French actress
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Born (1993-11-22 ) 22 November 1993 (age 30) Paris, France
Nationality French Occupation Actress Years active 2006–present Children 1
Adèle Exarchopoulos (French pronunciation:
[adɛl ɛɡzaʁkɔpulɔs] ; born 22 November 1993) is a French actress. She is best known for her leading role as Adèle in
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), for which she earned international attention and critical acclaim; at the
2013 Cannes Film Festival , she became the youngest person in the history of the festival to be awarded the
Palme d'Or . For her performance in Blue Is the Warmest Colour , she won the
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress , the
César Award for Most Promising Actress , and the
Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year, among dozens of other accolades.
Early life
Exarchopoulos grew up in the
19th arrondissement of Paris , near the Place des Fêtes.
[1] Her father is a French restaurant manager at the
Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy ,
[2] film producer and president of the company 1660 Productions,
[3]
[4] and her mother is a French nurse.
[2]
[5] Her paternal great-grandfather was Greek.
[2]
[6]
Career
In 2006, Exarchopoulos was spotted by an agent and made her first television appearance in an episode of the French police series
R.I.S, police scientifique . At thirteen, she had a debuting film role in the 2007 film
Boxes .
[1]
[7] She also appeared in the films
Les Enfants de Timpelbach (2008),
The Round Up (2010),
Turk's Head (2010), Chez Gino (2011), Carré blanc (2011), Pieces of Me (2012) and
I Used to Be Darker (2013).
Exarchopoulos at the
2013 Cannes Film Festival
She attracted international attention and critical acclaim for her performance in
Blue Is the Warmest Colour , a 2013 film based on the
2010 French graphic novel of the same name .
[8] The film won the
Palme d'Or at the
2013 Cannes Film Festival . Exarchopoulos and co-star
Léa Seydoux were awarded the Palme d'Or alongside director
Abdellatif Kechiche , becoming the only women apart from director
Jane Campion to have won the award at the time;
[9] Exarchopoulos is the youngest person to ever receive the award.
[10]
Exarchopoulos at the
39th César Awards with her Blue Is the Warmest Colour co-star
Léa Seydoux
She received critical praise and her performance was cited as one of the year's best.
[11]
Indiewire critic Eric Kohn stated that he believed Exarchopoulos' performance was the best female performance of 2013.
[12] Her performance was praised for its "rawness."
[13]
Exarchopoulos discussed her process with
The New York Times , explaining: "Abdellatif tried to keep us close to reality. He asked us to play with our own emotions. For example, I kept my own voice. It’s very subtle, very delicate, the things that are a part of you and the things that are a part of your character". In March 2014, she was in consideration to play
Tiger Lily in
Pan but lost to
Rooney Mara .
[14] She then appeared in
The Last Face alongside
Javier Bardem and
Charlize Theron , directed by
Sean Penn , which premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the
2016 Cannes Film Festival .
[15]
She plays Judith in the 2015 period drama film
Les Anarchistes . She also appeared in
Racer and the Jailbird ,
[16] a film by Belgian film director
Michaël R. Roskam ,
[17] and
Orphan , a French film by
Arnaud des Pallières in 2017.
[18] In 2023 she acted in the
Ira Sachs romance
Passages opposite
Franz Rogowski and
Ben Wishaw . Sachs described her as a cross between
Jeanne Moreau and
Brigitte Bardot .
[19]
In 2024, she will voice Ennui in the
Pixar film
Inside Out 2 .
[20]
Personal life
Exarchopoulos and actor Jérémie Laheurte began dating in 2012 during the filming of Blue Is the Warmest Colour , but they ended their relationship in 2015.
[21]
[22] She and her former partner, French rapper Mamadou Coulibaly, known as
Doums , member of French hip hop collective group
L'entourage , have a son, born in 2017.
[23] They separated in 2017.
[24]
In November 2020, after Blue Is the Warmest Colour director
Abdellatif Kechiche was accused of sexual assault by an unnamed 29-year-old actress, Exarchopoulos spoke about her relationship with the director in an interview with French
Elle magazine: "He's someone I'll love all my life. I think of him often, I hope he is happy. My meeting with him was decisive in my desire to make cinema. Certainly, Abdellatif is a complex being. But it upsets me because I really know him."
[25] Exarchopoulos thanked Kechiche during her speech at the
49th César Awards on 23 February 2024.
[26]
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
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"«Mon père, ma mère, mes frères, mon fils... Vous êtes ce que j'ai de plus précieux» : Adèle Exarchopoulos, la voix qui se brise pour recevoir son César" .
Madame Figaro (in French). 23 February 2024.
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"Elemental, the 27th Film by Pixar Animation Studios, to be the "Last Screening" at the 76th Festival de Cannes" . 19 April 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2024 .
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