Marthe Keller
Acting
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marthe Keller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: January 28, 1945
Place of Birth: Basel, Switzerland
Known For
Filmography
as Florist
as Betty Maxwell
as Beryl (voice)
as Self
as The Empress
as Johanna Spyri (voice)
as Claudia, mère de Jeanne
as Elsa
as Kathy
as La Mère
as Old Sofia
as Louise
as Judge D'Amici
as Mathilde Chaykine
as Anushka
as Isabelle
as Anna
as Irène Volkov
as Gloria
as Christine
as Martha Sagell
as Hanna
as Nina
as Laura Bernheim
as Mina
as Leona Chew
as Buhlschaft (archive footage)
as Rosa
as Hannah Kaufmann
as Dr. Rousseau
as Voix off
as Iréne
as Nickye
as Eléonore
as Narrator (voice)
as Carole Rothmann
as Dona Flores
as Professeur Brügen
as Mother
as Emma
as Mutter
as Mme Dumayet-Ponti
as Rebecca McGregor
as Jacqueline Bréaud
as Christina
as Madame Thorpe
as Barbara
as Nora Winter
as Julia
as Mrs. Delgado
as Catherine Mercier
as Linda Farmer (Marie Carson)
as Johanna
as Tess Shirer
as Frau Wagner
as Tina, Romano's Mistress
as Cecile
as Esther
as Judy Johnson
as Bronka
as Cecile
as Mathilde Wesendonck
as Gina Sanseverina
as Self
as Elisabeth
as Lisa
as Fedora
as Lillian
as Dahlia
as Elsa Opel
as Melba
as Bianca
as Angela Delpierre
as Self
as Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother
as Marthe Renon
as L'auto-stoppeuse
as Marlène Réval
as Catherine
as Self
as Koba Lye-Lye (Princesse de Kurlande)
as Vicka
as Natacha
as Marie Panneton
as Amélie, baronne de Coustines
as Nonne
as Brigit (uncredited)
as Self
as Self