Adèle Exarchopoulos
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.
Adèle Exarchopoulos
22 November 1993
French
Actress
2006–present
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Early life[edit]
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]
Personal life[edit]
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]