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Catherine Frot

ActorBorn May 1, 1956 (68 years)
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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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Haute Cuisine
  • The Midwife
  • The Rose Maker
Known For
  • Le Dîner de Cons
  • The Page Turner
  • Haute Cuisine
  • Marguerite
  • The Midwife
  • Odette Toulemonde
  • Family Resemblances
  • By the Pricking of My Thumbs
  • Chaos
  • The Rose Maker
  • Crime Is Our Business
  • Viper in the Fist
  • Me and My Sister
  • Mark of an Angel
  • Le vilain
  • La dilettante
  • Momo
  • Boudu
  • On the Run
  • Married for 7 Years
  • Associés contre le crime: L'oeuf d'Ambroise
  • Happy End
  • Bowling
  • Chouchou

Filmography

2024
Misericordia · as Martine
2023
For Better and for Worse · as Eddy Leroy
2023
A Confession · as Maud Duberry
2023
2020
2020
2020
Under the Stars of Paris · as Christine
2020
Home Front · as Solange
2019
2017
Momo · as Mme Prioux
2017
2015
2015
Marguerite · as Marguerite Dumont
2014
Captain Marleau (TV Series) · as Florence Rougier
2012
Haute Cuisine · as Hortense
2012
2012
Bowling · as Catherine
2011
Fabienne · as Fabienne
2010
Imogène McCarthery · as Imogène
2009
Le vilain · as Maniette Thomas
2009
Happy End · as Ombeline
2008
Crime Is Our Business · as Prudence Beresford
2008
Mark of an Angel · as Elsa Valentin
2007
2006
Odette Toulemonde · as Odette Toulemonde
2006
The Page Turner · as Ariane Fouchécourt
2006
Le passager de l'été · as Monique Gaillard
2005
By the Pricking of My Thumbs · as Prudence Beresford
2005
Boudu · as Yseult Lespinglet
2004
Me and My Sister · as Louise Mollet
2004
Viper in the Fist · as Paule "folcoche" Rézeau
2004
Eros Therapy · as Agnès
2003
Married for 7 Years · as Audrey
2003
Chouchou · as Le Docteur Nicole Milovavovich
2002
On the Run · as Jeanne Rivet
2002
Trilogy: Three · as Jeanne Coste
2002
An Amazing Couple · as Jeanne
2001
Chaos · as Hélène
2001
Day Off · as Sophie
1999
Inséparables · as Gisèle
1999
La dilettante · as Pierrette Dumortier
1999
The New Eve · as Isabelle
1998
Just Between Us · as Hélène
1998
Paparazzi · as Évelyne Bordoni, L'épouse De Franck
1998
Le Dîner de Cons · as Marlène Sasseur
1997
The Last Summer · as Béatrice Bretty
1996
Family Resemblances · as Yolande Ménard
1994
I Can't Sleep · as Woman With Bookcase
1993
East Wind · as Martha Hubner
1992
Old Rascal · as Marylin
1991
Sushi Sushi · as La Banquière
1990
Bienvenue à bord! · as La Blonde
1990
Tom et Lola · as Catherine, La Mère De Tom
1989
Separate Bedrooms · as Babette
1987
Sorceress · as Cécile
1985
Elsa, Elsa! · as Juliette
1985
Escalier C · as Béatrice
1985
Salt on the Skin · as Charlotte
1984
Cinématon · as Participant
1983
1982
Egmont · as Claire
1982
Guy de Maupassant · as Mouche
1982
La cerisaie · as Douniacha
1981
The Hippies · as Véronique
1981
1981
Psy · as Babette
1980
My American Uncle · as Arlette Jeune Fille
1977
1975
Cinéma 16 (TV Series) · as Juliette
1958
The Last Five Minutes (TV Series) · as Jacqueline Cauvin

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