Isabelle Huppert Net Worth

Isabelle Huppert's Quotes

• Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
• 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.
• I think being actor is more difficult for men. The very best actors are not afraid of playing with their own femininity and leaving aside power struggles with the director. Because there's no getting around it: on a film set, it's the director who has the power. This fact is often more difficult to accept for an actor than for an actress.
• I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way. I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything. To say, "I want to be an actress" is to say, "I can't do anything else, so let's try to be an actress.

Interesting Facts about Isabelle Huppert

1. Saw the French team's victory at the Stade de France in the final of XVI FIFA World Cup 1998 (1998) together with her son.
2. The youngest of five siblings, she has three sisters and a brother: academic scholar Jacqueline Huppert (b. 1944), author Rémi Huppert (b. 1946), actress/writer/director Elisabeth Huppert (b. 1948) and director Caroline Huppert (b. 1950).
3. Mother, with boyfriend Ronald Chammah (they never married), of Lolita Chammah (b. 1983), Lorenzo Chammah (b. 1988) and Angelo Chammah (b. 1997).
4. 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 Nozière (1978) in 1978 and La pianiste (2001) in 2001 (the others are Vanessa Redgrave for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) in 1966 and Isadora (1968) in 1968, Helen Mirren for Cal (1984) in 1984 and The Madness of King George (1994) in 1995, and Barbara Hershey for Shy People (1987) in 1987 and A World Apart (1988) in 1988).
5. Most nominated actress for the César Award. As of 2017, she has been nominated 16 times, and won Best Actress twice, for La cérémonie (1995) and for Elle (2016). She has 14 nominations for Best Actress and 2 nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
6. 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.)
7. Plays the piano.
8. Isabelle Huppert starred with her daughter Lolita Chammah in five films: Copacabana (2010), La vie moderne (2000), Malina (1991), Une affaire de femmes (1988) and Barrage (2017).
9. During the shooting of 8 femmes (2002), 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.
10. Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984.
11. Graduated from the CNSAD (National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris)
12. Friend of Jacqueline Bisset, Daphna Kastner and Kim Cattrall.
13. Born to Raymond Huppert (1914-2003), an engineer, and Annick Huppert (1914-1990), an English teacher. Her maternal great-grandmother Jeanne, also known as Marthe Callot Bertrand, was one of the four Callot sisters. The sisters founded Callot Soeurs, a leading fashion design house.
14. Her stage performance as "Hedda Gabler" in Ibsen's play was critically acclaimed and awarded at the Mostra in Venice (2005).
15. Auditioned for the Holly Hunter role in The Piano (1993).
16. Appointed the president of the jury for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival [January 2, 2009].
17. In the early '70s, Huppert shared an apartment with Isabelle Adjani and the late actress Christine Pascal.
18. In 2012, 32 years after the premiere of Heaven's Gate (1980), a newly restored director's cut was re-released to acclaim in New York City and Venice, just as Huppert was featured in the year's Oscar-winning foreign-language film Amour (2012).
19. She was Michael Haneke's first choice for the role of Anna in Funny Games (1997), but she declined the offer because she was scared to do it. The role went to Susanne Lothar instead.
20. Michael Haneke is her favorite director to work with.