Editing Isabelle Adjani (section)

==Acting career==
[[File:Isabelle Adjani Césars 2010.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Adjani at the [[35th César Awards]], 27 February 2010]]
[[File:Isabelle Adjani 21102011103900.jpg|thumb|right|Adjani at the Hôtel Amour, 2012]]

At the age of 14, Adjani starred in her first motion picture, ''{{ill|Le Petit Bougnat|fr}}'' (1970).<ref>{{IMDb name|0000254}}</ref> She first gained fame as a classical actress at the [[Comédie-Française]], which she joined in 1972. She was praised for her interpretation of Agnès, the main female role in [[Molière]]'s ''[[L'École des femmes]].'' She soon left the theatre to pursue a film career.

After minor roles in several films, she enjoyed modest success in the 1974 film ''La Gifle'' (''The Slap''), which [[François Truffaut]] saw. He immediately cast her in her first major role in ''[[The Story of Adele H.|The Story of Adèle H.]]'' (1975), a project that he had finished writing five years prior but had waited to cast the right actress for the part. Critics unanimously praised her performance,<ref name=People/> with the American critic [[Pauline Kael]] describing her acting talents as "prodigious".<ref>{{Cite book|first=Pauline |last=Kael |year=1980|title=[[When the Lights Go Down (book)|When The Lights Go Down]] |publisher=Henry Holt & Co. |isbn=0-03-042511-5}}</ref>

Only 19 when she made the film, Adjani was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role]], becoming the [[List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees#Youngest nominees 3|youngest Best Actress]] nominee at the time (a record she held for almost 30 years). She quickly received offers for roles in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles, California|Hollywood]] films, such as [[Walter Hill (director)|Walter Hill]]'s 1978 crime thriller ''[[The Driver]]''. She had previously turned down the chance to star in films like ''[[The Other Side of Midnight (film)|The Other Side of Midnight]].'' She had described Hollywood as a "city of fiction" and said, "I'm not an American. I didn't grow up with that will to win an award." Truffaut on the other hand said, "France is too small for her. I think Isabelle is made for American cinema."<ref name="People" /> She agreed to make ''The Driver'' because she was an admirer of Hill's first film ''[[Hard Times (1975 film)|Hard Times]]''. Adjani said:
<blockquote>I think he is wonderful, very much in the tradition of [[Howard Hawks]], lean and spare. The story is contemporary but also very stylized, and the roles that Ryan and I play are like Bogart and Bacall. We are both gamblers in our souls and we do not show our emotions or say a lot. For us, talk is cheap. I am really quite a mysterious girl in this film, with no name and no background. And I must say that it is restful not to have a life behind me; this way, I don't have to dig deep to play the part. All I know is that life for me is gambling and I am a loser. I have what people call a poker face.<ref>{{cite news |title=At the Movies: Isabelle Adjani Finds Poker Easy; Cheating Takes Practice |last=Flatley |first=Guy |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 August 1977 |page=C7 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/12/archives/at-the-movies-isabelle-adjani-finds-poker-easy-cheating-takes.html }}</ref></blockquote>
The film was seen more than 1.1 million times in Adjani's native France but did not do as well in the US.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=7806|title=The Driver (1978)- JPBox-Office|last=JP}}</ref>

She played Lucy in the German director [[Werner Herzog]]'s 1979 remake of ''[[Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht|Nosferatu]]'' which was well-received critically and performed well at box offices in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079641/business|title=Nosferatu the Vampyre|date=17 January 1979|via=IMDb}}</ref> Roger Ebert loved the film, calling Herzog's casting of Adjani one of his "masterstrokes" in the film. He wrote that she "is used here not only for her facial perfection but for her curious quality of seeming to exist on an ethereal plane."<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Nosferatu the Vampyre Movie Review (1979)|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-nosferatu-the-vampyre-1979|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|publisher=[[Sun-Times Media Group]]|access-date=3 November 2013|date=24 October 2011}}</ref> The cast and the crew filmed both English- and German-language versions simultaneously upon request of [[20th Century Fox]], the American distributor,<ref name="horrordvds">{{cite web | url=http://www.horrordvds.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=394 | title=Nosferatu | publisher=horrordvds.com | access-date=29 May 2008}}</ref> as Kinski and Bruno Ganz could act more confidently in their native language.

In 1981, she received a double [[Cannes Film Festival]]'s [[Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Actress award]] for her roles in the [[Merchant Ivory]] film ''[[Quartet (1981 film)|Quartet]],'' based on the novel by [[Jean Rhys]], and in the horror film ''[[Possession (1981 film)|Possession]]'' (1981). The following year, she received her first [[César Award]] for ''Possession'', in which she had portrayed a woman having a [[nervous breakdown]].

In 1983, she won her second César for her depiction of a vengeful woman in the French blockbuster ''[[L'été meurtrier|One Deadly Summer]]'', and starred with [[Michel Serrault]] in the black diamond thriller ''[[Deadly Circuit]]'' directed by [[Claude Miller]]. That same year, Adjani released the French pop album [[Pull marine (Isabelle Adjani album)|''Pull marine'']], written and produced by [[Serge Gainsbourg]]. She then starred in a music video for the hit title song, ''Pull Marine'', which was directed by [[Luc Besson]].

