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I love her!!!! It´s amazing! She aged so gracefully! La Reine Margot is one of the best Movie´s I´ve ever seen!!!
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I've always loved this song by Isabelle Adjani - plus the video was dir. by Luc Besson!
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Thanks to you Yana for posting the "screen" magazine photos.
Portraits from some of Isabelle Adjani's roles and editorials photos at the beginning of her brilliant career.(technique:ink and pencil)
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Portraits from some of Isabelle Adjani's roles and editorials photos at the beginning of her brilliant career.(technique:ink and pencil)
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Photo for an article by Sylvie Genevoix (in Le Figaro Madame?Elle.fr?)
photo©Dominique Issermann/sygma
photo©Dominique Issermann/sygmamodillustr
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Isabelle Adjani biography
From Wikipedia, I just added the two "blue" lines.
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (in kabyle: izabel yasmin ağani), (born June 27, 1955 in Paris’s 17th arrondissement) is a César Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated French film actress and singer. She is of Algerian-German parentage,and performs in her native French, English, and German. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actress and was awarded the César award four times.
Early life
Adjani grew up in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine to a Algerian father from Constantine, Mohammed Adjani, and a German mother, Augusta Gusti. She was drawn to acting at a young age, playing in amateur theater by the age of twelve. As a fourteen-year-old, she appeared in her first motion picture.
Career
She played under Robert Hossein ‘s directing in “la maison de Bernada” at the Reims ‘s theatre (1973/1974?)
She also played Ondine in Jean Giraudoux’s “Ondine “(1974)
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 movie career. After minor roles in several films, she received positive reviews and much public acclaim for her performance in the 1974 film La Gifle (or The Slap) The following year, she was cast in her first starring role in François Truffaut's The Story of Adele H. which resulted in a nomination for the Best Actress Oscar and offers for rôles in Hollywood films.And she played Lucy in Werner Herzog 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 frustrated woman going mad. In 1983, she won the César, for her depiction of a vengeful woman in the French blockbuster One Deadly Summer.
In 1989, she co-produced and starred in a biopic of the tragic French 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 French composer Jean Michel Jarre, but they broke up publicly in 2004.In 1987, some French media outlets incorrectly reported that she was dying of AIDS, forcing her to appear on television to deny it.
During the shoot of "The story of Adèle H." by and with François Truffaut on this images (01/1975).
All images © "Truffaut par Truffaut" written by Dominique Rabourdin, Editions du Chêne 1985
From Wikipedia, I just added the two "blue" lines.
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (in kabyle: izabel yasmin ağani), (born June 27, 1955 in Paris’s 17th arrondissement) is a César Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated French film actress and singer. She is of Algerian-German parentage,and performs in her native French, English, and German. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actress and was awarded the César award four times.
Early life
Adjani grew up in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine to a Algerian father from Constantine, Mohammed Adjani, and a German mother, Augusta Gusti. She was drawn to acting at a young age, playing in amateur theater by the age of twelve. As a fourteen-year-old, she appeared in her first motion picture.
Career
She played under Robert Hossein ‘s directing in “la maison de Bernada” at the Reims ‘s theatre (1973/1974?)
She also played Ondine in Jean Giraudoux’s “Ondine “(1974)
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 movie career. After minor roles in several films, she received positive reviews and much public acclaim for her performance in the 1974 film La Gifle (or The Slap) The following year, she was cast in her first starring role in François Truffaut's The Story of Adele H. which resulted in a nomination for the Best Actress Oscar and offers for rôles in Hollywood films.And she played Lucy in Werner Herzog 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 frustrated woman going mad. In 1983, she won the César, for her depiction of a vengeful woman in the French blockbuster One Deadly Summer.
In 1989, she co-produced and starred in a biopic of the tragic French 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 French composer Jean Michel Jarre, but they broke up publicly in 2004.In 1987, some French media outlets incorrectly reported that she was dying of AIDS, forcing her to appear on television to deny it.
During the shoot of "The story of Adèle H." by and with François Truffaut on this images (01/1975).All images © "Truffaut par Truffaut" written by Dominique Rabourdin, Editions du Chêne 1985
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My god, she's still so flawless. *sigh* I love the combination of those limpid blue eyes and cameo-like features.
I am sorry to disagree with the fans, but I think Isabelle Adjani is one of the actresses that has aged the least gracefully. She has never accepted aging and started cosmetic treatments so early in her career that it ruined it and she pretty much started getting roles where she parodied herself. An article in (I think) ta 1995 American Vogue already mentioned that at 40, she insisted on continuing playing ingenues. If you compare her career to that of her contemporary Isabelle Huppert, you can really see the difference. Have you ever seen Isabelle Adjani with one single wrinkle, one small furrow between her eyebrows ? Her face has become completely expressionless. It was pitiful reading a recent interview in which she complained that no "creative" director would dare approach her and give her a challenging role because she had been put on a pedestal and they were too intimidated and she wanted to work more. Well, they flock to Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, and others, for those types of roles. Isabelle Adjani is caught in a time warp where she thinks looks are everything, sort of 40's studio style. What a waste of talent ! She could have been a writer too, she has a unique way with words, always has had, even in her teens. They say it's from her familiarity with psychoanalysis, and I keep her quotes because they are so original. I wish I had started collecting her interviews from the beginning.
