Isabelle Adjani
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| Isabelle Adjani | |
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Isabelle Adjani at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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| Born | Isabelle Yasmine Adjani 27 June 1955 Paris, France[1] |
| Occupation | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | Mohammed Adjani, Augusta Adjani |
| Relatives | Eric Adjani (brother, deceased) |
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| César Awards | |
| Best Actress 1982 Possession 1984 L'été meurtrier 1989 Camille Claudel 1995 La reine Margot 2010 La journée de la jupe |
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| Cannes Film Festival | |
| Best Actress 1981 Quartet ; Possession |
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Adjani rose to fame in 1975 for her lauded performance as Adele Hugo in The Story of Adele H., which earned the then 20 year-old her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, making her the youngest nominee ever at the time. She won the first of a record five César Awards for Best Actress for the 1981 film Possession. Her subsequent wins were for One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), La Reine Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009). Her 1988 Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Camille Claudel, made her the first French actress to receive two nominations.
Adjani won the 1981 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for both Possession and Quartet, and received the 1989 Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award for Camille Claudel. In 2010, she was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.
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Early life
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani was born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris to a German mother from Bavaria and an Algerian father from Iferhounène, Kabylie.[2][3][4][5] Her mother Augusta, called "Gusti", met her father Mohammed Adjani near the end of World War II, when he was in the French Army. They married and she returned with him to Paris, not speaking a word of French.[6][7]She asked him to take Cherif as his first name as it sounded more "American".[8] Mohammed Cherif Adjani was a soldier in the French Army from the age of 16 in World War II.
Isabelle Adjani grew up bilingual, speaking French and German fluently.[9][10][11] She said her parents used their ethnic and cultural differences against each other in arguments. After winning a school recitation contest, Adjani began acting by the age of twelve in amateur theater.
Career
At the age of 14, Adjani starred in her first motion picture, Le Petit bougnat (1970).[12]Adjani first gained fame as a classical actress at the Comédie française, which she joined in 1972. She was praised for her interpretation of Agnès, the main female role in Molière's L'École des femmes. She soon left the theatre 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. (1975). Critics praised her performance, with the American critic Pauline Kael describing her acting talents as "prodigious".[13][14] Only nineteen when she made the film, Adjani was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar and quickly received offers for roles in Hollywood films, such as Walter Hill's 1978 crime thriller The Driver. She played Lucy in the German director Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of Nosferatu.
In 1981, Adjani received a double Cannes Film Festival's best actress award for her roles in the Merchant Ivory film Quartet, based on the novel by Jean Rhys, and in the horror film Possession (1981). The following year, she received her first César Award for Possession, in which she had portrayed a woman having a nervous breakdown. In 1983, she won her second César for her depiction of a vengeful woman in the French blockbuster One Deadly Summer.
That same year, Adjani released the French pop album Pull marine, written and produced by Serge Gainsbourg. She starred in a music video for the hit title song, "Pull Marine", which was directed by Luc Besson.
In 1988, she co-produced and starred in a biopic of the 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 recognition, she was chosen by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" in the world.
In 2011, Adjani was named "The Most Beautiful Woman in Film" by the Los Angeles Times magazine.[16]
Personal life
Adjani was later engaged to the composer Jean Michel Jarre; they broke up in 2004.[17]
In 2009, Adjani criticized statements by Pope Benedict XVI claiming that condoms are not an effective method of AIDS prevention.[18]
Honors
In addition to specific awards for particular films, Adjani was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur on 14 July 2010 for her artistic contributions.[19]Filmography
Discography
- Pull marine (1983; produced and written by Serge Gainsbourg)
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