Catherine Frot

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.

Filmografi

The Villain2009 · Maniette ThomasEros Therapy2004 · AgnèsChaos2001 · HélèneElsa, Elsa1985 · JulietteHaute Cuisine2012 · HortenseFinding Momo2017 · Mme PriouxChouchou2003 · Le docteur Nicole MilovavovichPaparazzi1998 · Évelyne Bordoni, l'épouse de FranckInséparables1999 · GisèlePsy1981 · BabetteOld Rascal1992 · MarylinOdette Toulemonde2007 · Odette ToulemondeThe Dinner Game1998 · Marlène SasseurBoudu2005 · Yseult LespingletCinéma… par Albert Dupontel2017 · SelfDocile · Marguerite2015 · Marguerite DumontCatherine Frot, tous ces yeux qui vous regardent2022 · Catherine FrotOn the Run2003 · Jeanne RivetMe and My Sister2004 · Louise Mollet5H48, Place des Martyrs2027 · Jeanne WeberSeven Years of Marriage2003 · AudreyJust the Three of Us2019 · SimoneLe Dernier Été1997 · Béatrice Bretty