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Where Are They Now - October 17, 2014
Hello fans, French actress Isabelle Adjani is a talented lady who has been involved with acting since the age of 12. She has won many accolades for her performances, including five Cesar awards. The Cesar is the national film award of France.
Where is she now? Let's find out...
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Email Melissa *View Past Issues: Where Are They Now Archives*--DEAD OR ALIVE?--See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Paula Prentiss: Appeared in various movies, including "What's New, Pussycat", "Last of the Red Hot Lovers", and "The Stepford Wives"
Jane Alexander: Actress, "Testament" was a career highlight
Bob Hoskins: Starred as Eddie Valiant in the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and also appeared in "Mona Lisa", "Memaids" and many other films
(Answer at the bottom)*Isabelle AdjaniLearn More About Isabelle Adjani on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: June 27, 1955, Paris, France
CLAIM TO FAME: Known for her film role in Possession
FAMILY LIFE: She had a son, Barnabe Nuytten in 1979 with cinematographer Bruno Nuytten. She dated Warren Beatty from 1986-87. From 1989 to 1995, she had a relationship with Daniel Day Lewis, who left before the birth of their son, Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis, in 1995. Adjani was later engaged to the composer Jean Michel Jarre; they broke up in 2004.
INFO: Adjani won a school recitation contest at the age of 12 in amateur theater, and starred in her first motion picture (Le Petit bougnat) at the age of 14. She joined the Comedie francaise in 1972, and won praise for her interpretation of Agnes, the main female role in Molière's L'École des femmes.
Her first major film role came in 1975, when she landed a part in Francois Truffaut's The Story of Adèle H. Adjani was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar and quickly received offers for roles in Hollywood films, such as Walter Hill's 1978 crime thriller The Driver.
In 1981, Adjani received a double Cannes Film Festival's best actress award for her roles in the Merchant Ivory film Quartet, based on the novel by Jean Rhys, and in the horror film Possession (1981).
The following year, she received her first César Award (national film award of France) 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 One Deadly Summer.
In 1988, she received her third Cesar and second Oscar nomination for her role in a biopic of the sculptor Camille Claudel. She was also the co-producer of this film.
TRIVIA: Grew up bilingual, speaking French and German fluently.
Criticized statements by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009 claiming that condoms are not an effective method of AIDS prevention.
Was named "The Most Beautiful Woman in Film" by the Los Angeles Times magazine in 2011.
Recorded a million-selling album in 1983 with the hit single "Pull Marine" written by Serge Gainsbourg.
Born in the 17th district of Paris to an Algerian father and German mother.
Brother is photographer Eric Adjani.
WHERE IS SHE NOW: In 2009, she received her fifth Cesar for Skirt Day, making her the actress who has received the most award of this kind.
She was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) on 14 July 2010 for her artistic contributions.
Adjani has appearances in recent French films, including David et Madame Hansen (2012), Ishkq in Paris (2013) and Sous les jupes des filles (2014).
* CREDITS:2014 Sous les jupes des filles...Lili
2013 Ishkq in Paris...Marie Elise
2012 David et Madame Hansen...Madame Hansen-Bergmann
2011 De force...Commissaire Clara Damico
2011 Aicha (TV Series)...Docteur Assoussa
Job a tout prix (2011)
2010 Mammuth...L'amour perdu de Serge
2008 La journée de la jupe...Sonia Bergerac
2008 Figaro (TV Movie)...Comtesse Almaviva
2003 Monsieur Ibrahim...La star
2003 Bon voyage...Viviane Denvers
2002 Adolphe...Ellénore
2002 The Repentant...Charlotte / Leïla
1999 Bonne Nuit (TV Movie)...Yvette
1996 Diabolique...Mia Baran
1994 Queen Margot...Marguerite de Valois dite La Reine Margot
1993 Toxic Affair...Penelope
1990 Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet...Narrator (voice)
1988 Camille Claudel...Camille Claudel
1987 Ishtar...Shirra Assel
1986 You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (Short)...Isabelle
1985 Subway...Héléna
1984 Pull marine (Short)
1983 One Deadly Summer...Eliane Wieck dite 'Elle'
1983 Deadly Circuit...Catherine Leiris / Lucie Brentano - 'Marie'
1982 Antonieta...Antonieta Rivas Mercado
1982 The Last Horror Film...Isabelle Adjani (uncredited)
1982 All Fired Up...Pauline Valance
1981 Next Year If All Goes Well...Isabelle Maréchal
1981 Possession...Anna / Helen
1981 Quartet...Marya 'Mado' Zelli
1981 Clara et les Chics Types...Clara
1979 Les soeurs Brontë...Emily Brontë
1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre...Lucy Harker
1978 The Driver...The Player
1977 Violette & François...Violette Clot
1976 Barocco...Laure
1976 The Tenant...Stella
1975 The Story of Adele H...Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewly
1975 Ondine (TV Movie)...Ondine
1974 Ariane...Ariane
1974 The Slap...Isabelle Douléan - la fille de Jean et d'Hélène
1974 Le secret des Flamands (TV Movie)...Maria
1974 L'avare (TV Movie)...Marianne
1973 L'école des femmes (TV Movie)...Agnès
1972 Faustine et le bel été...Camille
1970 Le petit bougnat...Rose
To see Then & Now pictures of Isabelle Adjani, visit: Celebrity Nooz*--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--Paula Prentiss - ALIVE
Born: 03/04/1938
Jane Alexander - ALIVE
Born: 10/28/1939
Bob Hoskins - DEAD
Born: 10/26/1942 Died: 04/29/2014
*WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...10/14
Mary Downer, Lady Downer, 89, Australian arts patron.
