Known for Acting
Adèle Haenel (born 11 February 1989) is a French actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two César Awards from seven nominations and one Lumières 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 César Award nomination for her performance in Water Lilies (2007), which also marked the beginning of her long professional and personal relationship with director Céline Sciamma. In 2014, Haenel received her first César Award for her supporting role in Suzanne, and in 2015 won the César 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Adèle Haenel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
February 11, 1989 (age 37)
Birthplace
Paris, France
Filmography
37 films, 2 shows


Tutti Frutti
2026 · 40m
country: France
Since 2022, Céline Sciamma has been shooting her own footage: documentary archives born from the desire of a useful camera. Fiction, for its part, has once again become a dream. Tutti Frutti is a journey through all these fragments brought together by editing, and an exploration of the hope of a solo filmmaking practice.


Returning to Reims
2022 · 1h 24m
country: France
An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.


Regard Noir
2021 · 1h 15m
country: France
Across the world, from Paris to Los Angeles via the steps of the Cannes festival, actress and director Aïssa Maïga questions the way black women are represented on-screen and how diversity is promoted.


Heroes Don't Die
2020 · 1h 25m
country: Belgium
A street in Paris. A stranger thinks he is recognized in Joachim a soldier who died in Bosnia on August 21st, 1983, the very day Joachim was born.


Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019 · 2h 1m
country: France
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.


Deerskin
2019 · 1h 17m
country: Belgium
A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.


The Trouble with You
2018 · 1h 48m
country: France
Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events.


One Nation, One King
2018 · 2h 1m
country: France
„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly. At the heart of the story lie the fate of the king and the birth of the French Republic.


BPM (Beats per Minute)
2017 · 2h 23m
country: France
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.


Orphan
2017 · 1h 51m
country: France
A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.


The Bloom of Yesterday
2017 · 2h 4m
country: Austria
An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.


The Unknown Girl
2016 · 1h 46m
country: Belgium
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can't identify the young woman.


Nocturama
2016 · 2h 11m
country: Belgium
Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.


Ogres
2016 · 2h 18m
country: France
There's drama aplenty for the travelling theatre company Chekhov Cabaret. The actors share the good times and the bad as a nomadic tribe where work and private life always mingle. They don’t mince words, these obstreperous actors with a sardonic sense of humour. Theatre always comes first.


The Forbidden Room
2015 · 1h 59m
country: Canada
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
Truffaut au présent
Truffaut au présent
2014 · 33m
country: France
Truffaut au présent is a film divided in three shorts; throughout "Acteurs", "Actrices" and "Couples" we explore François Truffaut's legacy and influence on contemporary French cinema.


Love at First Fight
2014 · 1h 38m
country: France
Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse. Intrigued and excited by Madeleine’s wild ideas, Arnaud signs up for the boot camp himself. They soon realize that the boot camp is harder than they’d imagined, but the experience nonetheless cements them together as the couple continues to explore their young love.


In the Name of My Daughter
2014 · 2h 2m
country: France
In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.


Le rêve de Camille
2014
country: France


Suzanne
2013 · 1h 30m
country: Belgium
The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.


Three Worlds
2012 · 1h 40m
country: France
Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’ daughter, along with succeeding him as the head of a car dealership. One night, while coming back from his bachelor party, he is guilty of a hit-and-run accident, urged by his two childhood friends present in the car. The next day, gnawed with guilt, Al decides to inquire about his victim. What he does not know is that Juliette, a young woman, has witnessed the entire accident from her balcony.


An Hour with Alice
2012 · 13m
country: France
Alice and Paul both study at the Sorbonne University in the Latin Quarter. After a course, Paul, who is attracted to Alice, starts talking with her. They share the same ideas about philosophy and today's philosophers but while they go on with their conversation they realize that as far as cinema is concerned they are not at all on the same wavelength


Aliyah
2012 · 1h 30m
country: France
Paris 2011. Alex is 27. He lives off dealing and pays the debts of his brother, Isaac, who after being his support has now become dead weight. When his cousin announces he's going to open a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex imagines he can join him and change his life. Set on emigrating, Alex has to find money, leave his beloved Paris, end his complicated love life, drop his destructive brother and find his way.


La Mouette
2012 · 3h 48m
country: France
A French adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull", staged by Arthur Nauzyciel.


Folks
2012 · 19m
country: France
Through this short window open on a two days into the life of the characters you have to guess who they are and from where they have come from. There is this lonely male character, mostly pathetic, this bored women in the middle of a painful lame life, this naive actress in search of her soul mate.


House of Pleasures
2011 · 2h 6m
country: France
The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.


Goldman
2011 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
As a veteran of the Latin-American guerilla wars, Pierre Goldman became a mythical figure of the French protest movement of the '60s.


Children of the Night
2011 · 25m
country: France
Spring 1944. «Some love stories seem self-evident. Perhaps they were unaware of its fatal outcome. In any case, it was inevitable.» Coming from a family of Resistance fighters, Henriette lives the inconceivable : she falls in love with Josef, a young German soldier. Marcel, her friend since childhood, secretly in love with her, discovers their romance and joins the maquis the day before the Liberation. When he will come back, he will not be alone anymore, and they will wear the armband of the FFI.


Iris in Bloom
2011 · 1h 13m
country: France
An 18-year-old beauty develops an attraction to an older photographer.


Heat Wave
2011 · 1h 32m
country: France
One hot afternoon in the south of France, several paths are converging towards a tragic conclusion. Those involved are: Stéphane and Luigi, two cousins who have just emerged from adolescence; Georges, a retired old man; Amélie, Luigi’s girlfriend; and Amélie’s mother Anne. Little do they know how their lives, scarred by fear, humiliation and weariness, will become intertwined and propel them to a terrible outcome...


Les grandes forêts
2010 · 26m
country: France
Lise picks Gilles up in a forest to take him to the border.


Déchaînées
2009 · 1h 30m
country: Switzerland
Lucy, a 19-year old law student and intern at a Swiss television network in Geneva, comes across her double in archival footage about the woman’s liberation movement in the 70’s. Her family’s resistance to talk about this time convinces Lucy that a secret lurks behind this mysterious woman, named Geneviève.


Pauline
2009 · 8m
country: France
A young woman chronicles her childhood of neglect and isolation.


Le bel esprit
2008 · 5m
country: France
A short film about three women experimenting with the paranormal.


The Solitudes
2008 · 5m
country: France
A woman responds to several prompts while facing a camera.


Water Lilies
2007 · 1h 25m
country: France
Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.


The Devils
2002 · 1h 45m
country: Spain
The story of the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.