Catherine Frot
Known For
Acting
Born
1956-05-01 in Paris, France
Biography
Catherine Frot (born 1 May 1956) is a French actress. A ten-time César Award nominee, she won the awards for Best Actress for Marguerite (2015) and Best Supporting Actress for Family Resemblances (1996). Her other films include Le Dîner de Cons (1998), La Dilettante (1999), and Haute Cuisine (2012). Frot was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher. Her younger sister, Dominique, is also an actress. Catherine demonstrated comic talent at an early age, and enrolled in the Versailles conservatory when she was fourteen and still at school. In 1974, she began her education at the Rue Blanche school and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory. In 1975, Frot appeared at the Festival d'Avignon with the Compagnie du Chapeau Rouge (Red Hat Company) which she founded with the help of others. From then on, Catherine put all her energy into theatre performances in roles such as the Présidente de Tourvel in the play Les Liaisons dangereuses in 1987. She performed in a number of classical plays such as La Cerisaie, directed by Peter Brook in 1982, and La Mouette directed by Pierre Pradinas in 1985. In films, Frot won the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1996, for playing Yolande, 'the sweet silly wife of a provincial bully' in Cédric Klapisch's Un air de famille and was funny and moving as a wealthy, rebellious nuisance in La Dilettante (1999). In 7 ans de mariage, she played a prudish banker, wife and mother, who is drawn by her bored, sexually frustrated husband into the world of Parisian "clubs échangistes" ("wife-swapping clubs"). She is an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite. Source: Article "Catherine Frot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Vivement dimanche
as Self
C à vous
as Self - Guest
Beau geste
as Self
Capitaine Marleau
as Florence Rougier
The Apartment
as Self - Guest
Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
as Self - Guest
Clique
as Self - Guest
Finding Momo
as Mme Prioux
Paparazzi
as Évelyne Bordoni, l'épouse de Franck
Chaos
as Hélène
The Villain
as Maniette Thomas
Chouchou
as Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich
Old Rascal
as Marylin
The Dinner Game
as Marlène Sasseur
Elsa, Elsa
as Juliette
Day Off
as Sophie
Misericordia
as Martine
Boudu
as Yseult Lespinglet
Psy
as Babette
Crime Is Our Business
as Prudence Beresford