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I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

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Isabelle Huppert
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
Film Actor
Film Actress
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert
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