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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.
Isabelle Huppert
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
for Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Robin Hood and the House of Plantagenet (TV-Series)
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In early 1191, with King Richard away on the Third Crusade, England is left in the hands of a fractured regency. Exploiting the absence, Queen Mother Eleanor of Aquitaine secures a return for her exiled son, Prince John. His arrival ignites a powder keg; as the regents William de Longchamp and Hugh de Puiset descend into open conflict, John moves swiftly to seize the crown. But the coup is no accident of opportunity. Behind John’s ambition stands Eleanor, the true "Puppet Master." Having previously manipulated Richard into betraying his father, Henry II, Eleanor found her eldest son too difficult to control once he took the throne. By engineering Richard's departure for the Holy Land, she cleared the board for John—a far more malleable pawn—to take his place. However, a rival player emerges to challenge Eleanor’s control: Alys of France, the former mistress of the late Henry II. Once betrothed to Richard, Alys was discarded when Eleanor orchestrated his marriage to Berengaria of Navarre to sideline her. Now, seeking the crown she was twice denied, Alys maneuvers to take her place beside John. As the Prince is torn between his mother’s calculated dominance and Alys’s vengeful ambition, the common people—led by the outlaw Robin Hood—become the collateral damage of a dynasty at war with itself.
