Catherine Frot

Catherine Frot
File:Catherine Frot 2014.jpg Frot in 2014
Born	(1956-05-01) 1 May 1956 Paris, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1975–present

Catherine Frot ([kaˈtʁin_ˈfʁo]; born 1 May 1956) is a French actress. A nine-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1996 film Family Resemblances. Her other films include Le Dîner de Cons (1998), La Dilettante (1999), Haute Cuisine (2012) and Marguerite (2015).

Early life

Born in Paris, France, the daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher, Frot demonstrated comic traits and expressions at an early age. At the age of fourteen, she enrolled in the Versailles conservatory while still in school. By 1974, she began her education at the Rue Blanche school and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory.

Career

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.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1975	Les Charmes de l'été	Béatrice	Robert Mazoyer	TV mini-series
1975	Les Compagnons d'Eleusis	The guardian	Claude Grinberg	TV series
1977	L'Enlèvement du régent - Le chevalier d'Harmental	Bathilde	Gérard Vergez	Telefilm
1980	Mont-Oriol	Charlotte Oriol	Serge Moati	Telefilm
1980	My American Uncle	Young Arlette Le Gall	Alain Resnais
1980	Psy	Babette	Philippe de Broca
1980	La Ville Noire	Tonine	Jacques Tréfouël	Telefilm
1981	Les Babas Cool	Véronique	François Leterrier
1981	Mon meilleur Noël	Claude's aunt		TV series
1981—1982	Cinéma 16	Nathalie / Juliette		TV series
1982	La Cerisaie	Donniacha	Peter Brook	Telefilm
1982	Guy de Maupassant	Mouche	Michel Drach
1982	Egmont	Claire / Klare	Franz Peter Wirth	Telefilm
1982	Si je réponds pas, c'est que je suis mort		Christine van de Putte	Short film
1982	Les Atours de l'œil foudre		Magali Cerda	Short film
1982	La Nuit du lac		Sébastien Grall	Short film
1983	A Stone in the Mouth	Jacky	Jean-Louis Leconte
1983	Orpheus	Eurydice	Claude Santelli	Telefilm
1984	Les Amis de monsieur Gazon	Patricia	Jeannette Hubert	Telefilm
1984	Les Timides aventures d'un laveur de carreaux	Jacqueline	Jean Brard	Telefilm
1984	Jacques le fataliste et son maître	Sophie	Claude Santelli	Telefilm
1984	Du sel sur la peau	Charlotte	Jean-Marie Degèsves
1985	Elsa, Elsa	Juliette	Didier Haudepin
1985	Escalier C	Béatrice	Jean-Charles Tacchella	Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actress
1985	Mélodie pour un cafard		Dominique Zay	Short film
1986	L'inconnue de Vienne	Juliette	Bernard Stora	Telefilm
1987	L'Heure Simenon	Louise		TV series
1987	Sorceress	Cécile	Suzanne Schiffman
1987	La Voix du désert		Jean-Michel Roux	Short film
1988	La Face de l'ogre	Marion	Bernard Giraudeau	Telefilm
1989	Personne ne m'aime		Bernard Dubois	Telefilm
1989	Chambre à part	Babette	Jacky Cukier
1990	Tom et Lola	Catherine (Tom's mother)	Bertrand Arthuys
1990	Bienvenue à bord !	La blonde / Prostitute	Jean-Louis Leconte
1990	Sésame, ouvre-toi!		Serge Le Péron	Telefilm
1991	Haute tension	Fabienne		TV series
1991	Sushi Sushi	The banker	Laurent Perrin
1992	Juste avant l'orage	Irène
1992	Vieille canaille	Marylin	Gérard Jourd'hui
1992	Les Cinq Dernières Minutes	Jacqueline Cauvin	Claude Loursais	TV series
1993	Vent d'est	Martha Hubner	Robert Enrico
1993	Ma petite Mimi	Mimi	Roger Kahane	Telefilm
1994	I Can't Sleep	Woman With Bookcase (cameo appearance)	Claire Denis
1994	Un été à l'envers	Marie	Roger Guillot	Telefilm
