Isabelle Huppert is a French actress and producer. A loyal collaborator of Claude Chabrol, Benoît Jacquot and Michael Haneke, Isabelle Huppert alternates between stage and screen, art house cinema and mainstream films. She was introduced to the general public by filmmaker Claude Goretta in 1977 in the film The Lacemaker.
She is one of the most prolific actresses in France (two or three films per year on average) and one of the few French performers whose filmography is truly international: her demanding and recognized career has led her to shoot in the United States (under the direction of Michael Cimino, Hal Hartley, Curtis Hanson, Joseph Losey, David O. Russell, and Otto Preminger), in Italy (with the Taviani brothers, Mauro Bolognini, Marco Ferreri, and Marco Bellocchio), in Russia (with Igor Minaiev), in Central Europe (with Michael Haneke, Werner Schroeter, Andrzej Wajda, Ursula Meier, Márta Mészáros, or Aleksandar Petrović), and even on the Asian continent (with Hong Sang-soo, Brillante Mendoza, or Rithy Panh).
Her theatrical career also leads her to work under the direction of renowned directors such as Bob Wilson, Claude Régy, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Jacques Lassalle, or Luc Bondy, and to interpret contemporary authors such as Yasmina Reza or Florian Zeller.
She has received numerous international awards: two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival, two Volpi Cups for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, a Silver Bear for Best Artistic Contribution and an Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlinale, two European Film Awards for Best Actress, as well as a Lola in Germany, a BAFTA in the United Kingdom, and a David di Donatello in Italy.
In France, she is the actress with the most nominations at the César Awards with sixteen nominations. She has won the César Award for Best Actress twice, in 1996 for Claude Chabrol’s La Cérémonie and in 2017 for Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, which also earned her the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Film and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 2017, she received the Europe Theatre Prize.
On November 25, 2020, The New York Times ranked her as the best actress of the 21st century, citing Denzel Washington as the best actor.
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