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Marthe Keller
Actor
Born January 28, 1945 (79 years)
Marthe Keller (born 28 January 1945; Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss actress and opera director. She studied ballet as a child, but stopped after a skiing accident at age 16. She changed to acting, and worked in Berlin at the Schiller Theatre and the Berliner Ensemble.
Keller's earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin (1966, uncredited) and the German film Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967). She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including Un cave (1971), La raison du plus fou (1973) and Toute une vie (And Now My Love, 1974). Her most famous American film appearances are her Golden Globe-nominated performance as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in Marathon Man and her performance as a femme fatale Arab terrorist who leads an attack on the Super Bowl in Black Sunday, both of them were ill-fated characters at the climax of each film. Keller also acted with William Holden in the 1978 Billy Wilder film Fedora. She appeared alongside Al Pacino in the auto racing film Bobby Deerfield, and subsequently the two of them were involved in a relationship. Since then, Keller has worked more steadily in European cinema compared to American movies. Her later films include Dark Eyes, with Marcello Mastroianni.
In 2001, Keller appeared in a Broadway adaptation of Abby Mann's play Judgment at Nuremberg as Mrs. Bertholt (the role played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1961 Stanley Kramer film version). She was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for this performance.
In addition to her work in film and theatre, Keller has developed a career in classical music as a speaker and opera director. She has performed the speaking role of Joan of Arc in the oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher of Arthur Honegger on several occasions, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur. She has recorded the role for Deutsche Grammophon with Ozawa (DG 429 412-2). Keller has also recited the spoken part in Igor Stravinsky's Perséphone. She has performed classical music melodramas for speaker and piano in recital. The Swiss composer Michael Jarrell wrote the melodrama Cassandre, after the novel of Christa Wolf, for Keller, who gave the world premiere in 1994.
Keller's first production as an opera director was Dialogues des Carmélites, for Opéra National du Rhin, in 1999. This production subsequently received a semi-staged performance in London that year. She has also directed Lucia di Lammermoor for Washington National Opera and for Los Angeles Opera. Her directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera was in a 2004 production of Don Giovanni.
Keller has a son, Alexandre (born 1971), from her relationship with Philippe de Broca.
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Keller's earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin (1966, uncredited) and the German film Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967). She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including Un cave (1971), La raison du plus fou (1973) and Toute une vie (And Now My Love, 1974). Her most famous American film appearances are her Golden Globe-nominated performance as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in Marathon Man and her performance as a femme fatale Arab terrorist who leads an attack on the Super Bowl in Black Sunday, both of them were ill-fated characters at the climax of each film. Keller also acted with William Holden in the 1978 Billy Wilder film Fedora. She appeared alongside Al Pacino in the auto racing film Bobby Deerfield, and subsequently the two of them were involved in a relationship. Since then, Keller has worked more steadily in European cinema compared to American movies. Her later films include Dark Eyes, with Marcello Mastroianni.
In 2001, Keller appeared in a Broadway adaptation of Abby Mann's play Judgment at Nuremberg as Mrs. Bertholt (the role played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1961 Stanley Kramer film version). She was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for this performance.
In addition to her work in film and theatre, Keller has developed a career in classical music as a speaker and opera director. She has performed the speaking role of Joan of Arc in the oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher of Arthur Honegger on several occasions, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur. She has recorded the role for Deutsche Grammophon with Ozawa (DG 429 412-2). Keller has also recited the spoken part in Igor Stravinsky's Perséphone. She has performed classical music melodramas for speaker and piano in recital. The Swiss composer Michael Jarrell wrote the melodrama Cassandre, after the novel of Christa Wolf, for Keller, who gave the world premiere in 1994.
Keller's first production as an opera director was Dialogues des Carmélites, for Opéra National du Rhin, in 1999. This production subsequently received a semi-staged performance in London that year. She has also directed Lucia di Lammermoor for Washington National Opera and for Los Angeles Opera. Her directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera was in a 2004 production of Don Giovanni.
Keller has a son, Alexandre (born 1971), from her relationship with Philippe de Broca.
