Isabelle Yasmine Adjani , born the June 27th 1955 with Paris, is a French Actrice . Beginner at 14 years with the theater, then entering to the Comédie-Française, it becomes very famous at the end of the Seventies thanks to the cinema, while playing as well in dressed up whodunnits, dramatic films, comedies or films. It obtained four Césars of the best actress.

Biography

Isabelle Adjani is born the June 27th 1955 with Paris 17 {{E}}, of a father Algérie N, Mohammed, and of a German mother , Augusta, called Gusti.

She grows with her younger brother with Gennevilliers, in the north-western suburbs of Paris, goes to the college to Courbevoie, and obtains its first role at 14 years in a film for children, the Small Coal merchant .

She enters to the Comédie-Française in 1972, where she points out herself by interpreting the role of Agnes in the School of the Women , of Molière. With the cinema, it is revealed with the general public by the Slap of Claude Pinoteau, whose success propels it in the circle of the French actresses most popular. Some of the most prestigious realizers make it turn: François Truffaut ( History of Adele H. ), Andre Techine ( Barocco ), Roman Polanski (the Tenant), etc

As much of its colleagues, it was also tested with the song: it is Serge Gainsbourg which guides his beginnings in this discipline in 1974, making him record for a televised show of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier Rocking Chair . In 1983, it carries out a whole album under the direction of Gainsbourg and obtains a number 1 out of 45-turns with Pull Marine , which profits from a video clip carried out by Luc Besson. A few years later, it leaves an individual written without Gainsbourg, the princess with the garden pea , which did not obtain any success. It was envisaged a at the beginning of 2007 new album written by Pascal Obispo.

It is for the moment the only actress to have obtained four times the César of the best actress in a first role, having also been nominated with the Oscars for its roles of Adele Hugo ( History of Adele H. ) and of Camille Claudel. The evening of obtaining sound César for this interpretation, it created sensation by reading a passage of the novel the satanic Verses of Salman Rushdie, then under the blow of a Islamic Fatwa . A few months before, a malevolent rumor had given it for dead, obliging it to appear on line with the Tv news 20 hours to contradict. Very concerned of the respect of its private life, it grants only very few interviews and reduces its public appearances to the strict minimum.

In 1996, tired harassing of the fans and media from which she suffered with Paris, the actress is established in Suisse, with Geneva. She declared at the time of her arrival: When one with the possibility of offering to his children a better quality of life, one should not any more hesitate . But it returned definitively to Paris some time later, to play on scene the Lady with the camellias. More recently, its sentimental vexations abundantly mediatized with the musician Jean-Michel Jarre defrayed the chronicle.

Isabelle Adjani returns on the boards, with the autumn 2006, to incarnate the last night for Marie Stuart in the role titrates this queen of Scotland and France, carried out in 1587.

She has two wire, the first of the realizer Bruno Nuytten, Barnabé, born in 1979 and the second of the actor Daniel Day Lewis, Gabriel-Kane, born the April 9th 1995.

Catalog of films

Theater

Isabelle Adjani integrated the Comédie-Française in 1972, as a boarder, without being last by obligatory the Conservatoire National of Dramatic art. She remained there nearly 3 years.
With the Comédie-Française:
Except Comédie-Française:

Cinema

Television

Rewards and nominations

Political standpoint

  • In 1988, it finds its roots while going to Algeria, the day before the referendum suggested by president Chadli, “to support the birth of a democracy”.
  • At the time of the presidential Frenchwoman of 1988, her name having been used for the countryside of Jacques Chirac, it intervenes on TF1 to say that it does not support anybody.
  • In October 2007, it takes part in the demonstration, the sides of several known characters, against the installation of test DNA for family gathering

Anecdotes

  • Departure of the Comédie-Française in January 1975.
  • In 1983, it gives up after a few days, the turning of Prénom Carmen which Jean-Luc Godard carries out. Isabelle will say in particular, in connection with the realizer: " During these a few days with him, I felt without protection, vulnérable". She is replaced by Marushka Detmers.
  • With the autumn 1983, Isabelle plays theater Edouard VII, the part of August Strindberg, Miss Julie, at the sides of Niels Arestrup. At the end of some representations, it gives up calling upon a great tiredness. " That does not put in good health the cinéma" she says. It is the actress Fanny Ardant who replaces Isabelle.
  • on January 18th, 1987, for made conceal a rumor according to which it would have been reached AIDS or which it would be even deceased, the actress is made interview by the journalist Bruno Masure, with the Journal 20 hour old of TF1, to prove that it is quite alive and in good health.
  • Isabelle Adjani took part in publicity campaigns for the Lux soap, the Woolite detergent, Renault, Lejaby and in the United States for the GAP socks.
  • Chairs the 50e Cannes festival from May 18th to 27th 1997.
  • Chairs the 30 E Cérémonie of the Césars on February 26th, 2005.

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