Adèle Exarchopoulos

Adèle Exarchopoulos is a French actress who achieved international acclaim for her breakout role as Adèle in the 2013 romance film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle). At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, she became the youngest person in history to be awarded the Palme d'Or, sharing the honor with her co-star Léa Seydoux and director Abdellatif Kechiche. Her performance also earned her the César Award for Most Promising Actress, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and the Trophée Chopard for Female Revelation of the Year.

Exarchopoulos was born on 22 November 1993 and raised in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, near the Place des Fêtes. Her mother is a French nurse, and her father is a French restaurant manager, film producer, and president of 1660 Productions. She has Greek ancestry through her paternal great-grandfather. She was discovered by an agent in 2006 and made her television debut in an episode of the police series R.I.S, police scientifique, followed by her feature film debut in the 2007 movie Boxes at age thirteen.

Throughout her early career, Exarchopoulos appeared in several films, including Les Enfants de Timpelbach, The Round Up, Turk's Head, Chez Gino, Carré blanc, Pieces of Me, and I Used to Be Darker. Following her breakthrough in Blue Is the Warmest Colour, she took on roles in period and contemporary dramas. She played an aspiring teacher in Les Anarchistes, which premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and appeared in Sean Penn's The Last Face and Arnaud des Pallières' Drama Orphan in 2016.

Her subsequent projects included starring opposite Matthias Schoenaerts in the 2017 Belgian drama Racer and the Jailbird, portraying socialite Clara Saint in Ralph Fiennes' biographical film The White Crow in 2018, and appearing in Justine Triet's comedy-drama Sibyl in 2019. In 2020, she starred in Quentin Dupieux's comedy Mandibles, earning a nomination for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Exarchopoulos continued to gain critical recognition with her role in the 2021 drama Zero Fucks Given, which earned her a nomination for the César Award for Best Actress. She subsequently starred in the fantasy drama The Five Devils, which premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and the 2023 romance Passages. That same year, she won her second César Award, taking home Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the French drama All Your Faces. In 2024, she voiced the character Ennui in the Pixar animated feature Inside Out 2.