Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress.
41 Facts About Isabelle Huppert
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Isabelle Huppert is the recipient of several accolades, including two Cesar Awards, five Lumieres Awards, a BAFTA Award, three European Film Awards, two Berlin International Film Festival, three Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival honors, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award nomination; in 2020, The New York Times ranked her second on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
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Isabelle Huppert won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for The Lacemaker.
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Isabelle Huppert went on to win two Cannes Film Festival Awards for Best Actress for Violette Noziere and The Piano Teacher.
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Isabelle Huppert received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress twice for Story of Women and La Ceremonie.
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Isabelle Huppert earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her role in Elle.
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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.
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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.
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Isabelle Huppert returned to the New York stage in 2009 to perform in Heiner Muller's Quartett, and in 2014 to star in a Sydney Theatre Company production of The Maids.
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In 2019, Isabelle Huppert starred in Florian Zeller's The Mother at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York.
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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.
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Isabelle Huppert's father was Hungarian-Jewish; his family was from Eperjes, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Alsace-Lorraine.
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Isabelle Huppert was encouraged by her mother to begin acting at a young age, and became a teenage star in Paris.
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Isabelle Huppert later attended Conservatoire a rayonnement regional de Versailles, where she won a prize for her acting.
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Isabelle Huppert is an alumna of the Conservatoire national superieur d'art dramatique.
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Isabelle Huppert made her television debut in 1971 with Le Prussien, and her film debut in 1972's Faustine et le Bel Ete.
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Isabelle Huppert made her American film debut in Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, which opened to poor reviews and was a box office failure; decades later, the film has been reassessed, with some critics considering it an overlooked masterpiece.
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In 1994, Isabelle Huppert collaborated with American director Hal Hartley on Amateur, one of her few English-language performances since Heaven's Gate.
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Isabelle Huppert portrayed a manic and homicidal post-office worker in Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie, with Sandrine Bonnaire, and continued her cinematic relationship with Chabrol in Rien ne va plus, and Merci pour le Chocolat.
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Isabelle Huppert appeared in Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher, which is based on a novel of the same name by Austrian author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek.
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Isabelle Huppert worked in Italy, in Russia, in Central Europe and in Asia.
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Isabelle Huppert is an acclaimed stage actress, receiving seven Moliere Award nominations, including for the titular role in a 2001 Paris production of Medea, directed by Jacques Lassalle, and in 2005, at the Odeon-Theatre de l'Europe in Paris, in the title role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.
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Isabelle Huppert returned to the New York stage in 2009 to perform in Heiner Muller's Quartett.
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Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, in May 2009.
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Isabelle Huppert had been s Member of the Jury and Master of Ceremony in previous years, as well as winning the Best Actress Award twice.
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Isabelle Huppert played one of the hostages of the Dos Palmas kidnappings.
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In 2016, Isabelle Huppert starred in Krzysztof Warlikowski's stage production of Phedre, which toured Europe as well as BAM in New York.
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Isabelle Huppert has been in a relationship with writer, producer and director Ronald Chammah since 1982.
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Isabelle Huppert is the owner of the repertory cinemas Christine Cinema Club and Ecoles Cinema Club in Paris, which her son Lorenzo curates.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Isabelle Huppert was made Chevalier of the Ordre national du Merite on 8 December 1994 and was promoted to Officier in 2005.
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Isabelle Huppert was made Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur on 29 September 1999 and was promoted to Officier in 2009.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Isabelle Huppert holds the record for being the actress with the most films entered in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival.
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Isabelle Huppert can be funny and charming, but then so can a lot of actors.
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Isabelle Huppert is in complete command of a face that regards the void with blankness.