Dogan Gures, 88, Turkish general and politician.
Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, 38, American keyboardist, heart attack.
10/13
Mark Bell, 43, British musician and house music producer (LFO), complications from surgery.
Sir John Bradfield, 89, British biologist and entrepreneur, founder of Cambridge Science Park.
Antonio Cafiero, 92, Argentine politician, Governor of Buenos Aires (1987-1991), Senator (1993-2005), pneumonia.
José Hernán Sánchez Porras, 70, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Military Ordinariate (since 2001).
Mohammad Sarengat (id), 74, Indonesian sprinter, Asian Games gold medalist (1962), complications from a stroke.
Pontus Segerström, 33, Swedish footballer (IF Brommapojkarna), cancer.
10/12
Tommy Lewis, 83, American football player (Alabama Crimson Tide).
Lojze Logar, 70, Slovenian artist.
Ali Mazrui, 81, Kenyan professor and political writer.
Enrique Santiago Petracchi, 78, Argentine lawyer and judge, member of the Supreme Court (since 1983).
Sir Jocelyn Stevens, 82, English publishing executive.
Roberto Telch, 70, Argentine footballer (San Lorenzo, national team), heart attack.
10/11
Abbas Ali, 94, Indian politician and independence activist.
Anita Cerquetti, 83, Italian soprano.
Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, 75, Israeli basketball player.
Walter Fitzgerald, 78, Canadian politician, Mayor of Halifax (1971-1974, 1994-1996), MLA for Halifax Chebucto (1974-1981).
Jazil, 11, American thoroughbred racehorse, injuries sustained in paddock accident.
Mats Rondin, 54, Swedish cellist and composer, heart attack.
Carmelo Simeone, 81, Argentine footballer (Vélez Sarsfield, Boca Juniors).
Bob Such, 70, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly for Fisher (since 1989), brain tumor.
10/10
Federico Boido, 75, Italian actor and stuntman.
Olav Dale, 55, Norwegian composer and jazz saxophonist.
Damiana Eugenio, Filipino author and professor.
Alfred Haufek (de), 81, Austrian politician, President of the Landtag of Lower Austria (1987-1994).
Richard Kanter, 79, American oboist.
Valeri Karpov, 43, Russian ice hockey player, world champion (1993), head injury.
Lari Ketner, 37, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Indiana Pacers), colon cancer.
Pavel Landovský, 78, Czech actor and dissident, heart attack.
Omar Lares, 87, Venezuelan journalist, heart failure.
Finn Lied, 98, Norwegian military researcher and politician.
Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, 70, New Zealand art historian, curator and academic, pancreatic cancer.
Amildo Morales, 76, Guatemalan politician, MP for Jalapa (since 2012), attacked by a bull.
Ed Nimmervoll, 67, Australian music journalist and author, brain cancer.
Udo Reiter (de), 70, German journalist and author, suicide.
10/9
John Patrick Boles, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular bishop of Nova Sparsa.
Václav Burian (cs), 55, Czech journalist, publicist and translator.
Boris Buzancic, 85, Croatian actor and politician.
Sir Sydney Chapman, 78, English politician and architect, MP for Birmingham Handsworth (1970-1974), Chipping Barnet (1979-2005).
Jan Hooks, 57, American comedienne and actress (Saturday Night Live, Designing Women, Batman Returns).
M. V. Kamath, 93, Indian journalist.
Ana Karic, 73, Croatian actress.
Carolyn Kizer, 89, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, complications of dementia.
Willy Matsanga, Congolese politician.
Ray Metzker, 83, American photographer.
Peter A. Peyser, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House for New York's 25th (1971-1973) and 23rd (1973-1977, 1979-1983) districts, Parkinson's disease.
Tony Priday, 92, English bridge player.
David Rayvern Allen, 76, English cricket historian, cancer.
Merton Sandler, 88, British chemical pathologist.
Style Scott, 58, Jamaican reggae drummer.
Rita Shane, 78, American operatic soprano, pancreatic and liver cancer.
Paul Allen Simmons, 93, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania (since 1978).
Robert Sproull, 96, American educator and physicist.
Trigz (de), 40, American graffiti and tattoo artist (Chris Brown), shot.
10/8
Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, Liberian courier, first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Ebola virus disease.
Morris Lurie, 75, Australian writer, cancer.
Abdul Matin, 87, Bangladeshi language activist (Bengali Language Movement).
Alden E. Matthews, 93, American missionary.
Angelo Mottola, 79, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat.
Helmut Ruge, 74, German comedian, actor, and cabaret writer.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 87, American writer (The Egypt Game), stroke.
Jeen van den Berg, 86, Dutch Olympic speedskater (1956, 1960), winner of the Elfstedentocht (1954).
Mike Waugh, 58, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (1998-2014).
10/7
Walter Bockmayer, 66, German writer and film director, lung cancer.
Cigar, 24, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications of neck surgery for osteoarthritis.
Peter Keller (de), 60, German sports historian and author.
Nika Kiladze, 25, Georgian footballer, traffic collision.
Richard Laws, 88, British zoologist, Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge (1985-1996).
Siegfried Lenz, 88, German writer.
Angus Macleod, 63, British journalist and editor.
Michel Nykiel (es), 56, Polish footballer, drowning.
Félix Padín (es), 98, Spanish soldier and trade unionist.
Brad Stanius, 68, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Ivor Wilks, 86, British historian.
Lou Whitney, 72, American rock musician and studio owner, kidney cancer.
Iva Withers, 97, Canadian-born American theatre actress and singer.