Isabelle Huppert

Sister of Elisabeth Huppert.

Saw the French teams victory at the Stade de France in the final of "XVI FIFA World Cup 1998" together with her son.

The youngest of five siblings, she has three sisters and a brother: academic scholar Jacqueline Huppert (b. 1944), author Rmi Huppert (b. 1946), actress/writer/director Elisabeth Huppert (b. 1948) and director Caroline Huppert (b. 1950).

Mother of 3 children: Lolita Chammah (b. October 1983), Lorenzo Chammah (b. January 1986) and Angelo (b. August 1997), all fathered by Ronald Chammah , who directed her in Milan noir .

She is the actor who has had the most films in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival (20 films, as of 2017), and one of only four actresses who have won the Best Interpretation Awards twice - for Violette Nozire in 1978 and La pianiste in 2001 (the others are Vanessa Redgrave for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment in 1966 and Isadora 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 Csar Award. As of 2017, she has been nominated 16 times, and won Best Actress twice, for La crmonie and for Elle . She has 14 nominations for Best Actress and 2 nominations for Best Supporting Actress.

Has recorded an album with French singer/"rock star" Jean-Louis Murat called "Madame Deshoulires". They sing/recite lyrics taken from poems of nearly unknown 16th century writer Antoinette Deshoulires. (Album released in France by "Labels" on 26 March 2001.)

Plays the piano.

Isabelle Huppert starred with her daughter Lolita Chammah in five films: Copacabana , La vie moderne , Malina , Une affaire de femmes and Barrage .

During the shooting of 8 femmes , Isabelle was always hungry at 5 P.M. and had to eat bread. As this made Danielle Darrieux also feel hungry, they shared their bread.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984.

Graduated from the CNSAD (National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris)

Friend of Jacqueline Bisset.

Born to Raymond Huppert (1914-2003), an engineer, and Annick Huppert (1914-1990), an English teacher.

Is interested in photography.

Her stage performance as "Hedda Gabler" in Ibsens play was critically acclaimed and awarded at the Mostra in Venice.

Auditioned for the Holly Hunter role in The Piano .

Appointed the president of the jury for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival [January 2, 2009].

In the 70s, Huppert shared an apartment with Isabelle Adjani and the late actress Christine Pascal.

In 2012, 32 years after the premiere of Heavens Gate , a newly restored directors cut was re-released to acclaim in New York City and Venice, just as Huppert was featured in the years Oscar-winning foreign-language film Amour .

She was Michael Haneke s first choice for the role of Anna in Funny Games , but she declined the offer because she was scared to do it. The role went to Susanne Lothar instead.

Michael Haneke is her favorite director to work with.

Her father was from a Jewish family (from Alsace-Lorraine and Slovakia). He hid in North Africa during World War II and the Holocaust. Her mother was of French (Catholic) descent. They married in 1940.

In 2012, she starred in two films that competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival; Amour and Da-reun na-ra-e-seo .

For her performance in Elle , shes one of only 3 actresses to have won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama for a foreign language film, the other two being Anouk Aime in Un homme et une femme and Liv Ullmann in Utvandrarna .

Is one of 13 French actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination. The others in chronological order are: Claudette Colbert , Colette Marchand , Leslie Caron , Simone Signoret , Anouk Aime , Isabelle Adjani , Marie-Christine Barrault , Catherine Deneuve , Juliette Binoche , Marion Cotillard , Brnice Bejo and Emmanuelle Riva.

Is one of 7 French actresses to be nominated for an Academy Award for a French-language performance. The others in chronological order are Anouk Aime , Isabelle Adjani , Marie-Christine Barrault , Catherine Deneuve , Marion Cotillard and Emmanuelle Riva.

She worked with three directors who all died in the same year : Michael Cimino , Curtis Hanson and Andrzej Wajda.

She has one grandson, Gabriel, (born in January 2013) from Lolita Chammah.

Owner of the repertory cinema Christine 21 in Paris, which her son Lorenzo Chammah curates.

Was once in a relationship with Daniel Toscan du Plantier.

Sister-in-law of Laurent Heynemann.

Aunt of Justine Heynemann and Baptiste Heynemann.

Has been friends with director Mrta Mszros since their collaboration in rksg . She was originally supposed to have a role in Mszros 2017 release Aurora Borealis: szaki fny , but eventually withdrew from the project in order to star in Elle .

A script, even it differs from filmmaker to filmmaker, never tells the,whole story; there are always elements that need to be invented. As,soon as one decides to take a role after having read the script, the,various elements begin to fall into place. A character begins to take,shape. And regardless of whether the information given is ample or not,it appears to one, strangely, as an apparition. From that moment, one,knows whether or not this figure will be able to pass through one; if,there is a meeting point.

Body language in the cinema is thus very particular. The screen can,transmit an image very different of the body. In life, we see each,other by facing each other. In the cinema, one is astonished to,discover oneself from another angle. But at the same time there is no,obligation to look. Serge Daney used to say that the work of actors is,the make movies, and the work of the spectator is to look at them.

A movie is a way to mingle and flow between cultures and civilizations.

Movies give news from the countries where they are made on issues that,preoccupy its people and stories from a director. At the end however,we remain a part of a universal language: the one of the cinema.

You are either good or not. Growing up, I was free to do what I wanted,to do. I had a classical education and a certain curiosity for things.

You can come from anywhere, in terms of social background, and be who,you want to be. There is no explanation to why you become an actor -,that desire springs out of nowhere.

[on how much of herself does she incorporate into her roles] A role is,more like a trace rather than an imprint. When I act, I am at the same,time myself and the self behind the mask of fiction. From the very,beginning, and still to this day, I played many characters like,survivors and victims, and I always felt they were essential to those,films, female leads not in the shadow of men, and central to the,overall story. That was my feminism.

I really admire people who don’t need to live surrounded by lots of stuff. My bedroom is piled up with clothes and books, papers and photographs. I like to collect things, anything I can grab from wherever I’m travelling. I think it’s the sign of slight anxiety to always want something around you to represent a good moment you had, to hang on to the leftovers. But then they’re a pleasure to look at too, so it’s not all negative.