She was awarded Best Actress in the Golden Globes and Caesar Awards, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. And all for the same movie: "She". Before him, who opens a new chapter in his career, Isabelle Huppert, associated with auteur cinema and this great freedom in his choice of roles, has more than 50 films to his credit. Overview of its beautiful roles that have marked us:
- Jacqueline in "Les Valseuses" pi
This is one of his first roles. The film, worn by Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere, reveals the talents of Isabelle Huppert, a young beginner who plays a young issue of a middle class who is being duped.
- Rose in "The Judge and the Assassin"
At the end of the 70s, Bertrand Tavernier offered him a second important role alongside Philippe Noiret in his film "The Judge and the Assassin". She plays Rose, both victim and fighter, who manages to make its place between two sizes: Philippe Noiret and Michel Galabru.
- Beatrice in "The lacemaker"
The Franco-Swiss film marks a turning point in his career: it is at this moment that it takes off. His role in this film will earn him nominations for BAFTA and Donatello (the English and Italian equivalent of Caesar). She plays the role of an introverted shampooer whose existence changes after a disappointment in love. This is not the first time she plays a character "victim" and will then try to detach this label. With it, she will receive the prize of "best female hope" BAFTA.
- Violet in "Violette Nozière"
Claude Chabrol will help him out of these fragile roles with this film. Thanks to him, she became "national star" and received the prize for female interpretation at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978. She gained notoriety and credibility, showing that she is capable of playing strong roles.
- Nelly in "Loulou"
In the mauritian film Pialat, she plays Nelly, tired of her little life row with André, her husband. She will then meet her lover, Loulou, played by Gerard Depardieu and find the joy of living and new sensations.
- Marguerite Gautier in "the lady with camellias"
A role that was in the sights of Isabelle Adjani, his rival of the time, and that the latter will finally play in the theater. In this role of Marguerite Gautier, Isabelle Huppert excels and presents all her talent.
- Emma in "Madame Bovary"
At the beginning of the 90s, Claude Chabrol offers him a new role which shows again his acting actress. She has become Madame Bovary to the point of disturbing and reinforcing her "romantic aura".
- Erika in "The Pianist"
It is said that Natalie Portman was inspired by his role for his interpretation in "Black Swan". Adapted from the eponymous novel by the Nobel Literary Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek , the film features a severe piano teacher, Erika, wiped out by her mother's sexual frustration and dependence. Until she meets one of her students who will change her life. An incredible performance that earned him his second prize for interpretation in Cannes.
- Augustine, in "8 women"
For this film by François Ozon, she embodies a hysterical and hypochondriac woman who engages in a real physical transformation. A real feat that completely forget who is the actress behind this personage.
- Isabelle in "Valley Of Love"
For this film, presented in Cannes, Isabelle Huppert reform a duet with Gerard Depardieu, 35 years after "Loulou". Together, they embody a divorced, but still complicit, couple who leave for the California desert in search of their son. A very real movie, in which they wear their real names.
- Michèle in "She"
For the film that marks a new chapter in her life, Isabelle Huppert plays Michèle, a woman at the head of a big company, very strong in her life. But everything will switch when she is attacked and raped at home by a stranger. She will hunt him down until a strange game sets in between them.
