Isabelle Adjani
The Story of Adele H., a film in which Isabelle Adjani delivers a notable performance, stands among the works most closely associated with her career as a film actor.
Adjani was born on 27 June 1955 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. A French citizen, she trained at Cours Florent before developing a career that spans film, television, stage, and music. Her work has drawn on French, German, and English across the course of her professional life.
Among her notable performances are roles in Possession, One Deadly Summer, Subway, La Reine Margot, and Camille Claudel. She received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and the César Award for Best Actress. Beyond acting, Adjani has also worked as a singer and musician. The French state honored her with the Knight of the Legion of Honour and the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
La Reine Margot is among the films in which Adjani has appeared as a notable performer, representing one point in a career conducted across multiple languages and performance disciplines. The César Award for Best Actress marks one of the formal recognitions she has received over the course of her work in film, on stage, and on television.
Quotes by Isabelle Adjani
If you are in a gym class with other women, and even if you are in shape, you feel like, 'Do they think my legs are not right?' Since you are supposed to be the perfect one, they look for the defects. It's such an embarrassment.
Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'
If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre.
Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.
We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.
I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.
American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.
Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the wall and lets in the light.