ProfileActivities : Actress
Represented by : VMA
Agent : Isabelle de la Patellière
Official website : www.isabellehuppert.com/
Latest filmsWhite Material(2007), from Claire Denis
Medée Miracle(2007), from Tonino De Bernardi
Home(2007), from Ursula Meier
The Sea Wall(2007), from Rithy Panh
America(2006), from Jerzy Skolimowski
Nue propriété(2006), from Joachim Lafosse
Madre e Ossa(2006), from Alessandro Capone
Cactus (The)(2005), from Gérard Bitton, Michel Munz
Ivresse du pouvoir (L')(2005), from Claude Chabrol
Me and My Sister(2004), from Alexandra Leclère
Complete filmography
BiographyStudent at the Drama Academy of Versailles, near Paris, Isabelle Huppert wins the Interpretation Prize for
Un Caprice
by Alfred de Musset. After studying Russian, she enters the National Drama Academy, where she follows Antoine Vitez’ courses.
Her cinematographic career begins with
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
by Nina Companeez and soon lands minor parts in some of the most outstanding films of the 70’ such as
Going Places
by Bertrand Blier or
The Judge and the Assassin
by Bertrand Tavernier.
In 1976, the general public discovers her thanks to her performance in
The Lacemaker
by Claude Goretta. Two years later, she wins, at only 25, the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance in
Violette Nozière
by Claude Chabrol. From then on, Isabelle Huppert is engaged by the most demanding French directors, in particular by Jean-Luc Godard in
Sauve qui peut (la vie)
and
Passion
, then by Maurice Pialat in
Loulou
.
In 1981, she starts an international career thanks to Michael Cimino’
Heaven’s Gate
. She is then directed by Jospeh Losey in
The Trout
and by Andrzej Wajda in
The Possessed
. In the same time, the success of
Clean Up
by Bertrand Tavernier and
Coup de Foudre
by Diane Kurys secure her popularity in France. Isabelle Huppert develops an intense collaboration with Claude Chabrol and becomes his fetish actress. Under his direction she plays
Madame Bovary
and impressed everyone in
A Judgement in Stone
, for which she received an Award at the 1995 Venice Film Festival.
Her career goes equally toward comedy with
8 Women
by François Ozon or
Me and My Sister
by Alexandra Leclère as well as towards more dramatic films like
The Piano Teacher
by Michale Haneke (Best Actress in Cannes 2001),
Les Destinées
by Olivier Assayas or the more recent
Ma Mère
by Christophe Honoré.
In 2005, she receives a Career Achievement Award in Venice where
Gabrielle
, her last film in date, directed by Patrice Chéreau was screened.
Festival SelectionsAwardsRemarksINTERNATIONAL CAREER :
2004 – I Heart Huckabees – Dir: D. O Russell (USA);
1991 – Malina – Dir: W. Schroeter (Germany/Austria);
1980 – Heaven’s Gate – Dir: M. Cimino (USA)
TV:
2001 – Médée – Dir: D. Kent;
1996 – Les Voyages de Gulliver (Voice) – Dir: C. Sturridge (USA/UK);
1977 – On ne badine pas avec l’amour – Dir: C. Huppert;
1974 – Plaies et bosses – Dir: Y.-A. Hubert;
1974 – Madame Baptiste – Dir: C. Santelli;
1973 – Vogue la galère – Dir: R. Rouleau;
1973 – Le Drakkar – Dir: J. Pierre;
1973 – Le Maître de pension – Dir: M. Moussy;
1973 – Histoire vraie – Dir: C. Santelli;
1972 – Figaro-ci, Figaro-là – Dir: H. Bromberger;
1971 – Le Prussien – Dir: J. L’Hôte
TV SERIES :
1978 – Il était un musicien “Monsieur Saint-Saëns” – Dir: C. Chabrol;
1971 – Les Cents livres de hommes “Du côté de chez Swann” – Dir: C. Santelli
THEATRE:
2005 – Hedda Gabler by H. Ibsen (Dir: E. Lacascade);
2003 – Jeanne d’Arc by P. Claudel & A. Honneger (Dir: J. Webb);
2002 – 4.48 Psychose by S. Kane (Dir: C. Régy);
2000 – Médée by Euripides (Dir: J. Lassalle);
1996 – Mary Stuart by Schiller (Dir: H. David);
1993 – Orlando by W. Woolf (Dir: B. Wilson);
1992 – Jeanne au bûcher by P. Claudel (Dir: C. Régy);
1991 – Mesure pour mesure by W. Shakespeare (Dir: P. Zadek);
1989 – Un mois à la campagne by I. Tougeniev (Dir: B. Murat);
1977 – On ne badine pas avec l’amour by A. de Musset (Dir: C. Huppert);
1975 – Voyage au bout de ma marmite by E. Labiche (Dir: C. Huppert);
1975 – Pour qui sonne le glas by E. Hemingway (Dir: R. Hossein);
1974 – Viendra-t-il un autre été by J.-J. Varoujean (Dir: Petit Odéon);
1973 – La Véritable histoire de Jack l’éventreur (Dir: Caroline Huppert)