French actress (born 1989)
Adele Haenel
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Born
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1989-02-11
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11 February 1989
(age 35)
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Occupation
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Years active
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Adele Haenel
(
French:
[ad?l
en?l]
; born 11 February 1989
[1]
[2]
[3]
) is a French actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two
Cesar Awards
from seven nominations and one
Lumieres Award
from two nominations.
Haenel began her career as a child actress, making her film debut with
Les Diables
(2002) at the age of 12, and quickly rose to prominence in the French entertainment industry as a teenager. She received her first Cesar Award nomination for her performance in
Water Lilies
(2007), which also marked the beginning of her long professional and personal relationship with director
Celine Sciamma
. In 2014, Haenel received her first Cesar Award for her supporting role in
Suzanne
, and in 2015 won the
Cesar Award for Best Actress
for
Love at First Fight
. She continued to garner recognition for her performances in
BPM (Beats per Minute)
(2017),
The Trouble with You
(2018) and
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(2019).
Early life
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]
Haenel was born on 11 February 1989 in
Paris
.
[1]
[2]
[3]
Her mother is a teacher and her father is a translator.
[4]
She grew up in
Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis
in what she described as "a very left-wing, artistic neighborhood".
She has Austrian heritage through her father and speaks fluent German.
[6]
[7]
Haenel started acting at the age of 5 and was involved in local theatre.
[8]
As a child, Haenel would mimic cartoon characters, particularly the characters of
Tex Avery
.
[9]
Haenel studied economics and social sciences at the
Lycee Montaigne
.
[10]
She had planned to attend
HEC Paris
and took a preparatory course, but ultimately failed the entrance exam.
[7]
Haenel continued her studies in economics and sociology, eventually receiving a master's degree.
[11]
She also pursued studies in physics and marine biology.
[12]
Career
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Haenel made her film debut in 2002 at the age of 12, playing an autistic girl in the
Christophe Ruggia
film
Les Diables
.
[13]
She had been chosen for the lead role after accompanying her brother to the audition.
[14]
After
Les Diables
, Haenel took a five-year break from acting.
[4]
In 2007, she was persuaded by casting director Christel Baras (who had cast her in her film debut) to resume her film career, taking up the part of a
synchronised swimmer
in
Celine Sciamma
's debut feature
Water Lilies
.
[14]
Manohla Dargis
of
The New York Times
highlighted Haenel's performance in an otherwise mixed review of the film, recognizing her as having "the makings of a real star".
[15]
For her role in the film, Haenel was nominated for the
Cesar Award for Most Promising Actress
in 2008.
[16]
In 2012, she was nominated in the same category for
House of Tolerance
(2011),
[17]
a period film directed by
Bertrand Bonello
, in which she played a prostitute at an upscale Parisian brothel at the turn of the twentieth century.
[18]
She also received the
Lumieres Award for Most Promising Actress
along with her co-stars
Celine Sallette
and Alice Barnole.
[19]
Haenel played one of the two sisters in
Katell Quillevere
's
Suzanne
(2013),
[18]
for which she received the
Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actress
.
[20]
In 2014, Haenel starred in the
Thomas Cailley
romantic comedy
Love at First Fight
as Madeleine, a graduate-school dropout and
survivalist
.
[18]
She won the
Cesar Award for Best Actress
for her performance.
[21]
In the same year, Haenel co-starred with
Catherine Deneuve
in
Andre Techine
's crime drama
In the Name of My Daughter
, playing the daughter of a casino owner. Writing for
The Village Voice
, Melissa Anderson compared her performance to that of
Isabelle Adjani
's in the 1970s and '80s, and declared her a worthy successor to Deneuve in French cinema.
[22]
For her roles in both films, Hanael received a
Best Actress
nomination at the
20th Lumieres Awards
.
[23]
In 2016, Haenel made her German language debut in the film
The Bloom of Yesterday
playing the French descendant of German Holocaust survivors.
In the 2017
Robin Campillo
film
BPM (Beats per Minute)
, Haenel portrayed Sophie, a headstrong
HIV/AIDS
activist of the Paris chapter of
ACT UP
.
[18]
She received a nomination for the Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
[24]
Haenel starred in the 2018
Pierre Salvadori
crime comedy
The Trouble with You
, playing a widowed detective based on the
French Riviera
. David Rooney of
The Hollywood Reporter
noted her performance as evoking the "classic screwball heroine", a departure from her usually more serious roles, and complimented her on the "grace and buoyancy" she brought to the character.
[25]
She was again nominated for the
Cesar Award for Best Actress
.
[26]
In 2019, Haenel appeared in three films which played at the
Cannes Film Festival
:
Quentin Dupieux
's
Deerskin
, Aude Lea Rapin's
Heroes Don't Die
, and Celine Sciamma's
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
.
[27]
In
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
, Haenel portrayed Heloise, a young aristocrat in 18th-century
Brittany
who is to be married off to a nobleman from Milan.
The New Yorker
'
s
Richard Brody
took note of her chemistry with co-star
Noemie Merlant
and complimented the actresses for being "relentlessly graceful, endowed with physical aplomb, contemplative insight, and strong emotion".
[28]
A. O. Scott
of
The New York Times
considered Haenel's performance worthy of an Oscar nomination for
Best Actress
,
[29]
and
Bilge Ebiri
of
Vulture
described the climax of the film (which features Haenel) as "one of the finest pieces of acting and one of the most moving images I've seen in eons."
