Trivia

She named Sandrine Kiberlain, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman among the actresses who inspire her.

Was in a relationship with director Céline Sciamma.

Her French mother is a teacher. Her Austrian father is a translator.

She has a high school diploma in economy and sociology. She later studied physics and marine biology.

Has a green belt in judo.

She's one of only three non-Belgian actors to lead a movie directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne since I'm Thinking of You (1993), the other two being Arta Dobroshi in Lorna's Silence (2008) and Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night (2014). She played the leading role in The Unknown Girl (2016), which was originally meant as a Dardenne-Cotillard collaboration.

She's a vocal feminist.

She first met Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne at a party in Paris, just after she was awarded the annual Prix Suzanne Bianchetti for most promising French actress [June 2014]. The leading role of Dr. Jenny Davin in The Unknown Girl (2016) had been originally meant for an older actress, but they decided to change her age so that Adèle would play her.

Took stage acting courses in her teens.

Has been training in soccer, swimming, horseback riding, rugby, biking and boxing.

She called Jim Carrey her first screen crush.

Was originally attached to Summertime (2015) and The Innocents (2016), but eventually withdrew from both projects, where she was respectively replaced by Izïa Higelin and Lou de Laâge.

Had shot a scene in Confession of a Child of the Century (2012), but it was eventually removed from the final cut of the film.

She's a fan of Dany Boon and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

She made her stage debut in 2012 at the Avignon Festival in a production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull". It was filmed as La mouette (2012).

Was cast in a 2016 stage production of Harold Pinter's "Old Times" at the Atelier Theatre. The play opened on the Parisian stage in 1971 when actress Delphine Seyrig personally gained the playwright's permission and led the cast of the original production. Adèle was Catherine Corsini's original choice to star in Summertime (2015) as Delphine Benchiessa, a character the director had named and partly modeled after the late actress.

Stated her interest in working with Joachim Lafosse, Bouli Lanners and Felix van Groeningen.

Worked with Vincent Rottiers in The Devils (2002) and with his half-brother Kévin Azaïs in Love at First Fight (2014).