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Isabelle Huppert
Born	Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert 16 March 1955 (1955-03-16) (age 54) Paris, France
Years active	1972—present
Spouse(s)	Ronald Chammah (1982–present), 3 children

Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (French pronunciation: [izabɛl yˈpɛʀ]) (born 16 March 1955) is a French actress, who has appeared in about 80 films including a few Hollywood movies. She won the César Award for Best Actress in 1996 for her performance in La Cérémonie.

Contents 1 Early career 2 Later career and recent credits 3 Awards 4 Reviews 5 Selected filmography 6 References 7 Awards and nominations 7.1 César Awards 7.2 Molière Awards 8 External links

Early career

Isabelle Huppert was born in Paris to Raymond Huppert and Annick Beau, and was raised in Ville d'Avray, a western suburb of the city. Huppert was encouraged by her mother to begin acting at a young age, and became a teenage star in Paris. She later attended Versailles Conservatoire, where she won a prize for her acting. She is also an alum of Europe's most prestigious National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris, CNSAD. After a successful stage career, she began making films, debuting in 1972 with Faustine et le bel été (her television debut was a year earlier). However it was her appearance in the controversial Les Valseuses (1974) that made her increasingly recognised to the wider public. Her international breakthrough, finally, came with 'La Dentelliere' (1977), in which her now signature acting style - quiet and nuanced, yet intense - was displayed to great effect. She made her American debut in the Michael Cimino's 1980 film Heaven's Gate, which flopped at the U.S. box office, but was re-released in the full version. In the 80s, Huppert continued to explore enigmatic and emotionally distant characters, most notably in Maurice Pialat's 'Loulou' (1980), Godard's 'Sauve qui peut (la vie)' (1980), Diane Kurys' 'Coup de foudre' (1983), and Claude Chabrol's 'Une Affaire de Femmes' (1988).

Later career and recent credits

Huppert played a manic and homicidal post-office worker in Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie (1995), with Sandrine Bonnaire, and continued her cinematic relationship with that director in 'Rien ne va plus' (1997), and 'Merci pour le Chocolat' (2000). She also appeared in Michael Haneke's La Pianiste (2001), which is based on a novel of the same name (Die Klavierspielerin) by Austrian author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek. In this film, she played a piano teacher named Erika Kohut, who becomes involved with a young pianist and ladies' man, Walter Klemmer. Regarded as one of her most impressive turns, her performance netted the 2001 acting prize in Cannes. In 2004, she starred in Christophe Honoré's Ma mère as Hélène with Louis Garrel. Here, Huppert plays an attractive middle-aged mother who has an incestuous relationship with her teenaged son. Ma mère was also based on a novel, by George Bataille.

Huppert most recently appeared on the Paris stage as the suicidal Hedda Gabler, in Henrik Ibsen's realist play, to international acclaim.

In 2005, she toured the United States in a Royal Court Theatre production of Sarah Kane's theatrical piece, 4.48 Psychosis. This production was directed by Claude Regy and performed in French. She chose to remain still throughout the entire performance, moving only her hands and face, much of the time with tears streaming down her cheeks.

Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, from 13 May to 24 May 2009.¹ She has been Member of the Jury and Master of Ceremony in previous years, as well as winning the Best Actress Award twice. As president, she gave the Palme d'Or to The White Ribbon by the Austrian director Michael Haneke² who has directed her in The Piano Teacher and Time of the Wolf.³

Awards

In Europe and the art house world, Huppert is venerated as an institution.

Huppert most recently received an award for her part in The Piano Teacher. Huppert is also an alumna of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris, CNSAD.

She has been nominated twelve times for a César Award, winning it in 1996 for her work in La Cérémonie.

She is one of only four women who have twice won Best Actress at the Cannes film festival: in 1978 for her role in Violette Noziere by Claude Chabrol (tied with Jill Clayburgh) and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke.

She is also one of only two women who have twice received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice film festival: in 1988 for her part in Une affaire de femmes (tied with Shirley MacLaine), and in 1995 for La Cérémonie (tied with her partner in the movie, Sandrine Bonnaire). Both films were directed by Claude Chabrol. Additionally, she received a Special Lion in 2005 for her role in Gabrielle.

Huppert was twice voted Best Actress at the European Film Awards: in 2001 for playing Erika Kohut in The Piano Teacher, and in 2002 with the entire cast of 8 Women (directed by François Ozon). With the same cast, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. She won the Best Actress award at the Montréal World Film Festival (in 2002 for Merci pour le chocolat), at the Moscow Film Festival (in 1991 for Madame Bovary), at the Deutscher Filmpreis (in 1991 for Malina) and twice at the David di Donatello (in 1978 for La Dentellière and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher).

In 2008 she received the Stanislavsky Award for outstanding achievement in acting, and devotion to the principles of the Stanislavsky method.

