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 The Lacemaker, as a simple-minded girl who falls in love with - and is betrayed by - a student, Jean-Luc Godard's Every Man for Himself, as a prostitute, and Maurice Pialat's Loulou, 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 and has an extremely productive collaboration with Claude Chabrol, who cast her in several movies, including Violette Nozière, in which she played a young woman who murders her parents, and Story of Women, 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 The King's Daughters and Michael Haneke's controversial The Piano Player, as a sexually repressed piano teacher.



Les soeurs fâchées (2004): €220,000

Sister of Elisabeth Huppert. She is the youngest of five children, three sisters and a brother: director Caroline Huppert, actress/writer/director Elisabeth Huppert, Jacqueline and Rémi. She is, by far, the actress who has had the most films (16) in the Cannes's official competition, and one of the four who have won the Best Interpretation Awards twice - for Violette Nozière (1978) in 1978 and La pianiste (2001) in 2001 (the others are Vanessa Redgrave for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) in 1966 and _Isadora (1968)_ in 1968, Helen Mirren for Cal (1984) in 1984 and The Madness of King George (1994) in 1995, and Barbara Hershey for Shy People (1987) in 1987 and A World Apart (1988) in 1988). Has recorded an album with French singer/"rock star" Jean-Louis Murat called "Madame Deshoulières". They sing/recite lyrics taken from poems of nearly unknown 16th century writer Antoinette Deshoulières. (Album released in France by "Labels" on 26 March 2001.) Isabelle Huppert starred with her daughter Lolita Chammah in three films, La vie moderne (2000), Malina (1991) and Une affaire de femmes (1988). Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. Friend of Kim Cattrall. Is interested in photography. Auditioned for the Holly Hunter role in The Piano (1993). In the '70s, Isabelle Huppert shared an apartment with Isabelle Adjani and with the late actress Christine Pascal.