Isabelle Adjani - French film actress

Isabelle Adjani (born 27 June 1955) is a French film actress and singer. Adjani rose to fame in 1975 for her overwhelmingly lauded performance asAdele Hugo in The Story of Adele H., earning 20 year-old Adjani her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination, making her the youngest nominee ever at the time.

Adjani has appeared in many films since, performing in French, English and German. She holds the record for the most César Awards for Best Actress, having received five: for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983),Camille Claudel (1988), Queen Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009).

Adjani was recognized with a double Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awardfor Possession and Quartet in 1981. She received a Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1989. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. In 2010, she was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.

She received her fourth César for the 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.

In 2011, Adjani was named "The Most Beautiful Woman in Film" by the Los Angeles Times magazine.