ACTOR
Adèle Haenel
- Known for
- 120 battements par minute (2017), Naissance des pieuvres (2007), En liberté! (2018), Un peuple et son roi (2018)
17 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
Adèle Haenel is an actor best known for 120 battements par minute, Naissance des pieuvres and En liberté!.
All facts (17)
- #001
Adèle Haenel was in a relationship with director Céline Sciamma.
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Haenel's French mother is a teacher, and her Austrian father is a translator.
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Among the actresses who inspired her are Sandrine Kiberlain, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman.
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Haenel holds a high school diploma in economics and sociology; she later studied physics and marine biology.
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She holds a green belt in judo.
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Haenel is one of three non-Belgian actors to have played the lead in a film directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne since I'm Thinking of You (1993); the other two are Arta Dobroshi in Lorna's Silence (2008) and Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night (2014). She starred in The Unknown Girl (2016), which was originally conceived as a Dardenne–Cotillard collaboration.
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She is a vocal feminist.
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Haenel first met Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne at a party in Paris, shortly after receiving the annual Suzanne Bianchetti Prize for most promising French actress (June 2014). The lead role of Dr. Jenny Davin in The Unknown Girl (2016) was initially intended for an older actress, but they decided to change the character's age so that Adèle could play her.
- #009
She trains in football, swimming, horse riding, rugby, cycling and boxing.
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In her youth she took stage acting classes.
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She has named Jim Carrey as her first on-screen love.
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She was initially attached to Summertime (2015) and The Innocents (2016), but ultimately withdrew from both projects and was replaced by Izïa Higelin and Lou de Laâge respectively.
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She shot a scene for The Confession of a Child of the Century (2012), but it was ultimately cut from the film's final edit.
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She is a fan of Dany Boon and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
- #015
She was cast in a 2016 stage production of Harold Pinter's "Old Times" at the Atelier Theatre. The play opened on the Paris stage in 1971, with actress Delphine Seyrig personally obtaining the playwright's permission and leading the cast of the original production. Adèle was the first choice to play the character Delphine Benchiessa in Catherine Corsini's Summertime (2015), a role the director named and partly modelled on the late actress.
- #016
She worked with Vincent Rottiers in The Devils (2002) and with her stepbrother Kévin Azaïs in Love at First Fight (2014).
- #017
She has stated an interest in working with Joachim Lafosse, Bouli Lanners and Felix van Groeningen.
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