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Isabelle Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in more than 120 feature films, mostly in starring roles. Regarded as one of the most respected actresses in French cinema, she has appeared in films directed by Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard and Michael Haneke. She has also starred in numerous stage productions, in Paris and around the world.

Her first big break came in Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses (1974), which was a success in France. Huppert's first English-language film was Rosebud (1975), directed by Otto Preminger and starring Peter O'Toole.

As of 2022, she has appeared in 22 films that have been screened In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes she has won the Best Actress Award twice, for her roles in Violette Nozière (1978) and The Piano Teacher (2001). She has also won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for The Lacemaker (1977), and two Volpi Cups at Venice for Story of Women (1988) and La Cérémonie (1995). She has been nominated for 16 César Awards, twice winning the Best Actress award, for La Cérémonie and for Elle. Huppert won the Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Paul Verhoeven's Elle (2016).

Also a prolific stage actress, Huppert is the most nominated actress for the Molière Award, with eight nominations; she received an honorary lifetime achievement award in 2017. In 2017 she was also awarded the Europe Theatre Prize.

In 2022 she received the Honorary Golden Bear from the Berlin Film Festival.

Film

Television

Stage

Public readings

Discography

Albums

• 2001: Madame Deshoulières with Jean-Louis Murat

Tracks

• 1976: "La Commune Est En Lutte" for the soundtrack of The Judge and the Assassin
• 1976: "Promenade" for the soundtrack of The Judge and the Assassin
• 1981: "Dans La Chambre Vide (Romance)" for the soundtrack of Coup de Torchon
• 1985: "Signé Charlotte! (Souvenir Chiffonné)" for the soundtrack of Sincerely Charlotte
• 2002: "Message personnel" for the soundtrack of 8 Women
• 2004: "Rue De Jollières" for the soundtrack of Les Sœurs fâchées
• 2016: "Joli Garçon" for the soundtrack of Souvenir
• 2016: "Souvenir" for the soundtrack of Souvenir

Audiobooks

• 1988: Le Roseau révolté by Nina Berberova
• 1994: The Flood (L’Inondation) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• 1994: Music and Poetry (Musique et Poésie) by Ingeborg Bachmann in Voices of Women for Democracy (Voix de femmes pour la démocratie)
• 2009: Tropisms (Tropismes) by Nathalie Sarraute

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Isabelle Huppert

Notes

1. From Jan Fabre 4 solos

References

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85. "L'Inondation - Des femmes" (in French). Éditions des femmes. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
86. "Voix de femmes pour la démocratie - Des femmes" (in French). Éditions des femmes. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
87. "Tropismes et 5 autres textes - Nathalie Sarraute - Des femmes" (in French). Éditions des femmes. Retrieved 15 June 2017.

External links

• Isabelle Huppert at IMDb
• Isabelle Huppert at AllMovie

• Actress filmographies
• French filmographies