Isabelle Huppert in Conversation

Nominated 14 times for a César Award, winning  La Cérémonie; twice won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival (Violette Nozière by Claude Chabrol, The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke), twice received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, and in 2005 a Special Lion for her role in Gabrielle. Nominated for Best Actress by European Film Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, she was President of the Jury of the 62^nd Cannes Film Festival and has been described as “arguably the world’s greatest screen actress” (S.T. Van Airsdale).   She is an equally remarkable stage actress: Hedda Gabler, Un tramway nommé désir, Bob Wilson’s fetish actress in Orlando and Quartett, or co-star with Cate Blanchett in The Maids at New York City Center. The accolades are worldwide. “Isabelle Huppert …is fearless. She is in complete command of a face that regards the void with blankness.”