Isabelle HUPPERT

Actress

Country: FRANCE

Biography

After leaving the Conservatoire, Isabelle Huppert made her screen debut with Bertrand Blier in Going Places, then with Bertrand Tavernier; her career took off with The Lacemaker by Claude Goretta and Violette (Award for Best Actress at Cannes) by Claude Chabrol with whom she then regularly works: Story of Women, Madame Bovary, A Judgement in Stone. Ever-loyal to Benoît Jacquot, with whom she made several films, including Villa Amalia, she also works on French projects with André Téchiné, Maurice Pialat, Michel Deville, Olivier Assayas, François Ozon, Olivier Dahan, Patrice Chéreau or Claire Denis, and international ones with Jean-Luc Godard, Mauro Bolognini, Michael Cimino, Joseph Losey, Marco Ferreri, Andrzej Wajda, Hal Hartley, the Taviani brothers,Raoul Ruiz, Werner Schroeter or Michael Haneke (Award for Best Actress at Cannes in 2001 for The Piano Teacher). In 2005, an exhibition entitled "La femme aux portraits", shown in New York, and then Europe, revealed her passion for photography showing her through the lens of 75 photographers including Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Helmut Newton. Isabelle Huppert also works on stage. She has been directed notably by Bob Wilson in Orlando and recently in Quartett, and by Claude Regy in 4.48 Psychose. She also played Medea at the Avignon festival and Mary Stuart at the Royal National Theatre in London.

Films presented in Cannes

2012 - AMOUR (LOVE) - In Competition Actor
2012 - DA-REUN NA-RA-E-SUH (IN ANOTHER COUNTRY) - In Competition Actor
2003 - LE TEMPS DU LOUP - Out of Competition Actor
2001 - LA PIANISTE - In Competition Actor
2000 - SAINT-CYR - Un Certain Regard Actor
2000 - LES DESTINEES SENTIMENTALES - In Competition Actor
1998 - L'ÉCOLE DE LA CHAIR - In Competition Actor
1996 - LES AFFINITES ELECTIVES - Out of Competition Actor
1991 - MALINA - In Competition Actor
1983 - STORIA DI PIERA - In Competition Actor
1982 - PASSION - In Competition Actor
1981 - HEAVEN'S GATE - In Competition Actor
1980 - LOULOU - In Competition Actor
1980 - OROKSEG - In Competition Actor
1980 - SAUVE QUI PEUT/ LA VIE - In Competition Actor
1979 - LES SOEURS BRONTE - In Competition Actor
1978 - VIOLETTE NOZIERE - In Competition Actor
1977 - LA DENTELLIERE - In Competition Actor
1975 - ALOISE - In Competition Actor

Awards

2001 - Award for Best Actress - LA PIANISTE - Long métrage
1978 - Award for Best Actress - VIOLETTE NOZIERE - Long métrage

Member of the Jury

2009 - Feature films - President
1984 - Sélection officielle - Member