Isabelle Huppert
World-renowned for her work in cinema, the winner of two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Isabelle Huppert learned the ropes at the École de la Rue Blanche—now the ENSATT—then at the National conservatory, notably with Antoine Vitez. Simultaneously with her work with the greatest film directors, Isabelle Huppert also works with the most challenging and prestigious theatre directors. She appears in Peter Zadek's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure in 1991. Robert Wilson has her speak Virginia Woolf's words in Orlando in 1993, then Heiner Müller's in Quartett in 2006. In 2000, Isabelle Huppert makes a grand entrance in Avignon with Euripides's Medea, directed by Jacques Lassalle in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des papes, before appearing in Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis, directed by Claude Régy in 2002.In 2005, she is in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, directed by Éric Lacascade. She takes part in Krzysztof Warlikowski's adaptation of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire in 2010 at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, where she then works with Luc Bondy for his direction of Marivaux's Les Fausses Confidences.
