All All. Sign In. Les meilleurs acteurs et actrices. List activity. Isabelle Huppert. Actress Music Department Producer Elle 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 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 an inconsequential US debut in Otto Preminger 's Rosebud before playing a brothel madam in Michael Cimino 's disastrous Heaven's Gate , but she fared better in Curtis Hanson 's The Bedroom Window as an adulteress who witnesses an attack. Huppert has an extremely productive collaboration with Claude Chabrol , who cast her in several movies, including Violette , in which she played a 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.
Actor Producer Director Cyrano de Bergerac After minor roles in cinema, at last, he got his chance in Bertrand Blier 's Going Places That film established a new type of hero in the French cinema and the actor's popularity grew enormously. Later, he diversified his screen image and became the leading French actor of the 80s and 90s.
