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name: "Adèle Haenel"
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tmdb_id: 68816
wikidata_id: "Q31353"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 February 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-18T00:04:09.336280+00:00"
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# Adèle Haenel

## Identity

Adèle Haenel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adele-haenel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adele-haenel
- **IMDb ID:** nm1194748
- **TMDB ID:** 68816
- **Wikidata ID:** Q31353
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A8le_Haenel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31353, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1194748/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68816

Actor. Born 11 February 1989 in Paris, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 February 1989, Paris, France
- **Also known as:** 아델 에넬, 아델 하에넬, 阿黛拉·哈内尔, アデル・エネル, ادل هانل
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A8le_Haenel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31353, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1194748/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68816

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Portrait of a Lady on Fire*](https://film.one/film/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire.md) (89)

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## Fi1m on Adèle Haenel

> Adèle Haenel makes looking back as absorbing as being looked at. We rate her for the small changes that make another person’s attention feel intimate, particularly opposite Noémie Merlant in *Portrait of a Lady on Fire*.

In *Portrait of a Lady on Fire* (2019), Adèle Haenel’s Héloïse watches the woman who is studying her. Haenel makes that return of attention active enough to change how we watch Noémie Merlant’s Marianne, the artist. We find ourselves looking for what each has noticed in the other, because their expressions keep affecting the exchange. Haenel gives Héloïse a will of her own without fixing her face into a permanent challenge. It is finely responsive acting, and the tenderness is all the more persuasive because neither performer insists on it.

Her breakthrough came as Floriane in Céline Sciamma’s *Water Lilies* (2007), beginning her collaboration with the director. *Suzanne* (2013) gave her a supporting role; *Love at First Fight* (2014) established her in comedy-drama. *BPM (Beats per Minute)* (2017) then placed her within an ensemble. Independent, rebellious young women recur in her work, but that description can make the acting sound more fixed than it is. With Héloïse, we are watching someone who can be affected by another person.

Sciamma’s pairing of Haenel and Merlant gives that responsiveness room to register. Marianne’s concentration makes the painting seem like work; Héloïse’s answering attention keeps her from becoming merely an object for us to inspect. We felt shy about watching them so closely, because both actors make the effort to understand one another feel private. Haenel does not need to signal a hidden meaning behind every movement of her eyes. We can follow the shifts between them without feeling that we have been set an examination.

At times, though, Sciamma makes the restraint in *Portrait of a Lady on Fire* feel too carefully managed. We become aware of how much attention is being asked of us, and the film could allow itself a little more ease. Haenel and Merlant earn that attention through the tenderness of their exchanges, so the reservation does little to weaken our recommendation. Begin here, with an evening quiet enough to notice what the two actors are doing.

## Biography

Adèle Haenel is a French actress. Born on 11 February 1989 in Paris, she began acting as a child and made her film debut in *Les Diables* (2002).

She received César Award nominations for *Water Lilies* (2007) and won two César Awards: Best Supporting Actress for *Suzanne* (2013) and Best Actress for *Love at First Fight* (2014). Haenel is known for roles in *BPM (Beats per Minute)* (2017), *The Unknown Girl* (2016) and *Portrait of a Lady on Fire* (2019), in which she played Héloïse. She retired from the film industry in 2023 and has since focused on stage work and political activism.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Portrait of a Lady on Fire* (2019), Fi1m 89, as Héloïse — [page](https://film.one/film/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Returning to Reims* (2022), as Narrator
- *Heroes Don't Die* (2020), as Alice
- *Portrait of a Lady on Fire* (2019), as Héloïse — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire.md)
- *Deerskin* (2019), as Denise
- *The Trouble with You* (2018), as Yvonne
- *One Nation, One King* (2018), as Françoise
- *BPM (Beats per Minute)* (2017), as Sophie
- *Orphan* (2017), as Renee
- *The Bloom of Yesterday* (2017), as Zazie Lindeau
- *The Unknown Girl* (2016), as Jenny Davin
- *Nocturama* (2016), as La jeune femme au vélo
- *Ogres* (2016), as Mona
- *The Forbidden Room* (2015), as Mute Invalid
- *Love at First Fight* (2014), as Madeleine Beaulieu
- *In the Name of My Daughter* (2014), as Agnès Le Roux
- *Le rêve de Camille* (2014), Actor
- *Suzanne* (2013), as Maria Merevsky
- *Three Worlds* (2012), as Marion Testard
- *An Hour with Alice* (2012), as Alice
- *Aliyah* (2012), as Jeanne
- *La Mouette* (2012), as Macha
- *Folks* (2012), Actor
- *House of Pleasures* (2011), as Léa
- *Goldman* (2011), as Jeanne
- *Children of the Night* (2011), as Henriette
- *Iris in Bloom* (2011), as Isabelle
- *Heat Wave* (2011), as Amelie
- *Les grandes forêts* (2010), Actor
- *Déchaînées* (2009), as Lucie / Young Geneviève
- *Pauline* (2009), as Girlfriend
- *Le bel esprit* (2008), Actor
- *The Solitudes* (2008), Actor
- *Water Lilies* (2007), as Floriane
- *The Devils* (2002), as Chloé

