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Isabelle Adjani (born June 27, 1955) is an
actor|actress and movie producer.

Born Isabelle Yasmine Adjani in Gennevilliers,
Hauts-de-Seine, France, she is the daughter of an
Algerian-Turkey|Turkish father and a
Germany|German mother. 

One of her country's best known actresses, and
recognized worldwide, at a young age Isabelle
Adjani was drawn to acting, playing in amateur
theater by the age of twelve. As a
fourteen-year-old, she appeared in her first
motion picture. After minor roles in several
films, in 1974 she received positive reviews and
much public acclaim for her performance in the
film, La Gifle, (The Slap). The following year she
was cast in her first starring role in François
Truffaut's  film, L'Histoire d'Adele H., (The
Story of Adele H.). For her work, she was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress
bringing offers for roles in Hollywood films.

In 1981 she received the CĂ©sar Award, France's
equivalent of an Academy Award|Oscar, for her role
in Possession (movie)|Possession. In 1983 and 1988
she won the CĂ©sar again. In 1989, she co-produced
and starred in the film Camille Claudel
(movie)|Camille Claudel. She would receive her
fourth CĂ©sar Award and second nomination for an
Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the
film as well as a nomination for Academy Award for
Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language
Film. Following this publicity, she was chosen by
People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful
People in the world.

She has one son,Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis , from her
tempestuous six-year relationship with British
actor Daniel Day-Lewis. The child was born in
1995, several months after Day-Lewis broke off
with the actress via a faxed message. She
reportedly became engaged to French musician Jean
Michel Jarre in 2002, though the couple's
relationship ended in June 2004, when the actress
announced to Paris Match, two months before the
reportedly scheduled marriage, that she had
discovered Jarre was having an affair with the
actress Anne Parillaud. Jarre, for his part,
insisted that he and Adjani had already been
separated for six months and that he never
intended to marry her at any time.

Multi-lingual, Ms. Adjani performs in her native
French language|French language, English
language|English and German language|German.

==Filmography==

* Bon voyage (2003)
* La repentie (2001)
* Paparazzi (1998)
* Diabolique (1996)
* La Reine Margot (1994 movie)|La Reine Margot
(Queen Margot) (1994) (CĂ©sar Award)
* Toxic Affair (1993)
* Lung Ta: Les Cavaliers du Vent (1990)
* Camille Claudel (movie)|Camille Claudel (1988)
(CĂ©sar Award - Oscar nomination)
* Ishtar (movie)|Ishtar (1987)
* Subway (movie)|Subway (1985)
* L'été meurtrier (One Deadly Summer) (1983)
(CĂ©sar Award) 
* Antonieta (1982)
* Mortelle randonnee (Deadly Circuit) (1982)
* L'année prochaine, si tout va bien (Next Year
If All Goes Well) (1981)
* Possession (movie)|Possession (1981) (CĂ©sar
Award)
* Quartet (1981)
* Tout feu, tout flamme (All Fired Up) (1981)
* Clara et les Chics Types (Clara and the Swell
Guys) (1980)
* Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the
Vampyre) (1979)
* Les Soeurs Bronte (The Bronte Sisters) (1979)
* The Driver (1978)
* Barocco (1976)
* Le locataire (The Tenant) (1976)
* Violette et François (1976)
* L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (The Story of Adele H.)
(1975) (Oscar nomination)
* La gifle (The Slap) (1974)
* L'Ă©cole des femmes (1972)
* Faustine (1971)
* Le petit bougnat (1969)

==External links==
* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000254/ The IMDb
entry on Adjani
*http://www.gainsbourg.org/vrsn3/html/disco/interp
retes/interpretes_isabelleadjani.html  A Tribute
to Gainsbourg, Isabelle Adjani interprète