Catherine Frot
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.
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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.
Known for
Misericordia
For Better And For Worse
Une confession
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The Rose Maker
Under the Stars of Paris
Home Front
Just the Three of Us
Finding Momo
Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
Fleur de cactus
The Midwife
The Chameleon Slayer
Marguerite
Capitaine Marleau
Haute Cuisine
Partners in Crime
Bowling
Coup d'éclat
Imogène McCarthery
The Villain
Happy End
Crime Is Our Business
Mark of an Angel
Odette Toulemonde
L'Affaire Ranucci : Le Combat d'une mère
The Page Turner
One Summer
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Boudu
Me and My Sister
Viper in the Fist
Eros Therapy
Seven Years of Marriage
Chouchou
On the Run
L'enfant éternel
After Life
Chaos
Day Off
Dessine-moi un jouet
La Dilettante
The New Eve
Vivement dimanche
Ça reste entre nous
Paparazzi
The Dinner Game
Quand j'étais p'tit
Le Dernier Été
Family Resemblances
I Can't Sleep
East Wind
Old Rascal
Welcome Aboard!
Tom and Lola
Chambre à part
La Face de l'Ogre
Sorceress
Elsa, Elsa
Staircase C
Salt on the Skin
A Stone in the Mouth
Guy de Maupassant
La Cerisaie
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Psy
My American Uncle