Birth Name: Isabelle Yasmina Adjani
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Date of Birth: 27 June 1955
Ethnicity: Algerian Kabyle (father); German (mother)
Family info: Isabelle Adjani is a French film actress and singer who is a two-time Academy Award nominee.
She was born to a German Catholic mother from Bavaria and an Algerian Muslim father from Iferhounène, Kabylie. Emma Augusta “Gusti” Schweinberger met her father Mohammed Cherif Adjani near the end of World War II, when he was in the French Army. They married and she returned with him to Paris, not speaking a word of French.
Isabelle grew up bilingual, speaking French and German fluently, in Gennevilliers, a northwestern suburb of Paris. She said her parents used their ethnic and cultural differences against each other in arguments. Her mother asked her father to take Cherif as his first name as it sounded more “American”. Gusti also use to say her husband was Turkish because she was ashamed of his Algerian background.
Isabelle Adjani has been vocal against anti-immigrant and anti-Algerian feeling in France.
Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Adjani
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