## Gallery

- ![Adèle Haenel](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-41de23aa6c3d.jpg) Adèle Haenel — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ad%C3%A8le_Haenel_Cannes_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Théâtre et salle de musique de La Chaux-de-Fonds (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-d0d191691cbd.jpg) Théâtre et salle de musique de La Chaux-de-Fonds (2023) — Blackberrijack, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/1_l%27etand_janv_23.jpg/1280px-1_l%27etand_janv_23.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Adele Haenel en Festival de Cannes 2021](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-17b5a8776509.jpg) Adele Haenel en Festival de Cannes 2021 — Canal22, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Adele_Haenel_Cannes_2021.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Adèle Haenel during an interview in 2019](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-d3ec77dd2916.jpg) Adèle Haenel during an interview in 2019 — Mediapart, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Ad%C3%A8le_Haenel_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Adèle Haenel](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-c542bee89a2a.jpg) Adèle Haenel — Image via TMDB
- ![Adèle Haenel](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-ae28de4f9514.jpg) Adèle Haenel — Image via TMDB
- ![Adèle Haenel](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-b2fb4e3f9027.jpg) Adèle Haenel — Image via TMDB
- ![Adèle Haenel à la cérémonie des César (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-b25b79c557d7.jpg) Adèle Haenel à la cérémonie des César (2015) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Ad%C3%A8le_Haenel_C%C3%A9sars_2015_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actresses Adèle Haenel and Hannah Herzsprung interviewed for ORF at the Austrian premiere of Die Blumen von gestern at Gartenbaukino, Vienna, Austria. (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-d1bc5968abce.jpg) Actresses Adèle Haenel and Hannah Herzsprung interviewed for ORF at the Austrian premiere of Die Blumen von gestern at Gartenbaukino, Vienna, Austria. (2017) — Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Ad%C3%A8le_Haenel_Hannah_Herzsprung_Die_Blumen_von_gestern_%C3%96sterreichpremiere_2017_ORF-Interview_01.jpg/1280px-Ad%C3%A8le_Haenel_Hannah_Herzsprung_Die_Blumen_von_gestern_%C3%96sterreichpremiere_2017_ORF-Interview_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Adèle Haenel](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-ce9ca2356d4e.jpg) Adèle Haenel — Image via TMDB
- ![Adèle Haenel](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-c2f535d9991e.jpg) Adèle Haenel — Image via TMDB
- ![Adèle Haenel](https://film.one/media/person/130390/gallery-eb29a9f8b41e.jpg) Adèle Haenel — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won, 2 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Actress 2019: European Film Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Portrait of a Lady on Fire*
- César Award for Best Actress 2015: César Award for Best Actress (won)
- Prix Romy Schneider 2015: Prix Romy Schneider (won)
- César Award for Best Supporting Actress 2014: César Award for Best Supporting Actress (won)
- César Award for Best Female Revelation 2008: César Award for Best Female Revelation (nominated), for *Water Lilies*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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