Isabelle Yasmine Adjani was born in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris, to Emma Augusta "Gusti" (Schweinberger) and Mohammed Adjani. Her father was a Kabyle Algerian, from Iferhounène, and her mother was a Bavarian German. She grew up speaking German fluently. After winning a school recitation contest, she began acting in amateur theater by the age of twelve. At the age of 14, she starred in her first motion picture, Le Petit Bougnat (1970). Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Award for Best Actress (5), which she won for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983) (aka "One Deadly Summer"), Camille Claudel (1988), Queen Margot (1994) (aka "Queen Margot") and Skirt Day (2008) (aka "Skirt Day"). She was also given a double Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1981. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She performs in French, English, Italian and German. Adjani was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2010. Isabelle Adjani is a French film actress and singer. She is one of the most acclaimed French actresses of all time and is the only actress or actor in history to win five César Awards. She is best known for The Story of Adèle H. (1975), The Driver (1978), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Possession (1981), Camille Claudel (1988) and Queen Margot (1994). Adjani first son was in 1979 with the cinematographer Bruno Nuytten, and in 1995 she had another son with Daniel Day-Lewis. For The Story of Adèle H. (1975), Adjani was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress, making her the youngest woman nominated for best actress in a leading role at the time. In 1988, she co-produced and starred in a biopic of the sculptor Camille Claudel. She received her second Oscar nomination for her role in the film, becoming the first French actress to receive two Oscar nominations. The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her film debut was Le Petit Bougnat (1970). She also speak German fluently. Not yet 14 years old when she shot her first film, Le Petit Bougnat (1970), it was at the Comédie-Française that Adjani rose to fame: entering it at the age of 17, she became the youngest boarder to have ever been hired. Shortly after, Adjani departs to concentrate on her filming career. She performed in 1974 in La Gifle, which caught the attention of director François Truffaut. He immediately casted her in L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (1975) and offered her her first major role. Adjani, who was only 19 at the time of filming, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress, which made her, at the time, the youngest nominee in history. She was awarded the Palme for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in James Ivory's Quartet, based on the novel by Jean Rhys, and in Possession, by Zulawski. A year later, she won her first César, again for Possession. Her second César, in 1983, was awarded to her for her performance in Jean Becker's The Murderous Summer. Also in 1983, she co-wrote and performed with Serge Gainsbourg the album Pull Marine, which has sold over a million copies. In 1988 she co-produced and was the lead actress in Camille Claudel, a film based on a biography of sculptor Camille Claudel, which earned her her third Caesar and her second nomination at the Oscars. Directed by Bruno Nuytten, Camille Claudel was also nominated for the Oscars in the category of Best Foreign Film. Isabelle Adjani's fourth Cesar is awarded to her for La Reine Margot, a historical drama by Patrice Chéreau (1994) and her fifth, for The Day of the Skirt (2009)