said that condoms are not a cost-effective method of AIDS prevention.

She signed a petition in favour of Roman Polanski after he was arrested in Switzerland in connection with a 13-year-old teen's 1977 arrest in connection with drugging and raping a 13-year-old teen.

Adjani was interviewed by Vincent Josse on the French public radio station France Inter in 2017. During the interview, she discussed her vaccine hesitancy and opposition to mandatory vaccination.

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Acting career

Adjani appeared in her first motion picture, Le Petit Bougnat (1970), at the age of 14. She first rose to prominence as a classical performer at the Comédie-Française, which she joined in 1972. She was lauded for her portrayal of Agnès, the main female role in Molière's L'École des Femmes. She left theatre to pursue a film career right away.

She had modest success in La Gifle (The Slap), which François Truffaut saw, after minor roles in several films. She was immediately cast in her first big role in her debut in Adèle H. (1975), which he had started writing five years ago. Critics applauded her performance, with American commentator Pauline Kael describing her acting abilities as "profound."

Adjani was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role at 19, becoming the youngest Best Actress nominee at the time (a record held for almost 30 years). She was quickly accepted for roles in Hollywood films, including Walter Hill's 1978 crime thriller The Driver. She had rejected the opportunity to appear in films like The Other Side of Midnight. "I'm not an American," she said of Hollywood as a "city of fiction." I didn't grow up to win an award." On the other hand, Truffaut said, "France is too small for her." Isabelle is made for American cinema, according to me. She decided to make The Driver because she was a fan of Hill's first film, Hard Times.

Adjani said:

In Adjani's native France, the film was seen more than 1.1 million times, but it didn't do as well in the United States.

She appeared Lucy in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of Nosferatu, which was highly regarded critically and did well at European box office. Roger Ebert loved the film, with Hermann's casting of Adjani as one of his "masterstrokes" in the film. "She is used here not only for her facial appearance, but also for her peculiar ability of appearing on an ethereal plane," she wrote. On request of 20th Century Fox, the American distributor, Kinski and Ganz could speak more clearly in their native language as Kinski and Ganz could act more confidently in their native language.

She was named twice in the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress award for her appearances in the Merchant Ivory film Quartet, based on Jean Rhys' novel, and in the horror film Possession (1981). In the subsequent year, she received her first César Award for Possession, in which she had depicted a woman experiencing a nervous breakdown. In 1983, she received her second César for her portrayal of a vengeful woman in the French blockbuster One Deadly Summer. Adjani released the French pop album Pull marine, which was written and produced by Serge Gainsbourg in the same year. She appeared in a music video for the hit title tune "Pull Marine," directed by Luc Besson.

She co-produced and appeared in a biography of Camille Claudel in 1988. She received her third César and second Oscar nomination for her role in the film, making her the first French actress to receive two Oscar nominations. The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Patrice Chéreau's fourth César award for Queen Margot, 1994, an ensemble epic directed by Patrice Chéreau. She earned her fifth César for Skirt Day (2009), the most an actor has received. In a struggling French suburb, she plays a middle school teacher who holds her class hostage when she mistakenly discharges a gun she discovered on one of her students. On March 20, 2009, it was premiered on the French Arte channel, attracting a record 2.2 million viewers) and then in movie theaters on March 25, 2009. After eight years of absence, the film was her return to the cinema. She appeared in the film Mammuth (2009), directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, and in which she played the phantom of Gérard Depardieu's first love. She lent her voice to Mother Gothel's role in the animated film Rapunzel this year. She co-starred in Defiance, Frank Henry's first film directed by Frank Henry, in 2011. Clara Damico, the commander of the brigade for the repression of banditry, was embodied by the woman.

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