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Catherine Frot

Catherine Frot

Birthday: 1956-05-01 | Place of Birth: Paris, France

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Rose Maker

as    Ève

2021
Under the Stars of Paris

as    Christine

2020
Home Front

as    Solange

2019
Just the Three of Us

as    Simone

2015
Marguerite

as    Marguerite Dumont

2013
Haute Cuisine

as    Hortense

2010
Imogène McCarthery

as    Imogène

2009
The Villain

as    Maniette Thomas

2008
Mark of an Angel

as    Elsa Valentin

2008
Crime Is Our Business

as    Prudence Beresford

2006
The Page Turner

as    Ariane Fouchécourt

2005
By the Pricking of My Thumbs

as    Prudence Beresford

2005
Boudu

as    Yseult Lespinglet

2004
On the Run

as    Jeanne Rivet

2004
Me and My Sister

as    Louise Mollet

2004
Viper in the Fist

as    Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau

2003
Seven Years of Marriage

as    Audrey

2003
Chouchou

as    Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich

2002
After Life

as    Jeanne Coste

2001
Chaos

as    Hélène

1999
The New Eve

as    Isabelle

1998
The Dinner Game

as    Marlène Sasseur

1998
Paparazzi

as    Évelyne Bordoni, l'épouse de Franck

1990
Tom and Lola

as    Catherine, la mère de Tom

1985
Staircase C

as    Béatrice