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Algeria to host mega pan-African festival

Breitbart.com - Found Jul. 2, 2009
... troupes from all over Africa, and other musicians, dancers, stage and screen stars like actress Isabelle Adjani, and many less-well known...
International African Arts Festival: July 2- July 5 - Examiner.com
AFRAM 2009: same place, same itinerary, different price 14 hrs ago - ... - Examiner.com
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Posted on July 2, 2009, 10:57 am

Vampire wars

Louisville Courier-Journal - Found Jun. 27, 2009
DONNA BRAZILE talking about the late Michael Jackson on CNN's 'The Situation Room' Julia Duffy, 58 Isabelle Adjani, 54 Tobey Maguire, 34 Musicians,

Posted on June 27, 2009, 9:28 am

A Miller's tale

Sunday Herald - Found Jun. 27, 2009
11-year-old Ronan - as well as a 14-year-old stepson, Gabriel, from her husband's six-year relationship with French actress Isabelle Adjani.

Posted on June 27, 2009, 12:33 pm

Today In History June 27, 2009

WCBS-TV - Found Jun. 27, 2009
... is 71. Singer-musician Bruce Johnston (The Beach Boys) is 67. Actress Julia Duffy is 58. Actress Isabelle Adjani is 54. Country singer Lorrie...

Posted on June 27, 2009, 5:49 am

David Rocksavage, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, is engaged to Rose ...

Telegraph - Found Jun. 22, 2009
... the Queen at State Openings of Parliament, has in the past been linked to Lisa Barbuscia, Sabrina Guinness and Isabelle Adjani, among others.

Posted on June 22, 2009, 4:24 am

Algeria to host mega pan-African festival

ABS-CBN News - Found Jul. 2, 2009
... troupes from all over Africa, and other musicians, dancers, stage and screen stars like actress Isabelle Adjani, and many less-well known...

Posted on July 2, 2009, 8:19 am

Algeria to host mega pan-African festival

Africa Leader - Found Jul. 2, 2009
... troupes from all over Africa, and other musicians, dancers, stage and screen stars like actress Isabelle Adjani, and many less-well known...

Posted on July 2, 2009, 3:29 am

Pardon my French

Lancaster Online - Found Jun. 20, 2009
Brie etc pulled off the shelves at the grocery store 2. No decent wine, anywhere 3. A ban on all French movies - What, no Isabelle Adjani!?

Posted on June 20, 2009, 8:58 am

Today's Birthdays for June 27

Canton Repository - Found Jun. 27, 2009
Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys is 67. Actress Julia Duffy (?Newhart?) is 58. Actress Isabelle Adjani is 54. Country singer Lorrie Morgan...

Posted on June 27, 2009, 1:24 pm

Celebrity birthdays: Who's another year older June 27?

Orange County Register - Found Jun. 27, 2009
Boys is 67. Fashion designer Vera Wang is 60. Actress Julia Duffy ('Newhart') is 58. Actress Isabelle Adjani is 54. Evangelist Ted Haggard is...

Posted on June 27, 2009, 10:32 am

Isabelle Adjani Biography

Isabelle Adjani
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Isabelle Adjani
Born Isabelle Yasmine Adjani
27 June 1955 (1955-06-27) (age 54)
Gennevilliers (near Paris), France1
Years active 1970–present
Domestic partner(s) Warren Beatty (1986–1987)2
Daniel Day-Lewis (1988–1994)
Official website

Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born 27 June 1955) is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She won four César Awards in Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), and Queen Margot (1994). Also she 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, a suburb of Paris3 (some sources say Bavaria, Germany45) to an Algerian father, Mohammed Cherif Adjani, and a German mother, Augusta, called "Gusti". She grew up speaking German fluently as a first language.678 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".9 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.

Adjani as Marya Zelli in Quartet.

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

Adjani has two sons: Barnabé Nuytten with Bruno Nuytten, and Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis from her six-year relationship with Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis. Gabriel-Kane was born in New York City in 1995, several months after her relationship with Day-Lewis ended.

Adjani was also engaged to composer Jean Michel Jarre, but they broke up publicly in 2004.10

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 on the futility of condoms in AIDS prevention.12

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1970 Le Petit bougnat Rose
1972 Faustine et le bel été Camille
1974 La Gifle Isabelle Doulean
1975 The Story of Adèle H. Adèle Hugo Best Actress Oscar nomination
1976 The Tenant Stella
Barocco Laure
1977 Violette & François Violette Clot
1978 The Driver The Player
1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre Lucy Harker
The Bronte Sisters Emily Brontë
1981 Clara et les Chics Types Clara
Possession Anna/Helen Best Actress César Won
Quartet Marya Zelli
L' Année prochaine... si tout va bien Isabelle
1982 Tout feu, tout flamme Pauline Valance
Antonieta Antonieta Rivas Mercado
1983 Mortelle randonnée Catherine Leiris/Lucie, 'Marie'
L' Été meurtrier (One Deadly Summer) Eliane dite 'Elle' Best Actress César Won
1985 Subway Héléna
1986 T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais
1987 Ishtar Shirra Assel
1988 Camille Claudel Camille Claudel Best Actress César Won & Best Actress Oscar nomination
1993 Toxic Affair Pénélope
1994 Queen Margot Margot Best Actress César Won
1996 Diabolique Mia Baran
2002 La Repentie Charlotte/Leïla
Adolphe Ellénore
2003 Bon voyage Viviane Denvers
Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran La star
2008 La journée de la jupe Sonia Bergerac

Discography

References

Bibliography

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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Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Liv Ullmann
for Scenes from a Marriage
NYFCC Award for Best Actress
1975
for The Story of Adele H.
Succeeded by
Liv Ullmann
for Face to Face
Preceded by
Anouk Aimée
for Leap Into The Void
Best Actress Award - Cannes Film Festival
1981
for Possession and Quartet
Succeeded by
Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak
for Another Way
Preceded by
Catherine Deneuve
for The Last Metro
César Award for Best Actress
1982
for Possession
Succeeded by
Nathalie Baye
for La Balance
Preceded by
Nathalie Baye
for La Balance
César Award for Best Actress
1984
for One Deadly Summer
Succeeded by
Sabine Azéma
for A Sunday in the Country
Preceded by
Holly Hunter
for Broadcast News
Silver Bear for Best Actress- Berlin Film Festival
1989
for Camille Claudel
Succeeded by
Xie Fei
for Black Snow
Preceded by
Anémone
for Le Grand Chemin
César Award for Best Actress
1989
for Camille Claudel
Succeeded by
Carole Bouquet
for Too Beautiful for You
Preceded by
Juliette Binoche
for Three Colors: Blue
César Award for Best Actress
1995
for Queen Margot
Succeeded by
Isabelle Huppert
for La Cérémonie