The Guardian: Parallel Tales review – Isabelle Huppert pens furtive sexual fantasy for Vincent Cassel in Asghar Farhadi’s latest
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Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in more than 120 feature films, mostly in starring roles. Regarded as one of the most respected actresses in French cinema, she has appeared in films directed by Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard and Michael Haneke. She has also starred in numerous stage productions, in Paris and around the world.
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2026· 4 entries
The Guardian: Mary Said What She Said review – Isabelle Huppert shimmers as Mary, Queen of Scots
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The Guardian: The Blood Countess review – Isabelle Huppert reigns supreme in a surreal vampire fantasia
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Career landmark: president of the Cinémathèque Française (2026).
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: Isabelle Huppert to headline 2026 Adelaide festival in ‘astounding’ role as Mary, Queen of Scots
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Huppert has starred in LUZ as Sabine, directed by Flora Lau
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2024· 8 entries
The Guardian: ‘I never really learned anything from anybody’: Isabelle Huppert on 50 years in film
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The Guardian: The Crime is Mine review – Isabelle Huppert and co revel in Ozon’s frothy French crime caper
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The Guardian: A Traveler’s Needs review – Isabelle Huppert hypnotises in cool Korean comedy of manners
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The Guardian: Post your questions for Isabelle Huppert
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The Guardian: Mary Said What She Said review – Isabelle Huppert dazzles in a one-woman tour de force
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The Guardian: Isabelle Huppert: ‘I was never the woman behind the man… the only place I could take was the main place’
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Huppert presided as the Jury President for the main competition of the 81st edition of Venice Film Festival
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Starred in her third collaboration with Hong Sang-soo in A Traveler's Needs that competed at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: La Syndicaliste review – Isabelle Huppert is fascinating in blood-boiling injustice drama
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The Guardian: Isabelle Huppert: ‘When you’re an actor, you keep secrets’
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After having premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2022
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2022· 1 entry
Won Honorary Golden Bear (2022).
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2020· 1 entry
The New York Times named her one the greatest actors of the 21st century
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2019· 1 entry
Played the title role in Florian Zeller's play The Mother acting opposite Chris Noth at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York
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2018· 1 entry
Acted as herself in the French comedy series Call My Agent
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2017· 7 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for Elle (2017).
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Awarded César Award for Best Actress for Elle (2017).
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Awarded Honorary Molière Award (2017).
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Awarded Lumière Award for Best Actress (2017).
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Awarded Europe Theatre Prize (2017).
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Awarded Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead (2017).
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Was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize
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2016· 3 entries
Awarded Honorary Lumière Award (2016).
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Huppert starred in Krzysztof Warlikowski's stage production of Phèdre(s), which toured Europe as well as BAM in New York
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Starred in two films that received widespread critical acclaim: Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come, which premiered at the Berlinale, and Paul Verhoeven's Elle, which premiered at Cannes
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the National Order of Merit (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
The production toured in New York as a part of the Lincoln Center Festival
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2013· 1 entry
Co-starred in Sydney Theatre Company's The Maids by Jean Genet, with Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Debicki and directed by Benedict Andrews in a new English translation by Andrews and Andrew Upton
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Le martyre de Saint Sébastien”.
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Starred in two films that competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival: Michael Haneke's Amour and Hong Sang-soo's In Another Country, with the former winning the top prize
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2010· 2 entries
Won the Best Actress award from the 34th Cairo International Film Festival, for her role in Copacabana
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Huppert starred in the 11th-season finale of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and was cast in the film Captive by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award (2009).
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Also starred in the film White Material; Sura Wood of The Associated Press declared that its director, Claire Denis, was "helped immeasurably by an astringent, fully committed performance from her leading lady, a gau
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And her jury awarded the Palme d'Or to The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke, her director on The Piano Teacher and Time of the Wolf
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2008).
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Received the Stanislavsky Award for outstanding achievement in acting, and devotion to the principles of the Stanislavski's system
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Lumière Award for Best Actress (2006).
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2005· 2 entries
Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2005).
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In the title role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris
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2004· 1 entry
Starred in Christophe Honoré's Ma Mère, based on a novel by Georges Bataille
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded Donostia Award (2003).
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Awarded Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress for 8 Women (2003).
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Awarded Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress for The Piano Teacher (2003).
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2002· 4 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Actress for 8 Women (2002).
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Awarded San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for The Piano Teacher (2002).
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Earned Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution (2002).
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Acted in the dark comedy musical film 8 Women, directed by François Ozon
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2001· 5 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Actress for The Piano Teacher (2001).
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for The Piano Teacher (2001).
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Awarded Lumière Award for Best Actress (2001).
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Released album “Madame Deshoulières”.
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For playing Erika Kohut in The Piano Teacher, and in 2002 with the entire cast of 8 Women (directed by François Ozon)
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1996· 4 entries
Awarded César Award for Best Actress for La Cérémonie (1996).
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Awarded Lumière Award for Best Actress for La Cérémonie (1996).
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For her work in La Cérémonie (1995), and in 2017 for her role in Elle (2016)
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And her New York stage debut in a 2005 production of 4
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1995· 1 entry
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Huppert collaborated with American director Hal Hartley on Amateur, one of her few English-language performances since Heaven's Gate
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1988· 2 entries
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress (1988).
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For her part in Une affaire de femmes (tied with Shirley MacLaine), and in 1995 for La Cérémonie (tied with her partner in the movie, Sandrine Bonnaire)
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress for The Lacemaker (1980).
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Acted in Jean-Luc Godard's Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980)
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1978· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for The Lacemaker (1978).
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Violette Nozière (1978).
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For her role in Violette Nozière by Claude Chabrol (tied with Jill Clayburgh) and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke
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1976· 1 entry
Acted in Bertrand Tavernier's The Judge and the Assassin and Christine Lipinska's I Am Pierre Riviere
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1974· 1 entry
Acted in Alain Robbe-Grillet's art film Successive Slidings of Pleasure and Rachel Weinberg's fantasy film L'Ampélopède
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1971· 1 entry
With Le Prussien, and her feature film debut in Nina Companeez's romantic comedy Faustine et le Bel Été (1972)
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1968· 1 entry
Aged 15, Huppert enrolled at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Versailles, where she won a prize for her acting
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-03-16.
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