Emerging from a bilingual Parisian upbringing-her father an Algerian veteran and her mother a German immigrant-Adjani entered amateur theater at twelve, later joining the Comédie-Française in 1972 where her portrayal of Agnès in Molière’s L’École des femmes earned critical praise before she turned to cinema. Her breakthrough came with Truffaut’s The Story of Adèle H., which secured her a historic…
