Isabelle Adjani
| Isabelle Adjani | |
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 Adjani at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. |
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| Born | Isabelle Yasmine Adjani 27 June 1955 Gennevilliers (North Paris), Hauts-de-Seine, France[1] |
| Occupation | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1970–present |
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| 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 Awards for Best Actress with five, 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 and a Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1989. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She performs in French, English and German.
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[edit] Early life
Adjani was born in an immigrant neighborhood Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris to an Algerian Kabyle father from Constantine, Algeria, Mohammed Cherif Adjani. Her father was a soldier in the French Army in World War II. Her mother Augusta, called "Gusti", was German.[2][3] She grew up speaking German fluently as a first language.[4][5][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).[7]
[edit] 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".[8][9] She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar and offers for roles 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. That same year, she 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.
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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 publicity, she was chosen by People magazine as one of the '50 Most Beautiful People' in the world. In 2011 she was named 'The Most Beautiful Woman in Film' by the Los Angeles Times magazine. Her fourth César win was for the 1994 film Queen Margot, an ensemble epic directed by Patrice Chéreau.
[edit] Personal life
In 1980 she had a son, Barnabé Nuytten with cinematographer Bruno Nuytten.[4] Adjani was romantically linked to actor Warren Beatty from 1986 to 1987, and Daniel Day Lewis in 1989.[4] The relationship ended; she gave birth to their son, Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis.[4] Adjani was also engaged to composer Jean Michel Jarre; they broke up in 2004.[10]
In 2009, she denounced statements by Pope Benedict XVI claiming that condoms are not an effective method of AIDS prevention.[11] Adjani was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur on Wednesday, 14 July 2010.[12]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Discography
- Pull marine (1983; produced and written by Serge Gainsbourg)
[edit] References
- ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Isabelle Adjani". Allmovie. http://www.allmovie.com/artist/374. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
- ^ « 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
- ^ a b c d "Isabelle Adjani". Yahoo! Movies. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800059949. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
- ^ Kemp, Philip. "Isabelle Adjani". Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-A-Ba/Adjani-Isabelle.html. Retrieved 8 September 2008.
- ^ Applefield, David (November 2001). "Isabelle Adjani". Paris Voice. http://www.parisvoice.com/voicearchives/01/nov/html/comments.html.
- ^ Isabelle Adjani at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Pauline Kael Reviews Retrieved on 8 September 2008.
- ^ Kael, Pauline (1980). When The Lights Go Down. Henry Holt & Co.. ISBN 0-03042-511-5.
- ^ Watson, Shane (15 August 2004). "The dumping game". The Times (UK). http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/style/article466434.ece. Retrieved 19 June 2007.
- ^ "Adjani traite le pape de «peste blanche»". 20 Minuten. 25 March 2009. http://www.20min.ch/ro/entertainment/people/story/Adjani-traite-le-pape-de--peste-blanche--16947406.
- ^ "Légion d'honneur : Aubrac, Bouygues, Pérol, Adjani, Bolling parmi les promus", Le Monde, 14.07.10
- ^ "Berlinale: 1989 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1989/03_preistr_ger_1989/03_Preistraeger_1989.html. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
[edit] 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
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