Isabelle Adjani
| 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 Gennevilliers (near Paris), Hauts-de-Seine, France[1] |
| Occupation | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1970–present |
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| http://www.isabelleadjani.net/ | |
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born 27 June 1955) is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Award for Best Actress (5), which she won for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), Queen Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009). She was also given a double Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1981. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She performs in French, English, and German.
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Early life
Adjani was born in an immigrant neighborhood Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris[1] (some sources say Bavaria, Germany[2][3]) to an Algerian father from Kabylie, Mohammed Cherif Adjani, soldier in the French Army in World War II, and a German mother, Augusta, called "Gusti". [4][5] She grew up speaking German fluently as a first language.[2][3][6] After winning a school recitation contest, she began acting in amateur theater by the age of twelve. At the age of 14, she starred in her first motion picture Le Petit bougnat (1970).
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 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. Critics enthused over her performance, with Pauline Kael calling her acting talents "Prodigious".[7][8] 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 woman having a nervous breakdown. In 1983, she won the César, for her depiction of a vengeful woman in the blockbuster One Deadly Summer.
In 1989, she co-produced and starred in a biopic of the tragic 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.
Personal life
In 1980 she had a son, Barnabé Nuytten with cinematographer Bruno Nuytten. Adjani was romantically linked to actor Warren Beatty from 1986 to 1987.[2]
She had a relationship with Daniel Day-Lewis lasting from 1988 to 1994. In 1995, several months after their relationship ended, she gave birth to his son, Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis[2][9].
Adjani was also engaged to composer Jean Michel Jarre, but they broke up publicly in 2004.[10] She was also engaged to Dr Stéphane Delajoux, a surgeon, who operated on Johnny Hallyday.
In 1987, some French media outlets incorrectly reported that Adjani was dying of AIDS, forcing her to appear on television to deny it.[11]
In 2009, she denounced statements by Pope Benedict XVI claiming that condoms are not an effective method of AIDS prevention, despite massive scientific evidence to the contrary.[12][13]
Adjani was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur on Wednesday, 14th July 2010.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1970 | Le Petit bougnat | Rose | |
| 1972 | Faustine et le bel été | Camille | |
| 1974 | La Gifle | Isabelle Doulean | Special David di Donatello |
| 1975 | The Story of Adèle H. | Adèle Hugo | Cartagena Film Festival Golden India Catalina for Best Actress David di Donatello for Best Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—César Award for Best Actress |
| 1976 | The Tenant | Stella | |
| 1976 | Barocco | Laure | Nominated—César Award for Best Actress |
| 1977 | Violette & François | Violette Clot | |
| 1978 | The Driver | The Player | |
| 1979 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | Lucy Harker | |
| 1979 | The Bronte Sisters | Emily Brontë | |
| 1981 | Clara et les Chics Types | Clara | |
| 1981 | Possession | Anna/Helen | Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award (also for Quartet) César Award for Best Actress |
| 1981 | Quartet | Marya Zelli | Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award (also for Possession) |
| 1981 | L' Année prochaine... si tout va bien | Isabelle | |
| 1982 | Tout feu, tout flamme | Pauline Valance | |
| 1982 | Antonieta | Antonieta Rivas Mercado | |
| 1983 | Mortelle randonnée | Catherine Leiris/Lucie, 'Marie' | |
| 1983 | One Deadly Summer | Eliane dite 'Elle' | César Award for Best Actress |
| 1985 | Subway | Héléna | Nominated—César Award for Best Actress |
| 1986 | T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais | ||
| 1987 | Ishtar | Shirra Assel | |