1994	Une femme dans l'ennui		Michel Couvelard	Short film
1995	Sa dernière lettre	Cécile	Serge Meynard	Telefilm
1995	Cycle Simenon	Anna		TV series
1996	Family Resemblances	Yolande	Cédric Klapisch	César Award for Best Supporting Actress
1997	Un homme	Gisèle	Robert Mazoyer	Telefilm
1997	Quand j'étais p'tit	Suzanne	Daniel Janneau	Telefilm
1997	Le Dernier Été	Béatrice Bretty	Claude Goretta	Telefilm
1997	Les Lauriers sont coupés	Josy	Michel Sibra	Telefilm
1998	Le Dîner de Cons	Marlène Sasseur	Francis Veber	Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actress
1998	Paparazzi	Evelyne Bordoni	Alain Berbérian
1998	Just Between Us	Hélène	Martin Lamotte
1998	Dormez, je le veux !	Marie-Louise, the mother	Irène Jouannet
1998	Je vais t'apprendre la politesse	The Baroness		TV series
1998	It Would Only Take a Bridge		Solveig Dommartin	Short film
1999	À vot'service	Fanny	Éric Bartonio
1999	The New Eve	Isabelle	Catherine Corsini
1999	The Dilettante	Pierrette Dumortier	Pascal Thomas	Best Actress Award (21st Moscow International Film Festival) Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
1999	Inséparables	Gisèle	Michel Couvelard
1999	Dessine-moi un jouet	Antoinette Bomme	Hervé Baslé	Telefilm
2001	Chaos	Hélène	Coline Serreau	Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
2001	Day Off	Sophie	Pascal Thomas
2002	Cavale	Jeanne Rivet	Lucas Belvaux
2002	Après la vie
2002	Un couple épatant
2002	L'Enfant éternel	Carole	Patrick Poubel	Telefilm
2003	Chouchou	Nicole Milovavovich	Merzak Allouache
2003	Married for 7 Years	Audrey	Didier Bourdon
2004	Eros Therapy	Agnès	Danièle Dubroux
2004	Viper in the Fist	Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau	Philippe de Broca
2004	Les Sœurs fâchées	Louise Mollet	Alexandra Leclère
2005	Boudu	Yseult	Gérard Jugnot	Nominated - Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actress
2005	Mon petit doigt m'a dit...	Prudence Beresford	Pascal Thomas
2006	The Page Turner	Ariane Fouchécourt	Denis Dercourt	Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
2006	Le Passager de l'été	Monique	Florence Moncorgé-Gabin
2007	Odette Toulemonde	Odette Toulemonde	Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt	Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
2007	L'Affaire Christian Ranucci : le Combat d'une mère	Héloïse Ranucci	Denys Granier-Deferre	Telefilm
2008	Mark of an Angel	Elsa Valentin	Safy Nebbou and Cyril Gomez-Mathieu	Nominated—Lumières Award for Best Actress Nominated—Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actress
2008	Crime Is Our Business	Prudence Beresford	Pascal Thomas	Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
2009	Le Vilain	Maniette	Albert Dupontel
2009	Happy End	Ombeline	Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu
2010	Le Mystère	Valérie	Jean-Teddy Filippe
2010	Imogène McCarthery	Imogène	Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier
2011	Fabienne	Fabienne Bourrier	José Alcala
2012	Bowling	Catherine	Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
2012	Partners in Crime	Prudence Beresford	Pascal Thomas
2012	Haute Cuisine	Hortense Laborie	Christian Vincent	Nominated—César Award for Best Actress Nominated—Lumières Award for Best Actress
2015	Marguerite	Marguerite Dumont	Xavier Giannoli	Pending—Lumières Award for Best Actress

External links

• Catherine Frot at the Internet Movie Database
• (French) Portrait of Catherine Frot