Age: 73
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Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (born 16 March 1953) is a French actress. Described as "one of the best actresses in the world", she is known for her portrayals of cold and disdainful characters devoid of morality. Nominated for a record sixteen César Awards, she has won two. Among other accolades, she has received six Lumières Award nominations, more than any other person, and won four. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her second on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Huppert's first César nomination was for the 1975 film Aloïse. In 1978, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for The Lacemaker. She went on to win two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival, for Violette Nozière (1978) and The Piano Teacher (2001), as well as two Volpi Cups for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, for Story of Women (1988) and La Cérémonie. Her other films in France include Loulou (1980), La Séparation (1994), 8 Women (2002), Gabrielle (2005), Amour (2012), and Things to Come (2016). Among international film's most prolific actresses, Huppert has worked in Italy, Russia, Central Europe, and in Asia. Her English-language films include: Heaven's Gate (1980), The Bedroom Window (1987), I Heart Huckabees (2004), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), Louder Than Bombs (2015), Greta (2018), and Frankie (2019). In 2016, Huppert garnered international acclaim for her performance in Elle, which earned her a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won Best Actress awards from the National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, for both Elle and Things to Come. Also a prolific stage actress, Huppert is the most nominated actress for the Molière Award, with seven nominations. She made her London stage debut in the title role of the play Mary Stuart in 1996, and her New York stage debut in a 2005 production of 4.48 Psychosis. She returned to the New York stage in 2009 to perform in Heiner Müller's Quartett, and in 2014 to star in a Sydney Theatre Company production of The Maids. In 2019, Huppert starred in Florian Zeller's The Mother at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabelle Huppert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In the quiet countryside of southwestern France, a group of friends gather inside the ancient stone vaults of Malevil, a medieval castle turned winery. What begins as an ordinary day is shattered in an instant when a blinding flash tears across the sky—a nuclear strike that wipes out everything beyond the castle’s thick walls. Emerging from the underground chambers, Emmanuel Comte and the survivors face a silent, burned world. Villages have vanished. Fields are dead. The rules of civilization no longer exist. With supplies dwindling and danger closing in, Malevil becomes both their sanctuary and their responsibility. Determined to rebuild some form of human community, Emmanuel leads the group—old friends, farmers, and children—through the brutal realities of survival. But hope is fragile. As scattered survivors arrive, alliances form and fracture. And when a ruthless, self-proclaimed leader rises from a neighboring settlement, Malevil is forced into a confrontation where morality becomes a luxury they can no longer afford. In a world burned clean of order and innocence, the fight for survival becomes a fight for the soul of humanity. Trust is perilous, leadership carries a cost, and rebuilding civilization may demand more sacrifice than anyone imagined. A tense, character-driven post-apocalyptic drama, Malevil explores resilience, community, and the thin line between survival and savagery—where the future of a new world is shaped by the choices of a few.
