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One of the world's most prominent actresses, Isabelle 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. 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 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.
Huppert's 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. 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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