1. Isabelle Huppert
2. Juliette Binoche
3. Nathalie Baye
4. Elodie Bouchez
5. Virginie Ledoyen/Miou-Miou (tie)

I actually have some big news. I am officially changing my favorite actress.

It's been Juliette Binoche since 1993. But I've changed it to Isabelle Huppert. You are the first to hear about this major new development!

It's not that I don't still love Ms. Binoche and think she's amazing. But she doesn't seem to work enough, and although I've liked most of her recent films -- Chocolat, Widow of SP was fine, Code Inconnu was good as was Alice et Martin. But, you see, it's not that Juliette has slipped in my

But Ms. Huppert works all the time and makes more interesting choices. And recently, The Swindle (1997), The School of Flesh (1998), Merci pour le chocolat (2000) The Piano Teacher (2001) and 8 femmes (2002) are all great.

Here's some filmographies:

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Juliette Binoche; born 9 March 1964, Paris, France.

Filmography

Dorothée, danseuse de corde (1983) (TV)
Fort bloqué (1983) (TV)
Liberty belle (1983) .... La fille du rallye
Les Nanas/The Chicks (1984) .... Antoinette
Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1985) .... Esther
Le Meilleur de la vie (1985) .... Une amie de Véronique au bar
Rendez-vous (1985) .... Nina
Adieu blaireau (1985) .... Brigitte B.
La Vie de famille/Family Life (1985)
Hail Mary (1985) .... Juliette
Mauvais sang/Bad Blood (1986) .... Anna
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) .... Tereza
Un tour de manège (1989) .... Elsa

Women & Men 2 (1991) (TV) .... Mara
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf/Lovers on the Bridge (1991) .... Michèle Stalens
Damage (1992) .... Anna Barton
Wuthering Heights (1992) .... Cathy/Catherine
Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) .... Julie
Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) .... Julie
Trois couleurs: White (1994) .... Julie
The Horseman on the Roof (1995) .... Pauline de Théus
The English Patient (1996) .... Hana
A Couch in New York (1996) .... Beatrice Saulnier
Alice et Martin (1998) .... Alice
The Children of the Century (1999) .... George Sand

Chocolat (2000) .... Vianne
Code inconnu (2000) .... Anne
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000) .... Pauline (Madame La)
Jet Lag/Décalage horaire (2002) .... Rose
Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2003) .... Germaine
The Assumption (2004) .... Lucrezia Buti

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Isabelle Huppert; born 16 March 1955, Paris, France.

Filmography

Le Prussien (1971) (TV) .... Elisabeth
The Bar at the Crossing/Le Bar de la fourche, Le (1972) .... Annie
César et Rosalie (1972) .... Marite
Figaro-ci, Figaro-là (1972) (TV) .... Pauline
Faustine (1972)
Successive Slidings of Pleasure/Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1973) (uncredited) .... Bit
Vogue la galère (1973) (TV) .... Clotilde
Le Maître de pension (1973) (TV) .... Annie
Histoire vraie (1973) (TV) .... Adelaïde
L' Ampélopède (1974) .... La conteuse
Serious as Pleasure/Sérieux comme le plaisir (1974)
Plaies et bosses (1974) (TV) .... Patsy Lackan
Going Places/Les Valseuses (1974) .... Jacqueline
No Time for Breakfast/Docteur Françoise Gailland (1975) .... Elisabeth Gailland
Le Grand délire (1975)
Aloïse (1975) .... Aloïse enfant/Aloïse as a child
Rosebud (1975) .... Helene Nikolaos
The Common Man/Dupont-Lajoie (1975) .... Brigitte Colin
The Indians Are Still Far Away/Les Indiens sont encore loin (1976) .... Jenny
Le Petit Marcel (1976) .... Yvette
I Am Pierre Riviere (1976) .... Aimée
The Judge and the Assassin (1976) .... Rose
On ne badine pas avec l'amour (1977) (TV) .... Camille
Spoiled Children/Des enfants gâtés (1977) (uncredited) .... La secrétaire/Secretary
The Lacemaker/La Dentellière (1977) .... Pomme
Monsieur Saint-Saëns (1978) (TV) .... La jeune fille
Violette Nozière (1978) .... Violette Nozière
Slow Motion (1979) .... Isabelle Rivière
Return to the Beloved (1979) .... Jeanne Kern
The Bronte Sisters (1979) .... Anne Brontë

Lady of the Camelias (1980) .... Alphonsine Plessis
The Heiresses/The Inheritance (1980)
Heaven's Gate (1980) .... Ella Watson
Loulou (1980) .... Nelly
Coup de torchon/Clean Slate (1981) .... Rose
Deep Water/Eaux profondes (1981) .... Melanie
Les Ailes de la colombe (1981) .... Marie
La Truite (1982) .... Frédérique
Passion (1982) .... Isabelle
My Best Friend's Girl (1983) .... Viviane
The Story of Piera (1983) .... Piera
Entre Nous (1983) .... Lena
La Garce (1984) .... Aline Kaminker/Édith Weber
All Mixed Up/Sac de noeuds (1985) .... Rose-Marie Martin
Sincerely Charlotte (1985) .... Charlotte
Cactus (1986) .... Colo
Black Milan/Milan noir (1987)
The Bedroom Window (1987) .... Sylvia
The Possessed (1988) .... Maria Sjatov
The Story of Women (1988) .... Marie

A Woman's Revenge (1990) .... Cecile
Contre l'oubli/Against Oblivion/Lest We Forget (1991)
Madame Bovary (1991) .... Emma Bovary
Malina (1991) .... The Woman
Love After Love/Après l'amour (1992) .... Lola
"Seobe" (1994) (mini) TV Series
L' Inondation/The Flood (1994) .... Sofia
La Séparation (1994) .... Anne
Amateur (1994) .... Isabelle
Lumière and Company (1995) (voice) .... (segment "Abbas Kiarostami")
La Cérémonie (1995) .... Jeanne
The Elective Affinities (1996) .... Carlotta
Love's Debris/Poussières d'amour (1996) .... Interviewer
Gulliver's Travels (1996) (TV) (voice) .... Mistress
The Swindle/Rien ne va plus (1997) .... Betty
Les Palmes de M. Schutz (1997) .... Marie Curie
The School of Flesh (1998) .... Dominique
La Vie moderne (1999) .... Claire
Pas de scandale/Keep It Quiet (1999) .... Agnès Jeancourt

Clara (2000) .... Clara Schumann
Merci pour le chocolat/Nightcap (2000) .... Marie-Claire 'Mika' Muller
Comédie de l'innocence (2000) .... Ariane
Les Destinées sentimentales (2000) .... Nathalie Barnery
Saint-Cyr (2000) .... Madame de Maintenon
La Fausse suivante/False Servant (2000) .... La comtesse
The Piano Teacher (2001) .... Erika Kohut
La Vie promise (2002) .... Sylvia
Deux (2002) .... Magdalena/Maria
8 femmes (2002) .... Augustine
Le Temps des loups (2003)