- Name: Isabelle Adjani
- Date of Birth: June 27, 1955
- Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Isabelle Adjani mini-bio: Isabelle Adjani, one of the most talented and accomplished actresses in the
history of French and world cinema, was born on June 27, 1955 in Paris,
France in the 17th Arrondissement, a working class neighborhood on the Right
Bank of the Seine. She and her younger brother Eric were raised by her
ethnic Algerian father and ethnic German mother in Gennevilliers in the
Hauts-de-Seine department, an industrial city located near to and to the
northwest of Paris. She started acting before her teen years, appearing in
amateur theater by the time she was 12 years old and in her first movie at
the age of 14.
The teenage Adjani, already a great beauty, appeared with the Comedie
Francaise, France's premier theater, and scored a great success in Jean
Giraudoux's play Ondine (1975) (TV) when she was 17 years old (she repeated
the performance on TV in 1974). She attracted notice, on film, as the
daughter in Gifle, La (1974), which was released in 1974, the year she left
the Comedie Francaise. Also that year, she filmed what would prove to be her
cinema breakthrough, playing the title role in French cinema great 'Francois
Truffaut''s Histoire d'Adèle H., L' (1975) ("The Story of Adele H."), a
biographical film about Victor Hugo's daughter. The role brought her her
first Best Actress nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences and from the French Academy (the Oscar and César, respectively).
Her beauty and talent made her an international star, and the multilingual
Adjani has performed in English and German-language films as well as in her
native French tongue. She garnered the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress
Award for her English-language role in 'James Merchant''s 1981 film Quartet
(1981) in 1991, then won the first of her four record Césars the next year
for Possession (1981), which was directed by her then-lover (and father of
her first child) Andrzej Zulawski. She won her second Cé in 1983 for her
role in Été meurtrier, L' (1983) ("One Deadly Summer" (1983)) and her third
for playing French sculptor Camille Claudel (1988) in the eponymous film.
That role also brought her her second Best Actress Oscar nomination (the
film, which was produced by her own production company, also was nominated
for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar). She won her record fourth César
for Reine Margot, La (1994) ("Queen Margot" (1994)). This last film
represented the high-water mark of her career.
The legendary Adjani has appeared in only five movies since "La Reine
Margot" (and only 24 movies altogether since "Adele H."), being last seen on
screen in 2003 in two films: the female lead in Bon voyage (2003) and a
cameo in Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (2003). As Adjani explained
after quitting the Comedie Francaise a generation ago, work is not her
consuming passion. In the past decade, she has devoted most of her time to
her private life, including raising her two children, Barnabé Nuytten and
Gabriel-Kane Adjani (born 1995), her son fathered by former lover Daniel
Day-Lewis.
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