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Known For
Filmography
| 2023 | One Life · as Betty Maxwell |
| 2023 | Mars Express · as Beryl (voice) |
| 2022 | Marie-Antoinette (2022) (TV Series) · as The Empress |
| 2022 | Heidi's Nightmare · as Johanna Spyri (voice) |
| 2022 | Everybody Loves Jeanne · as Claudia, Mère De Jeanne |
| 2020 | My Little Sister · as Kathy |
| 2020 | My Wonderful Wanda · as Elsa |
| 2019 | The Holy Family · as La Mère |
| 2019 | The Staggering Girl · as Old Sofia |
| 2019 | |
| 2018 | I Witness · as Judge D'amici |
| 2018 | Breath of Life · as Mathilde Chaykine |
| 2018 | Unveiled · as Isabelle |
| 2018 | The Romanoffs (TV Series) · as Anushka |
| 2017 | The Escape · as Anna |
| 2017 | Murder in the Auvergne Mountains · as Irène Volkov |
| 2016 | Miséricorde · as Gloria |
| 2016 | After Love · as Christine |
| 2015 | Amnesia · as Martha Sagell |
| 2013 | The Mark of the Angels - Miserere · as Laura Bernheim |
| 2012 | In a Rush · as Mina |
| 2011 | The Giants · as Rosa |
| 2011 | Page Eight · as Leona Chew |
| 2011 | My Best Enemy · as Hannah Kaufmann |
| 2010 | Hereafter · as Dr. Rousseau |
| 2010 | What War May Bring · as Cameo Appearance |
| 2008 | Bouquet final · as Nickye |
| 2008 | Le sanglot des anges (TV Series) · as Eléonore |
| 2008 | Modus Operandi · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2008 | Cortex · as Carole Rothmann |
| 2007 | The Missing Granddaughter · as Eva |
| 2007 | Chrysalis · as Professeur Brügen |
| 2007 | The Prophecy of Avignon (TV Series) · as Dona Flores |
| 2007 | UV · as Mother |
| 2005 | Fragile · as Emma |
| 2004 | La nourrice · as Mme Dumayet-Ponti |
| 2004 | Nightsongs · as Mutter |
| 2002 | Time of the Wolf · as Rebecca Mcgregor |
| 1999 | Le derrière · as Christina |
| 1998 | The School of Flesh · as Madame Thorpe |
| 1997 | Elles · as Barbara |
| 1997 | K · as Nora Winter |
| 1995 | Belle Époque (TV Series) · as Antoinette |
| 1995 | According to Pereira · as Mrs. Delgado |
| 1994 | Mon amie Max · as Catherine Mercier |
| 1991 | The Hospice · as Cecile |
| 1991 | Lapse of Memory · as Linda Farmer (marie Carson) |
| 1991 | Young Catherine (TV Series) · as Johanna |
| 1991 | Young Catherine · as Johanna |
| 1989 | Seven Minutes · as Frau Wagner |
| 1989 | The Nightmare Years (TV Series) · as Tess Shirer |
| 1987 | Dark Eyes · as Tina, Romano's Mistress |
| 1985 | Joan Lui - Ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì · as Judy Johnson |
| 1985 | Red Kiss · as Bronka |
| 1984 | Femmes de personne · as Cecile |
| 1983 | Wagner (TV Series) · as Mathilde Wesendonck |
| 1982 | The Charterhouse of Parma (TV Series) · as Gina Sanseverina |
| 1981 | The Amateur · as Elisabeth |
| 1980 | The Formula · as Lisa |
| 1978 | Fedora · as Fedora |
| 1977 | Bobby Deerfield · as Lillian |
| 1977 | Black Sunday · as Dahlia |
| 1976 | Marathon Man · as Elsa |
| 1976 | The Hornet's Nest · as Melba |
| 1975 | Down the Ancient Stairs · as Bianca |
| 1975 | Cinéma 16 (TV Series) · as Nelly (helma Schleyer) |
| 1974 | Only the Wind Knows the Answer · as Angela Delpierre |
| 1974 | And Now My Love · as Sarah / Sa Mère / Sa Grand-Mère |
| 1973 | Fall of a Body · as Marthe Renon |
| 1973 | The Right of the Maddest · as L'auto-Stoppeuse |
| 1973 | The Suburbs Are Everywhere · as Marlène Réval |
| 1972 | A Loser · as Catherine |
| 1972 | La demoiselle d'Avignon (TV Series) · as Koba Lye-Lye (princesse De Kurlande) |
| 1972 | The Old Maid · as Vicka |
| 1971 | Arsène Lupin (TV Series) · as Natacha |
| 1970 | Give Her the Moon · as Marie Panneton |
| 1969 | The Devil by the Tail · as Amélie, Baronne De Coustines |
| 1969 | |
| 1967 | Wild Rider Ltd. · as Nonne |
| 1966 | Funeral in Berlin · as Brigit (uncredited) |