Although the famous Isabelle Huppert – starring in “La Daronne” this evening on France 2 – regularly graces the covers of magazines, her private life is the subject of many mysteries… For more than forty years, the actress shares her life with Ronald Chammah, with whom the Balenciaga muse had three children.
Isabelle Huppert: What does her discreet husband Ronald look like with whom she shows herself so little?
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Revealed by The Lacemaker in 1977, Isabelle Huppert has come a long way since then. Having become a legend of French cinema and a fashion icon, the actress is one of the rare actresses to have a successful international career. This Sunday, September 29, she is starring in a dramatic comedy, The ladydirected by Jean-Paul Salomé, which is broadcast on France 2. Although Isabelle Huppert is perhaps the most famous French actress around the world, she is very discreet about her love life. The 71-year-old producer has shared her life for more than four decades with director and distributor Ronald Chammah.
Before marrying the multi-awarded French actress, Ronald Chammah grew up in Milan, where his family settled after fleeing Lebanon in the early 1970s. He studied in Switzerland, then in Paris before returning to Italy . In Rome, the producer joined a theater then was hired to work on a film. This is the beginning of his adventure in the 7th art… Ronald Chammah and Isabelle Huppert meet on the set of The Lady of the Camelliasin 1981, in Rome.
In love for more than forty years, Isabelle Huppert and Ronald Chammah had three children
The couple said “yes” in 1982. Together, the two cinema lovers welcomed three children: actress Lolita Chammah (born in 1983), Lorenzo (born in 1988) and Angelo (born in 1997). Very discreet, the man of Syrian Jewish origin is the owner of two Art & Essai cinemas in Paris. At 73, he is also a film distributor and exhibition curator. Familiar to the stars, Ronald Chammah “is as generous as he is discreet: he is a true enthusiast, who much prefers to be standing at the back of the room watching the audience he has brought to see a rare film than making a speech in front of the screen“, affirms his friend the director and screenwriter Nicolas Saada in the columns of Monde.
Their daughter, Lolita Chammah, followed in the footsteps of her illustrious mother and also became an actress. Very close to her daughter, Isabelle Huppert spoke about an ordeal that Lolita Chammah had to go through in 2022: the loss of a baby just after birth. The very premature baby, named Kolia, died after 12 days of life in intensive care. Ronald Chammah’s daughter decided to tell this drama in a book. The interpreter of Violette Nozière revealed in the magazine ELLE his admiration for his eldest daughter: “I was very touched by what she said about her grief, but also by her writing. Moving, I knew this story would be, by the very nature of its subject. But I was also overwhelmed, and admired, that Lolita had both the strength and the talent to put it into words like this. It is not just a factual story, but a literary object“.
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Although Isabelle Huppert is the most famous French actress around the world, she is very discreet about her love life. Isabelle Huppert – Red carpet of the film “Joker: Folie à deux” during the 81st Venice international film festival, the Mostra. © Mickael Chavet / Zuma Press / Bestimage
The 71-year-old producer has shared her life for more than four decades with director and distributor Ronald Chammah. Isabelle Huppert and her husband Ronald Chammah during the Roland Garros tennis tournament in Paris, June 5, 2010.
Ronald Chammah and Isabelle Huppert met on the set of La Dame aux camélias, in 1981, in Rome. Isabelle Huppert and her husband Ronald Chammah – Celebrities attend the gymnastics events during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (OG) on August 3, 2024
Together, the two cinema lovers welcomed three children: actress Lolita Chammah (born in 1983), Lorenzo (born in 1988) and Angelo (born in 1997). Isabelle Huppert and her husband Ronald Chammah during an evening at the Alcazar in 1983 in Paris
The 73-year-old man of Syrian Jewish origin is the owner of two Art & Essai theaters in Paris, he is also a film distributor and exhibition curator. Ronald Chammah and Francesca Ritrovato – Dinner at the Royal Monceau hotel following the presentation of the film “Marina Cicogna – La Vita E Tutto il Resto” by director Andrea Bettinetti at Club 13 in Paris on April 27, 2022
Familiar with the stars, Ronald Chammah “is as generous as he is discreet: he is a true enthusiast” Chiara Mastroianni and Ronald Chammah at the opening of the exhibition “Divas Italia, golden age, myth and reality of Italian cinema” at the Le store Cheap.
Isabelle Huppert and Ronald Chammah during the 2024 Olympics
Isabelle Huppert and her husband Ronald Chammah – Celebrities attend the gymnastics events during the Paris Olympic Games
François-Marie Banier, Isabelle Huppert and her husband Ronald Chammah – Exits from the funeral of the criminal lawyer, former minister, grand officer of the Legion of Honor, Georges Kiejman at the Montparnasse cemetery in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France, on May 12, 2023.
Jean-Paul Salomé (director), Thierry Frémaux and Ronald Chammah (producer) – Thierry Frémaux dedicates his book on Bertrand Tavernier “If we had known that we loved him so much, we would have loved him more” at the bookstore “L’ scum of the pages” in Paris on October 3, 2022.