She was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite on 8 December 1994⁴ and was promoted to Officier (Officer) in 2005.⁴

She was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur on 29 September 1999⁵ and was promoted to Officier (Officer) in 2009.⁵

Reviews

David Thomson on Claude Chabrol's Madame Bovary: "[Huppert] has to rate as one of the most accomplished actresses in the world today, even if she seems short of the passion or agony of her contemporary, Isabelle Adjani".

Stuart Jeffries of The Observer on The Piano Teacher: "This is surely one of the greatest performances of Huppert's already illustrious acting career, though it is one that is very hard to watch."

Director, Michael Haneke: "[Huppert] has such professionalism, the way she is able to represent suffering. At one end you have the extreme of her suffering and then you have her icy intellectualism. No other actor can combine the two."⁶

Selected filmography

Faustine et le bel été (1972) César et Rosalie (1972) Les Valseuses (1974) Aloïse (1975) The Judge and the Assassin (1976) Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976) La Dentellière (1977) Les Indiens sont encore loin (1977) Violette Nozière (1978) Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1979) The Bronte Sisters (1979) Loulou (1980) The Heiresses (1980) Heaven's Gate (1980) La dame aux camélias (1980) Coup de torchon (1981) Passion (1982) The Story of Piera (1983) Entre Nous (1983) also known as Coup de foudre The Bedroom Window (1987) Une affaire de femmes (1988) La vengeance d'une femme (1990) Madame Bovary (1991) La séparation (1994) Amateur (1994) La Cérémonie (1995) Rien ne va plus (1996)

Le affinità elettive (1996) Les palmes de M. Schultz (1997) L'École de la chair (1997) Pas de scandale (1999) Merci pour le chocolat (1999) Les destinées sentimentales (2000) La comédie de l'innocence (2000) Saint-Cyr (2000) La pianiste (2001) 8 femmes (2002) La vie promise (2002) Deux (2002) Le temps du loup (2002) Ma mère (2004) I Heart Huckabees (2004) Les Sœurs fâchées (2004) Gabrielle (2005) Robert Wilson Video Portrait (2006) L'Ivresse du pouvoir (2006) L'Amour caché (2007) Nue Propriété (2007) Médée miracle (2007) Home (2008) Un Barrage contre le Pacifique (2008) Villa Amalia (2009) White Material (2009) (post-production) Des parents formidables (2009) (in production)

References

Awards and nominations

César Awards

Year	Group	Award	Film	Result
1996	César Awards	Best Actress	La Cérémonie	Won

Year	Group	Award	Film	Result
1976	César Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Aloïse	Nominated
1978	César Awards	Best Actress	The Lacemaker (La Dentellière)	Nominated
1979	César Awards	Best Actress	Violette Nozière	Nominated
1981	César Awards	Best Actress	Loulou	Nominated
1982	César Awards	Best Actress	Coup de torchon	Nominated
1989	César Awards	Best Actress	Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes)	Nominated
1995	César Awards	Best Actress	La Séparation	Nominated
1999	César Awards	Best Actress	L'École de la chair	Nominated
2001	César Awards	Best Actress	Saint-Cyr	Nominated
2002	César Awards	Best Actress	The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste)	Nominated
2003	César Awards	Best Actress	8 Women (8 Femmes)	Nominated
2006	César Awards	Best Actress	Gabrielle	Nominated

Molière Awards

Year	Group	Award	Film	Result
1989	Molière Awards	Best Actress	A Month in the Country (Un mois à la campagne)	Nominated
1994	Molière Awards	Best Actress	Orlando: A Biography (Orlando)	Nominated
1995	Molière Awards	Best Actress	Orlando : A Biography (Orlando)	Nominated
2001	Molière Awards	Best Actress	Medea (Médée)	Nominated
2005	Molière Awards	Best Actress	Hedda Gabler	Nominated

External links

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v • d • e César Award for Best Actress 1976 : Romy Schneider • 1977 : Annie Girardot • 1978 : Simone Signoret • 1979 : Romy Schneider • 1980 : Miou-Miou • 1981 : Catherine Deneuve • 1982 : Isabelle Adjani • 1983 : Nathalie Baye • 1984 : Isabelle Adjani • 1985 : Sabine Azéma • 1986 : Sandrine Bonnaire • 1987 : Sabine Azéma • 1988 : Anémone • 1989 : Isabelle Adjani • 1990 : Carole Bouquet • 1991 : Anne Parillaud • 1992 : Jeanne Moreau • 1993 : Catherine Deneuve • 1994 : Juliette Binoche • 1995 : Isabelle Adjani • 1996 : Isabelle Huppert • 1997 : Fanny Ardant • 1998 : Ariane Ascaride • 1999 : Élodie Bouchez • 2000 : Karin Viard • 2001 : Dominique Blanc • 2002 : Emmanuelle Devos • 2003 : Isabelle Carré • 2004 : Sylvie Testud • 2005 : Yolande Moreau • 2006 : Nathalie Baye • 2007 : Marina Hands • 2008 : Marion Cotillard • 2009 : Yolande Moreau

Persondata
NAME	Huppert, Isabelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Huppert, Isabelle Anne
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress
DATE OF BIRTH	1955-03-16
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris, France
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH