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Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert

Actor · Born March 16, 1953 · Parc Montsouris, Paris, France

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Biography

Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (born 16 March 1953) is a French actress. Described as "one of the best actresses in the world", she is known for her portrayals of cold and disdainful characters devoid of morality. Nominated for a record sixteen César Awards, she has won two. Among other accolades, she has received six Lumières Award nominations, more than any other person, and won four. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her second on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Huppert's first César nomination was for the 1975 film Aloïse. In 1978, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for The Lacemaker. She went on to win two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival, for Violette Nozière (1978) and The Piano Teacher (2001), as well as two Volpi Cups for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, for Story of Women (1988) and La Cérémonie. Her other films in France include Loulou (1980), La Séparation (1994), 8 Women (2002), Gabrielle (2005), Amour (2012), and Things to Come (2016). Among international film's most prolific actresses, Huppert has worked in Italy, Russia, Central Europe, and in Asia. Her English-language films include: Heaven's Gate (1980), The Bedroom Window (1987), I Heart Huckabees (2004), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), Louder Than Bombs (2015), Greta (2018), and Frankie (2019). In 2016, Huppert garnered international acclaim for her performance in Elle, which earned her a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won Best Actress awards from the National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, for both Elle and Things to Come. Also a prolific stage actress, Huppert is the most nominated actress for the Molière Award, with seven nominations. She 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. She returned to the New York stage in 2009 to perform in Heiner Müller's Quartett, and in 2014 to star in a Sydney Theatre Company production of The Maids. In 2019, Huppert starred in Florian Zeller's The Mother at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabelle Huppert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acted in 160

2020s

  1. 2028
  2. 2026
  3. All About Corinne

    Corinne Maclou

  4. 2025
  5. 2024

    Visiting Hours

    Alma Lund

  6. My New Friends

    Lucie

  7. A Traveler's Needs

    Iris

  8. Sidonie in Japan

    Sidonie Perceval

  9. 2023

    Marianne

    Marianne

  10. 2022
  11. About Joan

    Joan Verra

  12. Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God

    Anna (voice)

  13. Promises

    Clémence Collombet

  14. 2021

    The Glass Menagerie

    Amanda

  15. Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

    Movie

  16. Morceaux de Cannes

    Movie

  17. Show of Titles

    "Can-Can" Performer

  18. The Grand Restaurant III

    The drunken client

  19. 2020

    My Best Part

    A lady in the cinema (uncredited)

2010s

  1. 2019
  2. Golden Youth

    Lucille Wood

  3. 2018
  4. Mrs. Hyde

    Madame Géquil / Madame Hyde

  5. 2017

    Reinventing Marvin

    Isabelle Huppert

  6. Barrage

    Elisabeth

  7. False Confessions

    Araminte

  8. 2016

    Souvenir

    Liliane

  9. Right Here Right Now

    Solveig, Arnaud's wife

  10. What Tears Us Apart

    Isabelle, the mother

  11. Things to Come

    Nathalie Chazeaux

  12. 2015
  13. Valley of Love

    Isabelle

  14. 2014

    The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

    Mary Rigby

  15. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

    Mary Rigby

  16. 2013

    Tip Top

    Esther Lafarge

  17. Abuse of Weakness

    Maud Schoenberg

  18. Cour d'honneur de Jérôme Bel - Avignon 2013

    Interprète

  19. 2012
  20. Captive

    Thérèse Bourgoine

  21. Dormant Beauty

    Divina Madre

  22. Dubaï Flamingo

    La chèvre (voice) (uncredited)

