Biography
Adèle Haenel (born 11 February 1989) is a French actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two César Awards from seven nominations and one Lumières Award from two nominations. Haenel began her career as a child actress, making her film debut with Les Diables (2002) at the age of 12, and quickly rose to prominence in the French entertainment industry as a teenager. She received her first César Award nomination for her performance in Water Lilies (2007), which also marked the ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Returning to Reims
2022
as Narrator
An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.

Regard Noir
2021
as Self

Heroes Don't Die
2020
as Alice
A street in Paris. A stranger thinks he is recognized in Joachim a soldier who died in Bosnia on August 21st, 1983, the very day Joachim was born.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019
as Héloïse
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Deerskin
2019
as Denise
A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life ...

The Trouble with You
2018
as Yvonne
Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she t...

One Nation, One King
2018
as Françoise
„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly...

BPM (Beats per Minute)
2017
as Sophie
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharm...

Orphan
2017
as Renee
A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually,...

The Bloom of Yesterday
2017
as Zazie Lindeau
An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse,...

The Unknown Girl
2016
as Jenny Davin
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, af...

Nocturama
2016
as La jeune femme au vélo
Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

Seances
2016
Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a seri...

Ogres
2016
as Mona
There's drama aplenty for the travelling theatre company Chekhov Cabaret. The actors share the good times and the bad as a nomadic tribe where work an...

The Forbidden Room
2015
as Mute Invalid
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they we...
Truffaut au présent
2014
as Self
Truffaut au présent is a film divided in three shorts; throughout "Acteurs", "Actrices" and "Couples" we explore François Truffaut's legacy and influe...

Love at First Fight
2014
as Madeleine Beaulieu
Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who j...

In the Name of My Daughter
2014
as Agnès Le Roux
In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.

Le rêve de Camille
2014

Suzanne
2013
as Maria Merevsky
The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.

Three Worlds
2012
as Marion Testard
Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’ daughter, along with succeeding him as the head of a car dealership. One night, ...

An Hour with Alice
2012
as Alice
Alice and Paul both study at the Sorbonne University in the Latin Quarter. After a course, Paul, who is attracted to Alice, starts talking with her. T...

Aliyah
2012
as Jeanne
Paris 2011. Alex is 27. He's lives off dealing and pays the debts of his brother, Isaac, who after being his support has now become dead weight. When ...

La Mouette
2012
as Macha
A French adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull", staged by Arthur Nauzyciel.

Folks
2012
Through this short window open on a two days into the life of the characters you have to guess who they are and from where they have come from. There ...

House of Pleasures
2011
as Léa
The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some me...

Goldman
2011
as Jeanne
As a veteran of the Latin-American guerilla wars, Pierre Goldman became a mythical figure of the French protest movement of the '60s.

Children of the Night
2011
as Henriette
Spring 1944. «Some love stories seem self-evident. Perhaps they were unaware of its fatal outcome. In any case, it was inevitable.» Coming from a fami...

Iris in Bloom
2011
as Isabelle
An 18-year-old beauty develops an attraction to an older photographer.

Heat Wave
2011
as Amelie
One hot afternoon in the south of France, several paths are converging towards a tragic conclusion. Those involved are: Stéphane and Luigi, two cousi...

Les grandes forêts
2010
Lise picks Gilles up in a forest to take him to the border.

Déchaînées
2009
as Lucie
Lucy, a 19-year old law student and intern at a Swiss television network in Geneva, comes across her double in archival footage about the woman’s libe...

Pauline
2009
as Girlfriend
A young woman chronicles her childhood of neglect and isolation.

Le bel esprit
2008
A short film about three women experimenting with the paranormal.

Les solitudes
2008
A woman responds to several prompts while facing a camera.

Water Lilies
2007
as Floriane
Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for ...

The Devils
2002
as Chloé
The story of the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.