Catherine Frot
Actor
May 1, 1956 (69 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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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
Filmography
| 2026 | |
| 2025 | Lorsque l'enfant paraît · as Olympe Jacquet |
| 2024 | Misericordia · as Martine |
| 2023 | For Better and for Worse · as Eddy Leroy |
| 2023 | A Confession · as Maud Duberry |
| 2023 | Til Death Do Us Part · as Cast |
| 2020 | The Rose Maker · as ÈveOn Plex |
| 2020 | Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible · as Récitante |
| 2020 | Under the Stars of Paris · as Christine |
| 2020 | Home Front · as Solange |
| 2019 | Qui m'aime me suive! · as Simone |
| 2017 | Momo · as Mme Prioux |
| 2017 | The Midwife · as ClaireOn Plex |
| 2015 | La tueuse caméléon · as Elle |
| 2015 | Marguerite · as Marguerite Dumont |
| 2014 | Captain Marleau · as Florence Rougier |
| 2012 | Haute Cuisine · as HortenseOn Plex |
| 2012 | Associés contre le crime · as Prudence Beresford |
| 2012 | Bowling · as Catherine |
| 2011 | Fabienne · as Fabienne |
| 2010 | Imogène McCarthery · as Imogène |
| 2009 | The Villain · 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 | L'affaire Christian Ranucci: Le combat d'une mère · as Héloïse Maton |
| 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 | L'enfant éternel · as Carole |
| 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 IsabelleOn Plex |
| 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 | A Stone in the Mouth · as Jacky |
| 1982 | Egmont · as Claire |
| 1982 | Guy de Maupassant · as Mouche |
| 1981 | The Hippies · as Véronique |
| 1981 | Psy · as Babette |
| 1980 | My American Uncle · as Arlette Jeune Fille |
| 1958 | Les Cinq dernières minutes · as Jacqueline Cauvin |
| 2023 | Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma · as Self - Guest |
| 2023 | Beau Geste · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2016 | Quotidien · as Self |
| 2016 | C l'hebdo · as Self |
| 2013 | Clique · as Self - Guest |
| 2011 | 8:30 p.m. on Sunday · as Self |
| 2009 | C à Vous · as Self - Guest |
| 2008 | La Grande Librairie · as Self |
| 2006 | Ce soir (ou jamais !) · as Self |
| 2006 | On n'est pas couché · as Self |
| 2004 | Le grand journal de Canal+ · as Self |
| 2001 | En aparté · as Self - Guest |
| 2000 | L'invité · as Self |
| 1998 | Le plus grand Cabaret du monde · as Self |
| 1998 | Roll on Sunday · as Self |
| 1998 | We Can't Wait for Next Sunday · as Self |
| 1994 | Les enfants de la télé · as Self |
| 1991 | Movie Days · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1990 | Faut pas rêver · as Self |
| 1987 | NPA · as Self |
| 1987 | Night of the Molières · as Self |
| 1985 | Today (FR) · as Self |
| 1981 | Journal de 20h de France 2 · as Self |
| 1976 | César Awards · as Self - Nominee |