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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess
2025
as Mona
France, 1963. Since she was a child, Natacha has dreamed of freedom and adventure. Her dream has a name: air hostess. She admires the women who fly th...

Wingwomen
2023
as Marraine
Tired of life on the run, a pro thief decides to retire — but not before one easy last job with her partner in crime and a feisty new getaway driver.

Goodbye Vinyle
2023
as Eve Faugère
Late 1950s in France. One woman, two men. She, Ève Faugère, a glamorous diva at the peak of her career. The man, her husband, Maurice Faugère, an imme...

Dammi
2023
as Cabaret Performer
Returning to Paris, a man moves through memories of his past and surreal fragments of the present, searching for connection with his estranged father....

L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
as Self (archive footage)
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of ...

Masquerade
2022
as Martha Duval
Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Marg...

Peter von Kant
2022
as Sidonie
Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidon...

Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
2022
as Self

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
as Self (archive footage)
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions wa...

Sisters
2021
as Zorah
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their fath...

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
2019
as Self - Actress (voice) (archive footage)
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Dani...

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2019
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered...

The World Is Yours
2018
as Danny
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother...

La Folie Disneyland Paris : L'Anniversaire des 25 ans du Parc
2017
as Self

Carole Matthieu
2016
as Carole Matthieu
Isabelle Adjani is Carole Matthieu – a workplace physician employed in a call centre who has become emotionally involved in the suffering of her humil...

Carole Matthieu
2016
Associate Producer
Isabelle Adjani is Carole Matthieu – a workplace physician employed in a call centre who has become emotionally involved in the suffering of her humil...

Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood
2015
as Self (archive footage)

French Women
2014
as Lily
A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, children. Every girl has their complexes and virtues. Th...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Ishkq in Paris
2013
as Marie
Akash and Ishkq meet on a train from Rome to Paris and spend a romantic evening in the city.
Isabelle Adjani, 2 or 3 Things We Don't Know about Her...
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary that retraces Isabelle Adjani's life and career.

David et Madame Hansen
2012
as Madame Hansen-Bergmann
David is an occupational therapist who has recently arrived at a clinic for wealthy patients. One morning, he is entrusted with Madame Hansen-Bergmann...

Force
2011
as Commandant Clara Damico
Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander Clara Damico to neutralize a particularly organize...

Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1
2011
as Self (archive footage)
The naked floodgates burst open in the Saucy 70s and the 80s continued the trend. Welcome to the 80s, Jerry Falwell, Reagan conservatism, VCRs, pay tv...

Aïcha : Job à tout prix
2011
as Doctor Assoussa

Mammuth
2010
as L'amour perdu de Serge
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is d...

Gainsbourg and His Girls
2010
as Self - Singer (archive footage)
Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his life: Juliette Gréco, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, ...

Skirt Day
2008
as Sonia Bergerac
A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.

Figaro
2008
as La Comtesse Rosine
Seville, 1766. Count Almaviva falls in love with a young woman called Rosina, who lives under the tutelage of the old doctor Bartolo. Thanks to the he...

To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...
Les enfants du soleil
2004
as Voix Off

Words in Progress
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.

Monsieur Ibrahim
2003
as The Star
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood,...

Bon Voyage
2003
as Viviane Denvers
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impa...

Adolphe
2002
as Ellénore
Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially repels her y...

The Repentant
2002
as Charlotte / Leïla
A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up...

Heart of the Festival
2002
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.

Paparazzi
1998
as Isabelle Adjani
Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.

Diabolique
1996
as Mia Baran
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body...

One Hundred and One Nights
1995
as Self - in Cannes
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all ...

Queen Margot
1994
as Margot
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble ...

Toxic Affair
1993
as Pénélope
In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast ar...

Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet
1990
as Narrator (voice)
The life of the Tibetan people, forty years after the Chinese invasion. Filmed in Amdo and Kham, regions forgotten by the world and absolutely forbidd...

Camille Claudel
1988
as Camille Claudel
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin driv...

Camille Claudel
1988
Producer
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin driv...

Ishtar
1987
as Shirra Assel
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the ...

You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
1986
as Isabelle
Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque, presenting a contrast between the famous sta...

Subway
1985
as Helena
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen so...

One Deadly Summer
1983
as Eliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone no...

Deadly Circuit
1983
as Catherine Leiris / Lucie Brentano / Ève Granger / Dorothée Ortis / Ariane Chevalier / Charlotte Vincent
A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

Antonieta
1982
as Antonieta Rivas Mercado
Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who kil...

The Last Horror Film
1982
as Isabelle Adjani (uncredited)
A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's ...

All Fired Up
1982
as Pauline Valance
Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take a...

Quartet
1981
as Marya 'Mado' Zelli
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.

Next Year If All Goes Well
1981
as Isabelle
Isabelle and Maxime are a pair of lighthearted lovers -- that is, until Isabelle gets the itch for motherhood. When she confesses her desire for a chi...

Possession
1981
as Anna / Helen
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he susp...

Clara and Chics Types
1981
as Clara
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in...

The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
as Self
Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.

The Bronte Sisters
1979
as Emily Brontë
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters wri...

Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
as Lucy Harker
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a prope...

The Driver
1978
as The Player
The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful...

The Lorry
1977
Script Supervisor
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasio...

Violette & Francois
1977
as Violette Clot
Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal.

Mosaïque
1976
as Self
Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries of ori...

Barocco
1976
as Laure
A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.

The Tenant
1976
as Stella
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

The Story of Adele H.
1975
as Adèle Hugo
Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of En...

Ondine
1975
as Ondine
In the forest, knight-errant Hans meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man.

Ariane
1974
as Ariane
A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.

The Slap
1974
as Isabelle Douléan
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.

L'avare
1974
as Marianne
Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante, his son,...

L'École des femmes
1973
as Agnès
Arnolphe plans to marry Agnès, his ward, a naive and submissive young girl, whom he keeps recluse in a convent. His plans are threatened when Horace c...

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1972
as Camille
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two broth...

Le Petit Bougnat
1970
as Rose
When the long awaited departure day arrives, le Petit Bougnat, a child coal merchant eager to go to summer camp, realizes that his mother forgot to re...