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.
Soeurs fâchées, Les (2004): €220,000
Sister of Elisabeth Huppert. She was present at the Stade De France in 1998 with her son to see France win the Football World Cup. The youngest of the five children. She has 3 sisters and 1 brother: director Caroline Huppert, actress/writer/director Elisabeth Huppert, Jacqueline and Rémi. Mother of 3 children: Lolita (b. October 1983), Lorenzo (b. January 1986) and Angelo (b. August 1997), all fathered by Ronald Chammah, who directed her in Milan noir. 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 in 1978 and The Piano Player in 2001 (the others are Vanessa Redgrave for Morgan! in 1966 and _Isadora (1968)_ in 1968, Helen Mirren for Cal in 1984 and The Madness of King George in 1995, and Barbara Hershey for Shy People in 1987 and A World Apart in 1988). Most nominated actress for the Cesar Award. She has been nominated 13 times, and won once, for Cérémonie, La. (2007). 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.) Plays the piano. Isabelle Huppert starred with her daughter Lolita Chammah in three films, Modern Life, Malina and Story of Women. During the shooting of the movie 8 Women, Isabelle was always hungry around 5 o'clock and had to eat the bread. This made Danielle Darrieux feel hungry too. So everyday at 5 o'clock, they would share a piece of bread together. Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. Graduated from the CNSAD (National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris) Friend of Kim Cattrall. Daughter of Annick and Raymond Huppert.