Expected to appear at the cinema this year in two films, Adèle Exarchopoulos is continuing her career in the 7th Art at a breakneck pace. But she does not forget her role as a mother, which she mentioned in the pages of “Vogue”.
At 32, Adèle Exarchopoulos has established herself as one of the new essential faces of French cinema. In 2026, she is expected in the films Madderby Jeanne Herry as well as Orange flavored weddingby Christophe Honoré. And this sustained pace of filming is not a choice that she imposes on herself but rather the fruit of her desires.
Adèle Exarchopoulos and motherhood: “I was 22 when I got pregnant“
It was at the start of the 2000s that Adèle Exarchopoulos discovered a passion for acting. First on stage then, very quickly, for cinema. In 2013, she triumphed with The Life of Adèlea film for which she received a slew of awards including a Palme d’Or at Cannes and a César! Since then, she has had a series of projects but still has not established a career plan, she swears.
“I was 22 when I got pregnant (she had a little boy named Ismaël, born in 2017, whose dad is her former partner the rapper Doums, against whom she filed a complaint for domestic violence, editor’s note). And I told myself that my choices would determine my work. Because it was thanks to him that I was going to educate my son, go on vacation, build dreams. However, I have always been afraid of calculating. As if my luck had been to never have a planto accept not to master everything“, she confides to French Vogue.
Adèle Exarchopoulos and her only son: “I was lucky to be able to welcome him in good conditions“
The actress, now in a relationship with François Civil, seems to have found the right balance between her career and being a mother. In front of the cameras Seven to eightin 2024, Adèle Exarchopoulos agreed to come back to the birth of her son.
“I was lucky to be able to welcome him in good conditions. Today, I am 30 years old and I have the impression that we are never ready for the upheaval that it is to be responsible for someone’s life, to be responsible for their happiness and at the same time not completely. There is something scary.“
