Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Ann Huppert
1955 -
French born Paris

Height 5' 3" (1.60 m) . Isabelle Huppert was born in 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's "Un caprice". She then studied at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique and followed an illustrious theatrical career, which includes Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in the Country", Euripides' "Medea" (title role) etc. She made her movie debut in 1971 and soon became one of the top actresses of her generation, giving fine performances in important films, like Claude Goretta's Dentellière, La (1977), as a simple-minded girl who falls in love with - and is betrayed by - a student, Jean-Luc Godard's Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980), as a prostitute, and Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), as an upper-class woman who is physically attracted by a young vagabond. She made her US debut playing a brothel madam in Michael Cimino's disastrous Heaven's Gate (1980) and has an extremely productive collaboration with Claude Chabrol, who cast her in several movies, including Violette Nozière (1978), in which she played a young woman who murders her parents, and Une affaire de femmes (1988), in which she gave an excellent performance as a shameless abortionist, the last woman to be executed in France. More recent good films include Patricia Mazuy's Saint-Cyr (2000) and Michael Haneke's controversial Pianiste, La (2001), as a sexually repressed piano teacher. Spouse Ronald Chammah (1982 - present) 3 children.

America (2006) , Beau monde, Le (2006) , Clara (2007) , Madre e ossa (2007) , Nue propriété (2006) , Ivresse du pouvoir, L' (2006) , Gabrielle (2005) , Soeurs fâchées, Les (2004) , I Heart Huckabees (2004) , Ma mère (2004) , Temps du loup, Le (2003) , Vie promise, La (2002) , Deux (2002) , 8 femmes (2002) , Pianiste, La (2001) , Médée (2001) , Comédie de l'innocence (2000) , Merci pour le chocolat (2000) , Destinées sentimentales, Les (2000) , Saint-Cyr (2000) , Fausse suivante, La (2000) , Vie moderne, La (2000) , Pas de scandale (1999) , École de la chair, L' (1998) , Rien ne va plus (1997) , Palmes de M. Schutz, Les (1997) , Affinità elettive, Le (1996) , Gulliver's Travels (1996) , Cérémonie, La (1995) , Séparation, La (1994) , Navodneniye (1994), Amateur (1994) , Après l'amour (1992) , Madame Bovary (1991) , Malina (1991) , Vengeance d'une femme, La (1990) , Seobe (1989) , Une affaire de femmes (1988) , Possédés, Les (1988) , The Bedroom Window (1987) , Milan noir (1987) , Cactus (1986) , Sac de noeuds (1985) , Signé Charlotte (1985) , Garce, La (1984) , Femme de mon pote, La (1983) , Storia di Piera (1983) , Coup de foudre (1983) , Truite, La (1982) , Passion (1982) , Eaux profondes (1981) , Coup de torchon (1981) , Ailes de la colombe, Les (1981) , Dame aux camélias, La (1980) , Heaven's Gate (1980) , Örökség (1980) , Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980) , Loulou (1980) , Soeurs Brontë, Les (1979) , Retour à la bien-aimée (1979) , Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' (1979) , "Il était un musicien" (1978) , Violette Nozière (1978) , On ne badine pas avec l'amour (1977) , Indiens sont encore loin, Les (1977) , Des enfants gâtés (1977) , Dentellière, La (1977) , Petit Marcel, Le (1976) , Je suis Pierre Rivière (1976) , Juge et l'assassin, Le (1976) , Aloïse (1975) , Rosebud (1975) , Dupont Lajoie (1975) , Sérieux comme le plaisir (1975) , Große Ekstase, Die (1975) , Docteur Françoise Gailland (1975) , Ampélopède, L' (1974) , Plaies et bosses (1974) , Madame Baptiste (1974) , Valseuses, Les (1974) , Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974) , Vogue la galère (1973) , Drakkar, Le (1973) , Maître de pension, Le (1973) , Histoire vraie (1973) , César et Rosalie (1972) , Bar de la fourche, Le (1972) , Figaro-ci, Figaro-là (1972) , Faustine et le bel été (1972) , Prussien, Le (1971)