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Isabelle Adjani

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Biography

Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born June 27, 1955) is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Award for Best Actress with five, for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), Queen Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009). She was also given a double Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1981. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She performs in French, English, and German.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Possession

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The King’s Favorite

As Diane de Poitiers

Diabolique

As Mia Baran

Queen Margot

As Margot

One Deadly Summer

As Eliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Hypnotic Gaze

From Woody Allen's comic hypnosis to the chilling mechanics of control, this chain traces cinema's fascination with the mind's susceptibility.

8 films

The Architecture of Obsession: Cinema of the Fixated Mind

Eight films in which a character's consuming fixation drives the narrative, examined through the directorial techniques that externalise interiority: subjective...

8 films

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