Isabelle Huppert
16 March, 1953
| 1.57 m
Actress
Music Department
Producer
Biography
Isabelle Huppert was born March 16, 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert (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 Le Prussien (1971) and soon became one of the top actresses of her generation, giving fine performances in important films, like Claude Goretta's Koronczarka (1977), as a simple-minded girl who falls in love with - and is betrayed by - a student, Jean-Luc Godard's Ratuj kto może (życie) (1980), as a prostitute, and Maurice Pialat's Lulu (1980), as an upper-class woman who is physically attracted by a young vagabond. She made an inconsequential US debut in Otto Preminger's Różyczka (1975) before playing a brothel madam in Michael Cimino's disastrous Wrota niebios (1980), but she fared better in Curtis Hanson's Widok z sypialni (1987) (as an adulteress who witnesses an attack). Huppert has an extremely productive collaboration with Claude Chabrol, who cast her in several movies, including Violette Nozière (1978), in which she played a woman who murders her parents, and Sprawa kobiet (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 Dziewczęta z Saint-Cyr (2000) and Michael Haneke's controversial Pianistka (2001), as a sexually repressed piano teacher.
Movies
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
A young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one. She embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook -- but the very future of the House of Dior.
A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.
A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.
The fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer.
A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
An amnesiac wakes up on an NYC alley. He meets Isabelle, an ex nun now erotic writer, at a diner and follows her home. She helps him find his identity. Then there's Sofia, the porn star.
A young executive starts an affair with his boss's wife which then escalates into a nightmare after he lies to the police in order to protect her.
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remar... Read all
A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.
Paris, France, 1935, and a young actress has just been acquitted of murdering a famous French Producer. However, this is where the story just begins. Is she really innocent?, or has she gotten away with Murder?
Life for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened.