Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

1955-06-27 Paris, France 74 Credits

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.

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Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess

Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess

2025

as Mona

5.7
Acting

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

Wingwomen

2023

as Marraine

6.1
Acting

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

Goodbye Vinyle

2023

as Eve Faugère

5.6
Acting

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

Dammi

2023

as Cabaret Performer

6.3
Acting

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

L'Âge d'or de la pub

2023

as Self (archive footage)

6.5
Acting

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

Masquerade

2022

as Martha Duval

6.8
Acting

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

Peter von Kant

2022

as Sidonie

5.7
Acting

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

Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau

2022

as Self

6.0
Acting
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

2022

as Self (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

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

Sisters

2021

as Zorah

4.9
Acting

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

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

2019

as Self - Actress (voice) (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

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

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

2019

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

6.6
Acting

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

The World Is Yours

2018

as Danny

6.7
Acting

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

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

2017

as Self

6.6
Acting
Carole Matthieu

Carole Matthieu

2016

as Carole Matthieu

5.5
Acting

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

Carole Matthieu

2016

Associate Producer

5.5
Producing

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

Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood

2015

as Self (archive footage)

5.4
Acting
French Women

French Women

2014

as Lily

5.8
Acting

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...

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

as Self (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

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

Ishkq in Paris

2013

as Marie

5.6
Acting

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)

Acting

Documentary that retraces Isabelle Adjani's life and career.

David et Madame Hansen

David et Madame Hansen

2012

as Madame Hansen-Bergmann

5.8
Acting

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

Force

2011

as Commandant Clara Damico

4.6
Acting

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

Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1

2011

as Self (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

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

Aïcha : Job à tout prix

2011

as Doctor Assoussa

5.3
Acting
Mammuth

Mammuth

2010

as L'amour perdu de Serge

5.8
Acting

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

Gainsbourg and His Girls

2010

as Self - Singer (archive footage)

4.1
Acting

Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his life: Juliette Gréco, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, ...

Skirt Day

Skirt Day

2008

as Sonia Bergerac

7.1
Acting

A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.

Figaro

Figaro

2008

as La Comtesse Rosine

7.0
Acting

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

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)

6.5
Acting

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

Acting
Words in Progress

Words in Progress

2004

as Self (archive footage)

4.0
Acting

Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.

Monsieur Ibrahim

Monsieur Ibrahim

2003

as The Star

7.0
Acting

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

Bon Voyage

2003

as Viviane Denvers

6.3
Acting

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

Adolphe

2002

as Ellénore

5.3
Acting

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

The Repentant

2002

as Charlotte / Leïla

5.0
Acting

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

Heart of the Festival

2002

4.0
Acting

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

Paparazzi

Paparazzi

1998

as Isabelle Adjani

5.0
Acting

Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.

Diabolique

Diabolique

1996

as Mia Baran

5.5
Acting

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

One Hundred and One Nights

1995

as Self - in Cannes

6.2
Acting

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

Queen Margot

1994

as Margot

7.2
Acting

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

Toxic Affair

1993

as Pénélope

4.4
Acting

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

Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet

1990

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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

Camille Claudel

1988

as Camille Claudel

6.8
Acting

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

Camille Claudel

1988

Producer

6.8
Producing

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

Ishtar

1987

as Shirra Assel

4.5
Acting

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...

You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...

1986

as Isabelle

5.9
Acting

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

Subway

1985

as Helena

6.5
Acting

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

One Deadly Summer

1983

as Eliane Wieck, aka 'Elle'

6.9
Acting

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

Deadly Circuit

1983

as Catherine Leiris / Lucie Brentano / Ève Granger / Dorothée Ortis / Ariane Chevalier / Charlotte Vincent

6.2
Acting

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

Antonieta

Antonieta

1982

as Antonieta Rivas Mercado

5.2
Acting

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

The Last Horror Film

1982

as Isabelle Adjani (uncredited)

5.3
Acting

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

All Fired Up

1982

as Pauline Valance

5.9
Acting

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

Quartet

1981

as Marya 'Mado' Zelli

5.8
Acting

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

Next Year If All Goes Well

1981

as Isabelle

5.7
Acting

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

Possession

1981

as Anna / Helen

7.3
Acting

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

Clara and Chics Types

1981

as Clara

5.5
Acting

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'

The Making of 'Nosferatu'

1979

as Self

6.3
Acting

Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.

The Bronte Sisters

The Bronte Sisters

1979

as Emily Brontë

5.8
Acting

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

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979

as Lucy Harker

7.3
Acting

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

The Driver

1978

as The Player

7.2
Acting

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

The Lorry

The Lorry

1977

Script Supervisor

6.2

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

Violette & Francois

1977

as Violette Clot

6.1
Acting

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

Mosaïque

Mosaïque

1976

as Self

9.0
Acting

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

Barocco

1976

as Laure

6.0
Acting

A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.

The Tenant

The Tenant

1976

as Stella

7.6
Acting

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.

The Story of Adele H.

1975

as Adèle Hugo

6.9
Acting

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

Ondine

1975

as Ondine

10.0
Acting

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

Ariane

1974

as Ariane

Acting

A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.

The Slap

The Slap

1974

as Isabelle Douléan

6.7
Acting

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

L'avare

1974

as Marianne

Acting

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

L'École des femmes

1973

as Agnès

10.0
Acting

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

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

1972

as Camille

6.1
Acting

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

Le Petit Bougnat

1970

as Rose

6.7
Acting

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...