Isabelle
Adjani (born June 27, 1955) is an actress and movie
producer.Born Isabelle Yasmine Adjani in Gennevilliers,
Hauts-de-Seine, France, she is the daughter of an Algerian-Turkish
father and a German mother.One of her country's best
known actresses, and recognized worldwide, at a young
age Isabelle Adjani was drawn to acting, playing in
amateur theater by the age of twelve. As a fourteen-year-old,
she appeared in her first motion picture. After minor
roles in several films, in 1974 she received positive
reviews and much public acclaim for her performance
in the film, La Gifle, (The Slap). The following year
she was cast in her first starring role in François
Truffaut's film, L'Histoire d'Adele H., (The Story of
Adele H.). For her work, she was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Actress bringing offers for roles in
Hollywood films.
In 1981 she received the César
Award, France's equivalent of an Oscar, for her role
in Possession. In 1983 and 1988 she won the César
again. In 1989, she co-produced and starred in the
film Camille Claudel. She would receive her fourth
César Award and second nomination for an Academy
Award for Best Actress for her role in the film as
well as a nomination 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.
She has one son, Gabriel-Kane Adjani,
from her tempestuous six-year relationship with British
actor Daniel Day-Lewis. The child was born in 1996,
several months after Day-Lewis broke off with the
actress via a faxed message. She reportedly became
engaged to French musician Jean Michel Jarre in 2002,
though the couple's relationship ended in June 2004,
when the actress announced to Paris Match, two months
before the reportedly scheduled marriage, that she
had discovered Jarre was having an affair with the
actress Anne Parillaud. Jarre, for his part, insisted
that he and Adjani had already been separated for
six months and that he never intended to marry her
at any time.Born Isabelle Yasmine Adjanian, on Jun
27, 1955, in Paris, France. Another perennially beautiful
French actress who obviously made a pact with the
Devil somewhere along the line; she must be as old
as the hills by now and still looks like she's in
her twenties.
Not that this has always helped her.
While she remains a successful actress in France,
her attempts at breaking into the American market
(eg., Ishtar) have been forbiddingly disastrous. Her
mixed Algerian and German background and public criticism
of the French National Front's xenophobia have made
her the target of various French right-wing groups,
which in a 1986 defamation campaign had momentarily
convinced France that Isabelle had died of AIDS. Later
she incurred the wrath of the Muslim world after reading
from The Satanic Verses at the 1989 Césars
and generally criticizing Islamic fundamentalism in
Algeria. Then in 1995, shortly after giving birth
to his son, she was reportedly dumped via fax by actor
Daniel Day Lewis. Some people just can't get a break
no matter how good-looking they are.
Filmography
La repentie (2001)
Paparaz (1998)
Diabolique (1996)
La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) (1994) (César
Award)
Toxic Affair (1993)
Lung Ta: Les Cavaliers du Vent (1990)
Camille Claudel (1988) (César Award - Oscar
nomination)
Ishtar (1987)
Subway (1985)
L'été meurtrier (One Deadly Summer)
(1983) (César Award)
Antonieta (1982)
Mortelle randonnee (Deadly Circuit) (1982)
L'année prochaine, si tout va bien (Next Year
If All Goes Well) (1981)
Possession (1981) (César Award)
Quartet (1981)
Tout feu, tout flamme (All Fired Up) (1981)
Clara et les Chics Types (Clara and the Swell Guys)
(1980)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre)
(1979)
Les Soeurs Bronte (The Bronte Sisters) (1979)
The Driver (1978)
Barocco (1976)
Le locataire (The Tenant) (1976)
Violette et François (1976)
L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (The Story of Adele H.)
(1975) (Oscar nomination)
La gifle (The Slap) (1974)
L'école des femmes (1972)
Faustine (1971)
Le petit bougnat (1969)
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