Catherine Frot
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: May 1, 1956
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Filmography
as Martine
as Self - Guest
as Eddy Leroy
as Maud Duberry
as Self
as Catherine Frot
as Ève
as Christine
as Solange
as Simone
as Mme Prioux
as Self
as Stéphane
as Claire
as Elle
as Marguerite Dumont
as Florence Rougier
as Self - Guest
as Hortense
as Prudence Beresford
as Catherine
as Fabienne
as Imogène
as Maniette Thomas
as Maniette Thomas
as Self - Guest
as Ombeline
as Prudence Beresford
as Elsa Valentin
as Odette Toulemonde
as Héloïse Maton
as Ariane Fouchécourt
as Monique Gaillard
as Prudence Beresford
as Yseult Lespinglet
as Louise Mollet
as Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau
as Agnès
as Audrey
as Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich
as Jeanne Coste
as Jeanne Rivet
as Carole
as Jeanne
as Hélène
as Self - Guest
as Sophie
as Antoinette Bomme
as Pierrette Dumortier
as Isabelle
as Self
as Hélène
as Évelyne Bordoni, l'épouse de Franck
as Marlène Sasseur
as Suzanne
as Béatrice Bretty
as Yolande Ménard
as Woman with Bookcase
as Martha Hubner
as Marylin
as La blonde
as Catherine, la mère de Tom
as Babette
as Marion
as Cécile
as Juliette
as Béatrice
as Charlotte
as Jacky
as Mouche
as Douniacha
as Véronique
as Babette
as Arlette jeune fille