- Isabelle Huppert
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birthname = Isabelle Anne Huppert
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spouse = Ronald Chammah (1982-present) 3 children
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1978 "La Dentellière
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1996 "La Cérémonie "
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awards =Best Actress Award -Cannes Film Festival
1978 "Violette Nozière "
2001 "The Piano Teacher "
Volpi Cup for Best Actress -Venice Film Festival
1988 "Une affaire de femmes " 1995 "La Cérémonie "
Golden Lion for Honorary Award -Venice Film Festival
2005 "Gabrielle"
Special Silver Bear - Berlin Film Festival
2002 "8 Women "
(with all the female cast)Isabelle Anne Huppert (in French pronounced|izabɛl yˈpɛʀ) (born
March 16 ,1953 ) is aCesar Award -winning French actress, who has appeared in a few major Hollywood movies.Biography
Early career
Born in
Paris to Raymond Huppert and his wife Annick Beau, and raised inVille d'Avray . Huppert was encouraged by her mother to begin acting at a young age, and became a teenage star in Paris. She later attended the Conservatory ofVersailles , at which she won a prize for her acting. After a successful stage career, she began makingmovies , debuting in 1972 with "Faustine et le bel été". (She had made atelevision debut the year before.) However it was her appearance in the controversial "Les Valseuses " (1974) that caused her to become known. She made her American debut in theMichael Cimino 's 1980 film "Heaven's Gate".Later career and recent credits
Huppert played a manic and homicidal post-office worker in Claude Chabrol's "
La Cérémonie " (1995), withSandrine Bonnaire . 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 theNobel Prize for Literature in 2004,Elfriede Jelinek . In this film, she plays a piano teacher named Erika Kohut, who becomes involved with a young pianist and ladies' man, Walter Klemmer. In 2004, she starred inChristophe Honoré 's "Ma mère " as Hélène withLouis Garrel . Here, Huppert plays an attractive middle-aged mother who has anincestuous relationship with her teenaged son. "Ma mère " was also based on a novel, this time by authorGeorge Bataille .Huppert most recently appeared on the Paris stage as the suicidal
Hedda Gabler , inHenrik Ibsen 'srealist play, tointernational acclaim. Hersublime rendition of Hedda Gabler's final moment ofdeath was so realistic.In 2005, she toured the United States in a
Royal Court Theatre production ofSarah Kane 's theatrical piece, "4.48 Psychosis ". This production was directed byClaude 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.Awards
In
Europe and the art house world, Huppert is venerated as an institution. Her most recently received awards are for her participation in "The Piano Teacher ". Huppert is also an alumna of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art ofParis ,CNSAD .She has been nominated fourteen times (a record) 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 " byClaude Chabrol (tied withJill Clayburgh ) and in 2001 for "The Piano Teacher " byMichael 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 withShirley Maclaine ), and in 1995 for "La Cérémonie " (tied with her partner in the movie,Sandrine Bonnaire ). Both films were directed byClaude 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 playingErika Kohut in "The Piano Teacher ", and in 2002 with the entire cast of "8 Women " (directed byFrançois Ozon ). With the same cast, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at theBerlin Film Festival . She won the Best Actress award at theMontréal World Film Festival (in 2002 for "Merci pour le chocolat "), at theMoscow Film Festival (in 1991 for "Madame Bovary"), at theDeutscher Filmpreis (in 1991 for "Malina ") and twice at theDavid di Donatello (in 1978 for "La Dentellière " and in 2001 for "The Piano Teacher ").In 2008 she received the
Stanislavsky Award for the outstanding achievement in her career of acting and devotion to the principles of Stanislavsky's school.Comments and critical reviews addressing her work
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 onThe 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." [cite web|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,582099,00.html|title=Isabelle Huppert: Just don't ask her to play cute]elected filmography
* "
Faustine et le bel été " (1972)
* "César et Rosalie " (1972)
* "Les Valseuses " (1974)
* "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)
* "Loulou" (1980)
* "Heaven's Gate" (1980)
* "La dame aux camélias " (1980)
* "Coup de torchon " (1981)
* "Passion" (1982)
* "Coup de foudre " (1984)
* "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 " (2005)
* "Gabrielle" (2005)
* "Robert Wilson Video Portrait" (2006)
* "L'Ivresse du pouvoir " (2006)
* "Nue propriété " (2007)
* "Home" (2008)References
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DATE OF BIRTH= 1953-03-16
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