Catherine Frot
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 e
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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Born
May 01, 1956
Paris, France
Known For
Acting
Movies
74 acting
0 crew
Popularity
0.7
Known For
The Dinner Game
1998
as Marlène Sasseur
Haute Cuisine
2012
as Hortense
The Midwife
2017
as Claire
Misericordia
2024
as Martine
Family Resemblances
1996
as Yolande Ménard
My American Uncle
1980
as Arlette jeune fille
Seven Years of Marriage
2003
as Audrey
The Rose Maker
2021
as Ève
Viper in the Fist
2004
as Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau
The Villain
2009
as Maniette Thomas
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