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Huppert's frequent collaboration with Claude Chabrol has resulted in numerous Best Actress-
winning performances: 'Merci pour le Chocolat' (Montreal Festival, Paris Lumière), 'La Ceremonie'
(César, Venice Festival), 'Madame Bovary' (Moscow Festival), 'Une Affaire de Femmes' (Venice Festival) and 'Violette Noziere' (Cannes Festival).
Since her first César nomination in 1976 (for Best supporting Actress in 'Aloise'), Huppert has
received 11 Best Actress nominations for the French Academy Award. A graduate of Paris' National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Huppert made her first film, Nina Companez's Faustine,
at the age of 16.
Her film career accelerated rapidly as she worked with directors such as Chabrol, Bertrand Blier,
Otto Preminger and Jean-Luc Godard. Although she has predominantly worked in French,
Huppert played English-speaking roles in Hal Hartley's 'Amateur', Paul Cox's 'Cactus', Curtis
Hanson's 'The Bedroom Window' and Michael Cimino's 'Heaven's Gate'.
More recently, she received international praise as the sexually repressed title character in
Michael Haneke's 'The Piano Teacher'. Her contrasting comic turn as the sharp-tongued spinster
in François Ozon's '8 Women' was applauded with ensemble actress awards at the Berlin
Festival and the European Film Awards. Her latest collaboration with Michael Haneke is 'Time of
the Wolf', which is just being released in Britain.
An accomplished stage actress, Huppert also recently ended a six-month tour in Sarah Kane's '4.48 Psychosis' (directed by Claude Regy). |
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