Isabelle Adjani
Actor, Film actor
1955 –
Who is Isabelle Adjani?
Isabelle Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani rose to fame in 1975 for her overwhelmingly lauded performance as Adele Hugo in The Story of Adele H., garnering 20 year-old Adjani her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination, making her the youngest nominee ever at the time.
Adjani has appeared in many films since then, performing in French, English and German. She holds the record for the most César Awards for Best Actress, having received five: for Possession, One Deadly Summer, Camille Claudel, Queen Margot and Skirt Day.
Adjani was recognized with a double Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for Possession and Quartet in 1981. She received a Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1989. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. In 2010, she was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.
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- Born
- Jun 27, 1955
17th arrondissement - Also known as
- Isabelle Yasmine Adjani
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Bruno Nuytten
- Jean Michel Jarre
(2002 - 2004/06) - Daniel Day-Lewis
(1989 - 1995)
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Kabyle people
- Germans
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Lived in
- Gennevilliers
- Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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