Isabelle Adjani (born 27 June 1955) is a French film actress and singer. She is a five-time César Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee.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.
César Award for Best Actress, Cannes Best Actress Award, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, David di Donatello Special Award
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actress, Molière Award for Best Actress
Movies
Possession, La Reine Margot, One Deadly Summer, The Slap, Camille Claudel, The Story of Adele H., Nosferatu the Vampyre, Diabolique, French Women, The Tenant, Skirt Day, Subway, The Driver, Ishtar, Deadly Circuit, Ishkq in Paris, Mammuth, David et Madame Hansen, Bon Voyage, Adolphe, Tout feu, tout f...
[on the differences between American and French films] For me, there is no difference, for in both cases I remain myself. But as American budgets are more important, everything is in proportion and much more hierarchical, with a star system that, basically, exists only there, and that brings along constraints and a discipline unknown on European sets. In Europe, there are, even for a star, limits that can't be exceeded, or one risks being rejected by the crew. In America, the crew is really a proletariat in service of the star system, a system that functions like a true dictatorship and that no one, by the way, seems to challenge. No one says no, no one says stop. It's very strange.
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I like films that rest in the memory so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force. For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.
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The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs. why.
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[in 1977] This is all very funny. Today I am a star - and tomorrow?
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It's rare to find a director who really likes and knows how to look at a woman through the camera.
Born in the 17th district of Paris to an Algerian father and German mother.
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President of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.
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Was selected as the second most beautiful woman (after Monica Bellucci) by the French public in the TV show "La plus belle femme du monde" on Nov. 8, 2004.
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Fluent in English and German. German was her first language, but then she forced herself to learn French.
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Announced that she has broken up with her boyfriend of two years, musician Jean-Michel Jarre, revealing to the magazine Paris-Match that he had cheated on her. (June 2004)
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Said in a 1970 interview with Paris-Match that she would never wear pants "because her hips were too big".
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