MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
French nationality
Birth November 22, 1993 (Paris, France)
BIOGRAPHY
Daughter of a guitar teacher and a nurse, Adèle Exarchopoulos took theater lessons from childhood. The first time we spotted her in the cinema was in Jane Birkin ‘s autobiographical film , Boxes (2006): she played the role of the youngest child in the family, clearly inspired by Lou Doillon . Like her mother, she could also sing “Di doo di doo daj, I have something of a tomboy” , when we think of her roles as a kid who is not afraid of eyes in The Children of Timpelbach , Tête de Turc or, on a more serious register, La Rafle .
In 2011, Adèle Exarchopoulos was one of the 30 hopefuls of French cinema selected by the Académie des César. Then, it was the consecration with La Vie d’Adèle (2013) by Abdellatif Kechiche . She landed her role, that of a teenager who awakens to love and sexuality thanks to another young girl, after a very long casting process. Between the long dialogue sequences, the tears, the very explicit sex scenes, she agreed to give everything to the demanding Kechiche. His on-screen partner, Léa Seydoux , will not hesitate to denounce the director’s practices. For this role, Adèle Exarchopoulos received 19 awards including the Chopard Trophy and the Cannes Palme d’Or (shared with Léa Seydoux and Abdellatif Kechiche, a first in the history of the festival), as well as the César for Most Promising Actress.
Obviously, this film marks a turning point in his career and the offers are flowing. In 2014, Adèle Exarchopoulos headlined the drama Qui Vive by Marianne Tardieu , alongside the very fashionable Reda Kateb . The following year, she opposite another actor in A Prophet in the person of Tahar Rahim , being part of a group of anarchists in front of Elie Wajeman ‘s camera .
One of the most sought-after actresses in France, Adèle Exarchopoulos plays an inmate who a prison director falls in love with in Eperdument and the heroine of Orpheline at one of the four ages of her life. She also rubs shoulders with Sean Penn and Charlize Theron in the very poorly received The Last Face and engages in an intense romantic passion with the robber Matthias Schoenaerts in The Faithful . In 2019,Virginie Efira .
2021 marks a turning point for the actress. She is starring in one of the biggest hits of the year with the controversial and muscular Bac Nord by Cédric Jimenez , which follows a gang of cops in the northern districts of Marseille . But above all she has the opportunity to show a new side of her game, more comical, with Mandibles by Quentin Dupieux and the series La Flamme on Canal+. In the first, which earned her a nomination for the César for Best Supporting Actress, she plays a young woman who cannot speak without shouting since she was the victim of a skiing accident. In La Flamme, which parodies dating reality TV shows like The Bachelor , she is one of Jonathan Cohen ‘s suitors , who underwent a monkey heart transplant.
A role that she will reprise in 2022 in Le Flambeau, les aventuriers de Chupacabra , which this time tackles Survivor and Koh-Lanta . She continues to flourish in this burlesque register with Fumer fait to cough by Dupieux. The same year, she starred in two dramas: the enigmatic and fantastic Les Cinq Diables , and the disillusioned Rien à foutre . Her performance as a flight attendant in a low-cost airline earned her a nomination for the César for best actress.
