All All. Sign In. Best Actress in List activity. Judi Dench. Actress Music Department Director Skyfall Iris - Judi Dench was nominated for an Oscar for this role. Isabelle Huppert. Actress Music Department Producer Elle Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert who was a teacher of English , she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset 's "Un caprice".
She then studied at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique and followed an illustrious theatrical career, which includes Ivan Turgenev 's "A Month in the Country", Euripides ' "Medea" title role etc. She made her movie debut in Le Prussien and soon became one of the top actresses of her generation, giving fine performances in important films, like Claude Goretta 's The Lacemaker , as a simple-minded girl who falls in love with - and is betrayed by - a student, Jean-Luc Godard 's Every Man for Himself , as a prostitute, and Maurice Pialat 's Loulou , as an upper-class woman who is physically attracted by a young vagabond.
She made an inconsequential US debut in Otto Preminger 's Rosebud before playing a brothel madam in Michael Cimino 's disastrous Heaven's Gate , but she fared better in Curtis Hanson 's The Bedroom Window as an adulteress who witnesses an attack. Huppert has an extremely productive collaboration with Claude Chabrol , who cast her in several movies, including Violette , in which she played a woman who murders her parents, and Story of Women , in which she gave an excellent performance as a shameless abortionist, the last woman to be executed in France.
La pianiste. Halle Berry. Actress Producer Director Catwoman Her father was African-American and her mother is of mostly English and German descent.
Halle first came into the spotlight at seventeen years when she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant, representing the state of Ohio in and, a year later in , when she was the first runner-up in the Miss U. After participating in the pageant, Halle became a model.
