Adèle Exarchopoulos

Biography of Adèle Exarchopoulos

Adèle Exarchopoulos was born on November 22, 1993 in Paris. She is a French actress. She received the Palme d'Or in 2013 for her role in the film Blue is the Warmest Color together with Léa Seydoux and director Abdellatif Kechiche.

Adèle Exarchopoulos grew up in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. Her father, Didier Exarchopoulos, is a guitar teacher and her mother, Marina Niquet, is a nurse. Her grandfather was Greek. She began acting in theater at the age of nine. She made her television debut in 2006 in the French police series RIS Police scientifique.

In 2007, Exarchopoulos made his cinematic debut in Jane Birkin's autobiographical film Boxes. A year later, she got her first breakthrough with the role of Marianne in the children's film Les Enfants de Timpelbach.

Exarchopoulos finally gained worldwide fame after the premiere of the film Blue Is the Warmest Color in May 2013 at the Cannes Film Festival. In the almost three-hour drama by the French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche, she plays the young Adèle, who enters into a relationship with the artist Emma (Léa Seydoux).

The film, which also ran at the festival under the international title Blue Is the Warmest Colour, was enthusiastically received by audiences and critics and finally received the Palme d'Or from the international jury. For the first time in the history of the festival, the main prize was awarded not only to the director but also to the two leading actresses Seydoux and Exarchopoulos. In 2014, she received the Broadcast Film Critics Association's Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Actress for Blue is the Warmest Color.

Adèle Exarchopoulos was in a relationship with actor Jeremiah Laheurte, who was also her co-star in Blue is the Warmest Color. In 2017, she and partner Morgan Frémont, better known by his rapper name Doums, became parents to a son.