Adjani also drew controversy at the [[1983 Cannes Film Festival]] when she refused to attend a traditional photocall after the press conference for ''One Deadly Summer''. Adjani was annoyed at the time by the intrusion of photographers into her private life. The photographers in Cannes boycotted Adjani upon her arrival on the red carpet for the premiere, at which point they put down their cameras and turned their backs to her.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Dominguez|first=Klhoé|date=6 May 2018|title=Retour sur... Isabelle Adjani boycottée par les photographes à Cannes|url=https://madame.lefigaro.fr/celebrites/photos-isabelle-adjani-boycottee-par-les-photographes-tapis-rouge-festival-de-cannes-1983-170517-132288|magazine=[[Madame Figaro]]|language=fr|access-date=14 March 2024}}</ref>

In 1988, she co-produced and starred in a biopic of the sculptor ''[[Camille Claudel (film)|Camille Claudel]]''. She received her third César and second Oscar nomination for her role in the film, becoming the first French actress to receive two Oscar nominations. The film was also nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]].

She received her fourth César for the 1994 film ''[[La Reine Margot (1994 film)|Queen Margot]]'', an ensemble epic directed by [[Patrice Chéreau]].  She received her fifth César for ''[[Skirt Day]]'' (2009), the most that any actress has received. The film features her as a middle school teacher in a troubled French suburb who takes her class hostage when she accidentally fires off a gun she found on one of her students. It was premiered on the French Arte channel on 20 March 2009, attaining a record 2.2 million viewers) and then in movie theaters on 25 March 2009.<ref>{{cite web|title=La journée de la jupe|url=http://www.arte.tv/fr/le-film/2468752.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509005958/http://www.arte.tv/fr/le-film/2468752.html|archive-date=9 May 2013}}</ref> The film was her return to the cinema after eight years of absence.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tchat Isabelle Adjani : "Je ne me rends pas compte du temps qui passe"|url=https://www.telerama.fr/cinema/isabelle-adjani-je-ne-me-rends-pas-compte-du-temps-qui-passe,41240.php|access-date=2021-09-15|website=Télérama|date=31 March 2009|language=fr}}</ref>

In 2010, she made an appearance in the social comedy ''[[Mammuth]]'', from directors [[Benoît Delépine]] and [[Gustave Kervern]], and in which she played the phantom of [[Gérard Depardieu]]'s first love.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Saltz|first=Rachel|date=2011-09-30|title=The Joys of Retirement|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/movies/gerard-depardieu-in-mammuth-review.html|access-date=2021-09-15|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The same year, she lent her voice to the character of [[Mother Gothel]] in the French version of the animated film ''[[Tangled]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Raiponce, la princesse aux cheveux d'or|url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/2010/11/16/03002-20101116ARTFIG00546-raiponce-la-princesse-aux-cheveux-d-or.php|access-date=2021-09-15|website=LEFIGARO|date=16 November 2010|language=fr}}</ref> In 2011, she co-starred in ''De Force'', the first film directed by Frank Henry. She embodied the commander Clara Damico, head of the brigade for the repression of banditry.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Isabelle Adjani : Son réalisateur, ex-gangster, évoque son travail avec la star|url=https://www.purepeople.com/article/isabelle-adjani-son-realisateur-ex-gangster-evoque-son-travail-avec-la-star_a86915/1|access-date=2021-09-15|website=www.purepeople.com|language=fr}}</ref>

She became the first French actress to star in a [[Bollywood]] film, playing the mother of [[Preity Zinta]] in the 2013 romantic comedy ''[[Ishkq in Paris]]'', directed by [[Prem Soni]] and alongside [[Shekhar Kapur]].

She joined the comedy ''[[The World Is Yours (film)|The World Is Yours]]'', playing the eccentric Dany, directed by [[Romain Gavras]] alongside [[Vincent Cassel]], which entered into the [[Directors' Fortnight]] during the [[2018 Cannes Film Festival]].

In 2022, she played the movie star Sidonie von Grassenabb in the comedy drama ''[[Peter von Kant]]'', tribute to [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]]'s ''[[The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant]]'', directed by [[François Ozon]] alongside [[Denis Ménochet]], which entered as the opening film into the [[72nd Berlin International Film Festival]].

In 2023, Adjani released her second French pop album ''Bande originale'', written and produced by [[Pascal Obispo]], and arranged by Cécile DeLaurentis. She also joined the Netflix action film ''Wingwomen'', directed by [[Mélanie Laurent]], and then, the Netflix miniseries ''[[The Perfect Couple (TV series)|The Perfect Couple]]'' directed by [[Susanne Bier]], alongside [[Nicole Kidman]] and [[Liev Schreiber]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/nicole-kidman-liev-schreiber-eve-hewson-dakota-fanning-netflix-limited-series-the-perfect-couple-1235570386/|title= Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, Dakota Fanning to Star in Netflix Limited Series 'The Perfect Couple|date= 31 March 2023|publisher=Variety}}</ref>