Isabelle Huppert

Prolific actress and a major figure of French cinema, Isabelle Huppert has won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival. She trained at the École de la Rue Blanche and later at the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique, notably under the guidance of Antoine Vitez. On stage, she has worked with renowned directors including Peter Zadek on Mesure pour Mesure by Shakespeare (1991), and Robert Wilson on Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1993) and later Quartett by Heiner Müller (2006). In 2000, she appeared at the Festival d'Avignon in Médée by Euripides, directed by Jacques Lassalle and performed in the Cour d’honneur of the Palais des Papes. She returned to the stage in 4.48 Psychose by Sarah Kane, directed by Claude Régy, in 2002. She later starred in Hedda Gabler by Ibsen, directed by Éric Lacascade (2005), and in Un tramway nommé désir by Tennessee Williams, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, presented in 2010 at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe. There, she also collaborated with Luc Bondy on Les Fausses Confidences by Marivaux. In 2021, she returned to the Cour d’honneur of the Palais des Papes in La Cerisaie by Chekhov, directed by Tiago Rodrigues.

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