Catherine Frot

French actress (born 1956)

Catherine Frot

Frot at the 67th Berlin Film Festival in 2017

Born|  (1956-05-01) 1 May 1956 (age 69)

Paris, France

Occupation| Actress
Years active| 1975–present

Catherine Frot (French pronunciation: [katʁin fʁo]; born 1 May 1956) is a French actress.[1] A 10-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).

## Early life

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Frot was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher. Her younger sister, Dominique, is also an actress.[2] Catherine demonstrated comic talent at an early age, and enrolled in the Versailles conservatory when she was 14, and was still in school. In 1974, she began her education at the Rue Blanche [fr] school, and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory.

## Career

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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, she 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.[3]

## Filmography

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1975  | Les Charmes de l'été | Béatrice  | TV mini-series
1975  | Les Compagnons d'Eleusis | The guardian  | TV series
1977  | L'Enlèvement du régent - Le chevalier d'Harmental | Bathilde  | Telefilm
1980  | Mont-Oriol | Charlotte Oriol  | Telefilm
1980  | My American Uncle | Young Arlette Le Gall  |
1980  | Psy | Babette  |
1980  | La Ville Noire | Tonine  | Telefilm
1981  | Les Babas Cool | Véronique  |
1981  | Mon meilleur Noël | Claude's aunt  | TV series
1981—1982  | Cinéma 16 | Nathalie / Juliette  | TV series
1982  | La Cerisaie | Donniacha  | Telefilm
1982  | Guy de Maupassant | Mouche  |
1982  | Egmont | Claire / Klare  | Telefilm
1982  | Si je réponds pas, c'est que je suis mort |  | Short film
1982  | Les Atours de l'œil foudre |  | Short film
1982  | La Nuit du lac |  | Short film
1983  | A Stone in the Mouth | Jacky  |
1983  | Orpheus | Eurydice  | Telefilm
1984  | Les Amis de monsieur Gazon | Patricia  | Telefilm
1984  | Les Timides aventures d'un laveur de carreaux | Jacqueline  | Telefilm
1984  | Jacques le fataliste et son maître | Sophie  | Telefilm
1984  | Du sel sur la peau | Charlotte  |
1985  | Elsa, Elsa | Juliette  |
1985  | Escalier C | Béatrice  | Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actress
1985  | Mélodie pour un cafard |  | Short film
1986  | L'inconnue de Vienne | Juliette  | Telefilm
1987  | L'Heure Simenon | Louise  | TV series
1987  | Sorceress | Cécile  |
1987  | La Voix du désert |  | Short film
1988  | La Face de l'ogre | Marion  | Telefilm
1989  | Personne ne m'aime |  | Telefilm
1989  | Chambre à part | Babette  |
1990  | Tom et Lola | Catherine (Tom's mother)  |
1990  | Bienvenue à bord ! | La blonde / Prostitute  |
1990  | Sésame, ouvre-toi! |  | Telefilm
1991  | Haute tension | Fabienne  | TV series
1991  | Sushi Sushi | The banker  |
1992  | Juste avant l'orage | Irène  |
1992  | Vieille canaille | Marylin  |
1992  | Les Cinq Dernières Minutes | Jacqueline Cauvin  | TV series
1993  | Vent d'est | Martha Hubner  |
1993  | Ma petite Mimi | Mimi  | Telefilm
1994  | I Can't Sleep | Woman With Bookcase
(cameo appearance)  |
1994  | Un été à l'envers | Marie  | Telefilm
1994  | Une femme dans l'ennui |  | Short film
1995  | Sa dernière lettre | Cécile  | Telefilm
1995  | Cycle Simenon | Anna  | TV series
1996  | Family Resemblances | Yolande  | César Award for Best Supporting Actress
1997  | Un homme | Gisèle  | Telefilm
1997  | Quand j'étais p'tit | Suzanne  | Telefilm
1997  | Le Dernier Été | Béatrice Bretty  | Telefilm
1997  | Les Lauriers sont coupés | Josy  | Telefilm
1998  | Le Dîner de Cons | Marlène Sasseur  | Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actress
1998  | Paparazzi | Evelyne Bordoni  |
1998  | Just Between Us | Hélène  |
1998  | Dormez, je le veux ! | Marie-Louise, the mother  |
1998  | Je vais t'apprendre la politesse | The Baroness  | TV series
1998  | It Would Only Take a Bridge |  | Short film
1999  | À vot'service  | Fanny  |
1999  | The New Eve | Isabelle  |
1999  | The Dilettante | Pierrette Dumortier  | Best Actress Award (21st Moscow International Film Festival)[4]
Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
1999  | Inséparables | Gisèle  |
1999  | Dessine-moi un jouet | Antoinette Bomme  | Telefilm
2001  | Chaos | Hélène  | Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
2001  | Day Off | Sophie  |
2002  | Cavale | Jeanne Rivet  |
2002  | Après la vie |
2002  | Un couple épatant |
2002  |  L'Enfant éternel | Carole  | Telefilm
2003  | Chouchou | Nicole Milovavovich  |
2003  | Married for 7 Years | Audrey  |
2004  | Eros Therapy | Agnès  |
2004  | Viper in the Fist | Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau  |
2004  | Les Sœurs fâchées | Louise Mollet  |
2005  | Boudu | Yseult  | Nominated - Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actress
2005  | Mon petit doigt m'a dit... | Prudence Beresford  |
2006  | The Page Turner | Ariane Fouchécourt  | Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
2006  | Le Passager de l'été | Monique  |
2007  | Odette Toulemonde | Odette Toulemonde  | Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
2007  | L'Affaire Christian Ranucci : le Combat d'une mère | Héloïse Ranucci  | Telefilm
2008  | Mark of an Angel | Elsa Valentin  | Nominated—Lumières Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actress
2008  | Crime Is Our Business | Prudence Beresford  | Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
2009  | Le Vilain | Maniette  |
2009  | Happy End | Ombeline  |
2010  | Le Mystère | Valérie  |
2010  | Imogène McCarthery | Imogène  |
2011  | Fabienne | Fabienne Bourrier  |
2012  | Bowling | Catherine  |
2012  | Partners in Crime | Prudence Beresford  |
2012  | Haute Cuisine | Hortense Laborie  | Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Lumières Award for Best Actress
2015  | Marguerite | Marguerite Dumont  | César Award for Best Actress
Lumières Award for Best Actress
2016  | La Tueuse caméléon |  |
2016  | Heureux en France |  |
2017  | The Midwife | Claire  |
2020  | Home Front |  |
2020  | The Rose Maker (La fine fleur) | Eve  |

## References

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1. ^ "LES GENS DU CINEMA ©" (in French).
2. ^ "Dominique Frot". IMDb. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
3. ^ "Décret du 16 mai 2008 portant promotion et nomination" (in French).
4. ^ "21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.

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