Catherine Frot
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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.
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Credits
Tom and Lola (1990)
as Catherine, la mère de Tom
The Dinner Game (1998)
as Marlène Sasseur
Boudu (2005)
as Yseult Lespinglet
Haute Cuisine (2012)
as Hortense
Finding Momo (2017)
as Mme Prioux
Chaos (2001)
as Hélène
Misericordia (2024)
as Martine
Me and My Sister (2004)
as Louise Mollet
The Rose Maker (2021)
as Ève
The Villain (2009)
as Maniette Thomas
Eros Therapy (2004)
as Agnès
The Midwife (2017)
as Claire
Lorsque l'enfant paraît (2025)
as Olympe Jacquet
Chouchou (2003)
as Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich
Paparazzi (1998)
as Évelyne Bordoni, l'épouse de Franck
I Can't Sleep (1994)
as Woman with Bookcase
Seven Years of Marriage (2003)
as Audrey
Marguerite (2015)
as Marguerite Dumont
East Wind (1993)
as Martha Hubner
Under the Stars of Paris (2021)
as Christine
Inséparables (1999)
as Gisèle
Home Front (2020)
as Solange
Psy (1981)
as Babette
Crime Is Our Business (2008)
as Prudence Beresford
Salt on the Skin (1984)
as Charlotte
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005)
as Prudence Beresford
Family Resemblances (1996)
as Yolande Ménard
Viper in the Fist (2004)
as Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau
Happy End (2009)
as Ombeline
Just the Three of Us (2019)
as Simone
My American Uncle (1980)
as Arlette jeune fille
La Cerisaie (1982)
as Douniacha
Odette Toulemonde (2007)
as Odette Toulemonde
Coup d'éclat (2011)
as Fabienne
Elsa, Elsa (1985)
as Juliette
One Summer (2006)
as Monique Gaillard
5H48, Place des Martyrs (—)
as Jeanne Weber
Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel (2017)
as Self
Old Rascal (1992)
as Marylin
Partners in Crime (2012)
as Prudence Beresford
Day Off (2001)
as Sophie
Til Death Do Us Part (2023)
as Maud Duberry
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe ! (1981)
as Véronique
After Life (2003)
as Jeanne Coste
The Page Turner (2006)
as Ariane Fouchécourt
On the Run (2003)
as Jeanne Rivet
Sorceress (1987)
as Cécile
For Better and for Worse (2023)
as Eddy Leroy
Imogène McCarthery (2010)
as Imogène
La Dilettante (1999)
as Pierrette Dumortier
La Face de l'Ogre (1988)
as Marion
Ça reste entre nous (1998)
as Hélène
Le Dernier Été (1997)
as Béatrice Bretty
Welcome Aboard! (1990)
as La blonde
An Amazing Couple (2002)
as Jeanne
Fleur de cactus (2017)
as Stéphane
Bowling (2012)
as Catherine
The New Eve (1999)
as Isabelle
Le vilain : Instantanés (2010)
as Maniette Thomas
Guy de Maupassant (1982)
as Mouche
A Stone in the Mouth (1983)
as Jacky
Dessine-moi un jouet (1999)
as Antoinette Bomme
Mark of an Angel (2008)
as Elsa Valentin
Catherine Frot, tous ces yeux qui vous regardent (2022)
as Catherine Frot
Dormez, je le veux! (1998)
as Marie-Louise, the mother
Staircase C (1985)
as Béatrice
The Chameleon Slayer (2015)
as Elle
L'enfant éternel (2002)
as Carole
Quand j'étais p'tit (1997)
as Suzanne
L'Affaire Ranucci : Le Combat d'une mère (2007)
as Héloïse Maton
Separate Bedrooms (1989)
as Babette
Un paquebot dans la tête (1981)
as Juliette
Mélodie pour un cafard (1986)
as Elle
Un bon patron (2026)
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