Background
Adjani, Isabelle was born on June 27, 1955. Her mother was German, and her father Algerian and Turkish. When only a teenager, she was invited to join the Comédie Française, playing to great praise in Lorca and Molière.
Adjani, Isabelle was born on June 27, 1955. Her mother was German, and her father Algerian and Turkish. When only a teenager, she was invited to join the Comédie Française, playing to great praise in Lorca and Molière.
Lycbe de Courbevoie.
She has been making movies since the age of fourteen: Le Petit Bougnat (69, Bernard T. Michel); Faustine ou le Bel Été (71, Nina Companeez); La Gifle (74, Claude Pinoteau); and made an international impact as the love-crazed girl in L’Histoire d’Adèle H. (75, François Truffaut).
She was on the brink again in The Tenant (76, Roman Polanski); Barocco (76, André Téchiné); Violette et François (76, Jacques Rouffio); made an uneasy American debut in The Driver (78, Walter Hill); as a woman infatuated with the vampire in Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht (79, Werner Herzog); as Emily in The Bronte Sisters (79, Téchiné); Possession (80, Andrzej Zulawski); and Clara et les Chics Types (80, Jacques Monnet).
She played the central victim, a version of Jean Rhys, in Quartet (81, James Ivory); L’Année Prochaine si tout va bien (81, Jean-Loup Hubert); Tout Feu, Toute Flamme (82, Jean-Paul Rappe- neau); Mortelle Randonnée (82, Claude Miller); Doktor Faustus (82, Frank Seitz); as Antonieta Rivas Mercadi, a melodramatic arts patron, in Antonieta (82, Carlos Saura); was stark naked for much of L’Eté Meurtrier (82, Jean Becker), something between an erotic force of nature and a village idiot; Subway (85, Luc Besson); entirely wasted in Ishtar (87, Elaine May).
She was the producer as well as the star of Camille Claudel (88, Bruno Nuytten), her most overwhelming and characteristic performance, as a woman in love with art, exhilaration, and danger. Once more, she was nominated for the Oscar. If only Warren Beatty’ could have given her a role as strong. After four years, she made La Reine Margot (94, Patrice Cliéreau).
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Films include: Faustine ou le bel été, 1972, la Gifle, 1974, l'Histoire d'Adèle H., 1975 (best actress New York Critics 1976), le Locataire, 1976, Barocco, 1977, Violette et François, 1977, Driver, 1977, Nosferatu, 1978, les Soeurs Bronté, 1978, Possession, 1980 (best actress Cannes 1981), Clara et les chics types, 1980, Quartet, 1981 (best actress Cannes 1982), l'Année prochaine si tout va bien, 1981, Antonieta, 1982, l'Eté meurtrier, 1983 (best actress César 1984), Mortelle randonné, 1983, Subway, 1985, Ishtar, 1987, Camille Claudel, 1988 (best actress César 1989), Queen Margot, 1994. Theater: la Maison de Bernarda, 1970, 74, l'Avare, 1972-1973, l'Ecole des femmes, 1973, Port-Royal, 1973, Ondine, 1974. Television: le Petit bougnat, 1969, le Secret des flamands, 1972, l'Ecole des femmes, 1973, Top à Sacha Distel, 1974.