1. Isabelle Huppert is the recipient of several accolades, such as 5 Lumiere Awards, a BAFTA Award, 3 European Film Awards, 2 Berlin International Film Festival, 3 Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival honors, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award nomination.
Isabelle Huppert went on to win two Cannes Film Festival Awards for Best Actress for Violette Noziere and The Piano Teacher as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actress twice for Story of Women and La Ceremonie.
Isabelle Huppert is among international cinema's most prolific actresses with her best known English-language films including Heaven's Gate, The Bedroom Window, I Heart Huckabees, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Louder Than Bombs, Greta, Frankie, and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.
Also a prolific stage actress, Isabelle Huppert is the most nominated actress for the Moliere Award, with nine nominations; she received an honorary award in 2017.
Isabelle Huppert made her London stage debut in the title role of the play Mary Stuart in 1996, and her New York stage debut in a 2005 production of 4.48 Psychosis.
Isabelle Huppert was born on 16 March 1953, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the daughter of Annick, an English language teacher, and Raymond Isabelle Huppert, a safe manufacturer.
Isabelle Huppert's father was Jewish; his family was from Eperjes, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Alsace-Lorraine.
In 1968, aged 15, Isabelle Huppert enrolled at the Conservatoire a rayonnement regional de Versailles, where she won a prize for her acting.
Isabelle Huppert attended the Conservatoire national superieur d'art dramatique.
Isabelle Huppert made her television debut in 1971 with Le Prussien, and her feature film debut in Nina Companeez's romantic comedy Faustine et le Bel Ete.
Isabelle Huppert made her theatre debut playing Lucile in Les Precieuses ridicules at the Comedie-Francaise in Paris from 1971 to 1972.
Isabelle Huppert starred in the title role in the drama film Aloise which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Isabelle Huppert earned a Cesar Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance.
Isabelle Huppert acted in Curtis Hanson's neo-noir thriller The Bedroom Window acting opposite Steve Guttenberg and Elizabeth McGovern.
Isabelle Huppert won acclaim for her role in Claude Chabrol's Une Affaire de Femmes.
In 1994, Isabelle Huppert collaborated with American director Hal Hartley on Amateur, one of her few English-language performances since Heaven's Gate.
Isabelle Huppert continued her cinematic relationship with Chabrol in Rien ne va plus and Merci pour le Chocolat.
Isabelle Huppert portrayed Helene, a middle-aged mother in an incestuous relationship with her teenage son, played by Louis Garrel.
Isabelle Huppert starred opposite Dustin Hoffman and Jason Schwartzman in David O Russell's 2004 film I Heart Huckabees.
Isabelle Huppert worked in Italy, in Russia, in Central Europe and in Asia.
Isabelle Huppert is an acclaimed stage actress, receiving seven Moliere Award nominations, including for the lead in a 2001 Paris production of Medea directed by Jacques Lassalle; and in 2005 in the title role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Odeon-Theatre de l'Europe in Paris.
Isabelle Huppert returned to the New York stage in 2009 to perform in Heiner Muller's Quartett.
Isabelle Huppert served as president of the jury at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Isabelle Huppert had been a Member of the Jury and Master of Ceremony in previous years, as well as winning the Best Actress Award twice.
Isabelle Huppert played one of the hostages of the Dos Palmas kidnappings.
Isabelle Huppert plays Solange as the smarter, more subtle, more bitterly ironic observer.
In 2016, Isabelle Huppert starred in Krzysztof Warlikowski's stage production of Phedre, which toured Europe as well as BAM in New York.
On stage, Isabelle Huppert has starred in the following plays The Glass Menagerie as Amanda Wingfield, directed by Ivo van Hove, The Cherry Orchard as Lyubov, directed by Tiago Rodrigues.
Isabelle Huppert is a global ambassador of luxury fashion line Balenciaga.
In 2024, Isabelle Huppert presided as the Jury President for the main competition of the 81st edition of Venice Film Festival.
Isabelle Huppert has been in a relationship with French writer, producer and director Ronald Chammah since about 1982.
Isabelle Huppert has three children with Chammah, including the actress Lolita Chammah, with whom she acted in five films, including Copacabana and Barrage.
Isabelle Huppert is the owner of the repertory cinemas Christine Cinema Club and Ecoles Cinema Club in Paris, which her son Lorenzo curates.
Isabelle Huppert has been nominated 16 times, becoming the most nominated actress in the history of Cesar Awards, winning Best Actress twice: in 1996 for her work in La Ceremonie, and in 2017 for her role in Elle.
Isabelle Huppert 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 and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke.
Isabelle Huppert is one of only four 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, and in 1995 for La Ceremonie.
Isabelle 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.
Isabelle Huppert was made Chevalier of the Ordre national du Merite on 8 December 1994 and was promoted to Officier in 2005.
Isabelle Huppert was made Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur on 29 September 1999 and was promoted to Officier in 2009.
Isabelle Huppert was selected for Honorary Golden Bear Lifetime Achievement Award at 72nd Berlin International Film Festival awarded on 15 February 2022 in festival award ceremony at Berlinale Palast.
From her beginnings as a stage actress, Isabelle Huppert has moved between cinema and theatre with an extraordinary productivity, and with results which have made her perhaps the most garlanded performer in the two spheres.
Isabelle Huppert's name, directly linked with French and European auteur cinema, is a guarantee of quality for the productions in which she takes part: she is an artist who chooses her scripts, her roles and the directors with whom she works with the greatest care, always able to make her mark on the films in which she appears.
Isabelle Huppert holds the record for being the actress with the most films entered in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Isabelle Huppert can be funny and charming, but then so can a lot of actors.
Isabelle Huppert is in complete command of a face that regards the void with blankness.