| 1988 | Camille Claudel | Camille Claudel | César Award for Best Actress Silver Bear for Best Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress |
| 1993 | Toxic Affair | Pénélope | |
| 1994 | Queen Margot | Margot | César Award for Best Actress |
| 1996 | Diabolique | Mia Baran | |
| 2002 | La Repentie | Charlotte/Leïla | |
| 2002 | Adolphe | Ellénore | Cabourg Romantic Film Festival Award for Best Actress |
| 2003 | Bon voyage | Viviane Denvers | |
| 2003 | Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran | La star | |
| 2009 | La journée de la jupe | Sonia Bergerac | César Award for Best Actress |
| 2010 | Mammuth | Entered into the 60th Berlin International Film Festival |
Discography
- Pull marine (1983; produced and written by Serge Gainsbourg)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brennan, Sandra. "Isabelle Adjani". Allmovie. http://www.allmovie.com/artist/374. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Isabelle Adjani". Yahoo! Movies. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800059949. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kemp, Philip. "Isabelle Adjani". Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-A-Ba/Adjani-Isabelle.html. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
- ↑ « Allemande rencontrée en Bavière qu'épousa à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale Mohammed Adjani, soldat kabyle de l'armée française », Jean de La Guérivière, Amère Méditerranée: Le Maghreb et nous, Seuil, 2004, p.391
- ↑ Isabelle Adjani : « Mon père, kabyle, s'était engagé dans l'armée française à 16 ans, et c'est en remontant d'Italie jusqu'en Bavière à la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale qu'il rencontre et séduit ma mère », Interview Isabelle Adjani Télérama du 31 mars 2009
- ↑ Applefield, David (November 2001). "Isabelle Adjani". Paris Voice. http://www.parisvoice.com/voicearchives/01/nov/html/comments.html.
- ↑ Pauline Kael Reviews Retrieved on 2008-09-08.
- ↑ Kael, Pauline (1980). When The Lights Go Down. Henry Holt & Co.. ISBN 0-03042-511-5.
- ↑ Scott, Paul (2008-01-19). "The VERY strange life of reclusive superstar Daniel Day-Lewis". The Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-509161/The-VERY-strange-life-reclusive-superstar-Daniel-Day-Lewis.html. Retrieved 2010-01-07.
- ↑ Watson, Shane (2004-08-15). "The dumping game". TimesOnline (London: The Times). http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/style/article466434.ece. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
- ↑ "Film star Adjani goes on French TV to dispel health rumors". St Petersburg Times (Florida). 1987-01-20. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49922351.html?dids=49922351:49922351&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jan+20%2C+1987&author=&pub=St.+Petersburg+Times&edition=&startpage=3.A&desc=Film+star+Adjani+goes+on+French+TV+to+dispel+health+rumors+Series%3A+People. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
- ↑ "Adjani traite le pape de «peste blanche»". 20 Minuten. 2009-03-25. http://www.20min.ch/ro/entertainment/people/story/Adjani-traite-le-pape-de--peste-blanche--16947406.
- ↑ "Harvard Aids expert says Pope 'correct' on condoms and spread of HIV »". Times Online. 2010-05-24. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5987155.ece.
Further reading
- Adjani, Isabelle (1980). Isabelle Adjani in : Jean-Luc Douin (Hrsg.): Comédiennes aujourd'hui : au micro et sous le regard. Paris: Lherminier. ISBN 2-862-44 020-5
- Austin, Guy (2003). Foreign bodies: Jean Seberg and Isabelle Adjani, S. 91–106 in: ders., Stars in Modern French Film. Londres: Arnold. ISBN 0-340-76 019-2
- Austin, Guy (2006). Telling the truth can be a dangerous business : Isabelle Adjani, race and stardom, in : Remapping World Cinema : Identity, Culture and Politics in Film, herausgegeben von Stephanie Dennison und Song Hwee Lim, London: Wallflower Press. ISBN 1-904-76 462-2
- Halberstadt, Michèle (2002). Adjani aux pieds nus – Journal de la repentie. Paris: Editions Calmann-Lévy. ISBN 2-702-13 293-6
- Roques-Briscard, Christian (1987). La passion d'Adjani, Lausanne et al.: Favre. ISBN 2-828-90 279-X
- Zurhorst, Meinolf (1992). Isabelle Adjani. Ihre Filme – Ihr Leben. Heyne Film – und Fernsehbibliothek, Band 163. München: Heyne. ISBN 3-453-05 238-2
External links
- Isabelle Adjani at the Internet Movie Database
- Isabelle Adjani at Yahoo! Movies
- Isabelle Adjani at Allmovie
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