  23. 2011
  24. My Little Princess

    Hanna Giurgiu

  25. Medea Miracle

    Irène-Médée

  26. 2010

    Special Treatment

    Alice Bergerac

  27. Copacabana

    Babou

  28. White Material

    Maria Vial

2000s

  1. 2009

    Villa Amalia

    Ann

  2. The Sea Wall

    Madame Dufresne, la mère

  3. 2008

    Home

    Marthe

  4. 2007

    L'amore nascosto

    Danielle

  5. 2006

    Private Property

    Pascale

  6. Comedy of Power

    Jeanne Charmant-Killman

  7. 2005

    Gabrielle

    Gabrielle Hervey

  8. 2004

    Me and My Sister

    Martine Demouthy

  9. 2003
  10. 2002

    Deux

    Magdalena / Maria

  11. The Promised Life

    Sylvia

  12. 2001
  13. Médée

    Médée

  14. 2000

    Nightcap

    Marie-Claire 'Mika' Muller

  15. Comedy of Innocence

    Ariane

  16. Sentimental Destinies

    Nathalie Barnery

  17. The King's Daughters

    Madame de Maintenon

  18. The False Servant

    La comtesse

  19. Modern Life

    Claire

1990s

  1. 1999

    Keep It Quiet

    Agnès Jeancourt

  2. 1998

    The School of Flesh

    Dominique

  3. 1997

    The Swindle

    Betty

  4. Pierre and Marie

    Maria Skłodowska-Curie

  5. 1996

    Elective Affinities

    Carlotta

  6. 1995
  7. The Flood

    Sofia

  8. 1994

    La Séparation

    Anne

  9. 1992

    Love After Love

    Lola

  10. 1991
  11. Malina

    Die Frau

  12. 1990

    A Woman's Revenge

    Cécile

1980s

  1. 1989

    Migrations

    Dafina

  2. 1988

    Story of Women

    Marie Latour

  3. 1987
  4. Milan noir

    Sarah

  5. 1986

    Cactus

    Colo

  6. 1985

    All Mixed Up

    Rose-Marie Martin

  7. 1984

    The Bitch

    Aline Kaminker

  8. 1983
  9. Entre Nous

    Lena Weber

  10. 1982

    The Trout

    Frédérique

  11. Godard's Passion

    Isabelle

  12. 1981

    Deep Water

    Mélanie

  13. The Wings of the Dove

    Marie

  14. Lady of the Camelias

    Alphonsine Plessis

  15. La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie

    Alphonsine Plessis · 2 episodes

  16. 1980
  17. Loulou

    Nelly

  18. The Inheritance

    Irén

1970s

  1. 1979
  2. Return to the Beloved

    Jeanne Kern

  3. 1978

    Monsieur Saint-Saëns

    La jeune fille

  4. Histoire vraie

    Adelaïde

  5. Violette Nozière

    Violette Nozière

  6. 1977

    No Trifling with Love

    Camille

  7. The Lacemaker

    Beatrice 'Pomme'

  8. The Indians Are Still Far Away

    Jenny Kern

  9. 1976

    Je suis Pierre Rivière

    Aimée

  10. Little Marcel

    Yvette

  11. The Judge and the Assassin

    Rose

  12. Doctor Francoise Gailland

    Élisabeth Gailland

  13. 1975

    The Big Delirium

    Marie

  14. Aloïse

    Aloïse (jeune)

  15. The Common Man

    Brigitte Colin

  16. Serious as Pleasure

    Une fille ramenée à la maison

  17. 1974
  18. Madame Baptiste

    Blanche

  19. Successive Slidings of Pleasure

    The Student

  20. 1972

    Qui êtes-vous monsieur Renaudot ?

    Marthe 13 ans

  21. Cesar and Rosalie

    Marité

  22. The Bar at the Crossing

    Annie Smith

  23. Figaro-ci, Figaro-là

    Pauline

  24. Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

    Student 2

  25. 1971

    Les Cent livres : À la recherche du temps perdu

    Gilberte

  26. Le Prussien

    Elisabeth

  27. 1970

No release date

  1. The Sleeping Shepherd

    Movie

Produced 2

1990s

  1. 1995

    The Flood

    Associate Producer

Appearances58

2020s

  1. 2024

    François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay

    Narrator (voice)

  2. 2023

    Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not To Be

    Self

  3. 2022

    By Heart

    Self

  4. Mostra, Venise

    Self · 1 episode

  5. Code Haneke

    Self

  6. Deneuve, la reine Catherine

    Self (archive footage)

  7. 2021

    The Emma Bovary Trial

    Self - Actress (archive footage)

  8. 2020

    Isabelle Huppert: Personal Message

    self

2010s

  1. 2019

    André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

    Self - Actress (archive footage)

  2. Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

    Self - Actress

  3. 2018

    Claude Chabrol's Eye

    Self

  4. 2017
  5. The Piano Teacher: Behind the Scenes - Postsync Sessions

    Self

  6. I Love Isabelle Huppert

    Self

  7. Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

    Self

  8. 2016

    Verhoeven Versus Verhoeven

    Self - Actress

  9. Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

    Self

  10. 2015
  11. 2013

    Making of Amour

    Self

  12. Balkan Spirit

    Self - Actress

  13. 2012

    In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter

    Self

  14. 2011

    Celebrity Nude Revue: Easy 80's Volume 1

    Self (archive footage)

  15. Bon vent Claude Goretta

    Self

  16. Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

    Self

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. La Traversée du désir

    Self

  3. 2007

    Voom Portraits

    Self

  4. 2005

    French Beauty

    Self (archive footage)

  5. 2003

    Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye

    Self

  6. 2002

    Heart of the Festival

    Self (archive footage)

  7. 2001

    Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer

    Self

1990s

  1. 1998
  2. 1996

    Love’s Debris

    Self - Interviewer

  3. 1995

    Lumière & Company

    Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)

  4. 1993

    Isabelle Huppert and Claude Chabrol: Crossed Portraits

    Self

  5. 1991

    Lest We Forget

    Self (segment "Pour Archana Guha, Inde")

1980s

  1. 1987
  2. 1982

    Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario

    Self

  3. Scénario du film Passion

    Self

  4. 1981

    Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))

    Self

  5. Sauve la vie (qui peut)

    Self (archive footage)

Thanked in the credits2

2020s

  1. 2021

    The Emma Bovary Trial

    Thanks

  2. 2020

    Esther's Choice

    Thanks