[30]
Haenel was nominated for the
Cesar Award for Best Actress
for her performance, her seventh Cesar nomination.
[31]
Since 2019, Haenel and co-star
Ruth Vega Fernandez
have prepared to perform director
Gisele Vienne
's adaptation of Robert Walser's
L'Etang
(
The Pond
) for theatres in France and Switzerland.
[32]
After performances were repeatedly delayed or cancelled by restrictions necessitated by the
COVID-19 pandemic
,
[33]
[34]
the play made its world premiere at the Theatre Vidy-Lausanne in Switzerland in May 2021.
[35]
Retirement from the film industry
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In May 2022, during an interview for German magazine
FAQ
, Haenel told that she was stepping away from film acting as "I tried to change something from within. [...] I don't want to be part of that anymore”. She cited the industry as "[defending] a capitalist, patriarchal, racist, sexist world of structural inequality. This means that this industry works hand in hand with the global economic order, in which all lives are not equal". Haenel's last project was to be
The Empire
, written and directed by
Bruno Dumont
, but she explained that she left the film as "it was a dark, sexist and racist world that was defended. The script was full of jokes about
cancel culture
and sexual violence. I tried to discuss it with Dumont, because I thought a dialogue was possible. I wanted to believe for the umpteenth time that it was not intentional. But it's intentional. [...] Just as they make fun of the victims, of people in a situation of weakness. The intention was to make a sci-fi film with an all-white cast ? and therefore a racist narrative. I didn't want to support this." Haenel indicated that she was focused on theatre work.
[36]
[37]
In May 2023, Haenel announced her retirement from the film industry in a letter published on French magazine
Telerama
, citing "complacency" over those accused of being sexual predators, including
Gerard Depardieu
,
Roman Polanski
and Dominique Boutonnat.
[38]
Personal life
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In 2014, Haenel
came out
as a lesbian during her Cesar award acceptance speech and acknowledged her relationship with director
Celine Sciamma
, whom she met on the set of
Water Lilies
.
[39]
The couple amicably split in 2018,
[40]
before they began work on
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
.
[41]
Haenel and Sciamma have remained close after the end of their relationship.
[41]
[40]
Haenel identifies as a
feminist
.
[4]
She is a prominent face of France's
#MeToo
movement,
[42]
and was the first prominent actress to speak publicly about abuse within the French film industry.
[43]
In a November 2019
Mediapart
interview, Haenel accused director
Christophe Ruggia
of
sexually harassing
her from the time she was 12 to 15 after casting her in his film
Les Diables
.
[44]
Following the experience, she considered abandoning acting altogether.
[13]
Haenel's account was backed up by many people who had worked on the film and noted Ruggia's inappropriate behaviour towards her, along with letters he had written her at the time proclaiming his love for her.
[45]
As a result, Ruggia was expelled from the Societe des realisateurs de films, the guild for French directors.
[46]
[47]
[48]
Though Haenel had explicitly chosen not to go to the police with her accusations, citing the justice system as "usually condemning so few sexual offenders" and "only one rape out of a hundred" and stating that "the justice ignores us, we ignore the justice",
[49]
the publicity garnered by her interviews about the abuse led the Paris prosecutor's office to announce they were investigating Ruggia.
[47]
Haenel later changed her mind about working with the police and officially filed a complaint against Ruggia in late November 2019.
[50]
In January 2020, the police officially charged Ruggia with sexual aggression against a minor by a person of authority and sexual harassment.
[51]
On 28 February 2020, Haenel,
Celine Sciamma
,
Noemie Merlant
, and
Aissa Maiga
[52]
walked out of the
45th Cesar Awards
ceremony after
Roman Polanski
, who was
convicted of raping thirteen-year old Samantha Geimer in 1977
, won the award for
Best Director
for his film
An Officer and a Spy
. As Haenel left, she waved her fist and shouted "La honte!" ("Shame!"), and after exiting the auditorium, she was filmed clapping sarcastically and shouting "Bravo la pedophilie!" ("Bravo, paedophilia!").
[53]
Filmography
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Theatre
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Year
|
Production
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Director
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Venue
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2012
|
The Seagull
|
Arthur Nauzyciel
|
Festival d'Avignon
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2013
|
Le Moche / Voir Clair / Perplexe
|
Maia Sandoz
|
Theatre La Generale, Paris
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2016
|
Old Times
|
Benoit Giros
|
Theatre de l'Atelier
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2016
|
The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas
|
Maia Sandoz
|
CDN d'Orleans
|
2018
|
Zai Zai Zai Zai
|
Paul Moulin
|
Ferme du Buisson
|
2021
|
L'Etang
(
The Pond
)
|
Gisele Vienne
|
Theatre Vidy-Lausanne (premiere; various venues in Europe thereafter)
|
2022
|
Le Voyage sans Fin
(Monique Wittig)
|
mise en scene Adele Haenel et
Gisele Vienne
[54]
|
Maison de la Poesie, Paris
|
2023
|
EXTRA LIFE
,
|
Gisele Vienne
|
premiere at Ruhrtriennale Festival der Kunste 2023
[55]
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Bibliography
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Essays
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Awards and nominations
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Haenel retired from the French film industry in 2023, but she is still active in theatre.
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