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Huppert's frequent collaboration with director 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 des 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. Huppert's film career accelerated rapidly as she worked with directors such as Chabrol, Bertrand, Blier, Otto Preminger and Jean-Luc Godard. Huppert is acclaimed for the wide range of characters she had portrayed. Huppert received international praise as the sexually repressed title character in 'The Piano Teacher'. The stellar performance won her Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the European Film Awards, as well as nods from the San Francisco Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Films Critics Association and the Toronto Film Critics Association. Huppert's 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.
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'. An accomplished stage actress, Huppert recently ended a six-month tour in Sarah Kane's '4.48 Psychosis' (directed by Claude Regy). Her latest collaboration with Michael Haneke is 'Time of the Wolf'.
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