French actress Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert has been a staple in French movies for over thirty years.

Her film credits include 1982's Coup de Foudre (Entre Nous in America), about a close female friendship in postwar France, and 2001's Le pianiste (The Piano Teacher), about a sexually repressed musician.

Like many European actresses, Isabelle Huppert longed to make it in Hollywood. She should have been careful of what she wished for; she appeared in the infamous Heaven's Gate in 1980. Asked about that disaster, Huppert said, in reference to herself and French actresses in general, "We are fragile but we do not collapse."

Another American movie she appeared in, the 1987 thriller The Bedroom Window, was better received.