Catherine Frot

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Catherine Frot (2016)

Catherine Frot (born May 1, 1956 in Paris ) is a French actress .

life and work

Catherine Frot is the daughter of an engineer and a math teacher. Her sister Dominique Frot is also an actress. At the age of seventeen, Catherine Frot entered the “École de la Rue Blanche” and later studied performing arts at the Paris Conservatory . In 1978 she was a founding member of the “Compagnie du Chapeau Rouge”, which quickly gained a legendary reputation in the Parisian café-théâtre scene.

Catherine Frot had her first television appearance in 1980 in My Uncle from America ( Mon oncle d'Amérique ) by Alain Resnais . In addition to numerous theater appearances, she also had some small roles in movies such as Elsa, Elsa , love, deceit and other passions ( Chambre à part ) and Psy . For her role as the neighbor of Robin Renucci in Jean-Charles Tacchella's The Art of Being in Love ( Escalier C ), she was nominated for the 1985 César for Best Supporting Actress.

In the mid-1990s she celebrated stage successes in Typical Family! ( Un air de famille ), a play by Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui , in which she played the silly sister-in-law Yoyo. She also cast Cédric Klapisch in the film version of the play of the same name, and Catherine Frot received the César for Best Supporting Actress in 1997 for this role. She impressively embodied somewhat buttoned-up bourgeois women in whom furies can slumber. In 1998 she played Marlène in Francis Veber's comedy Dinner for Spinners ( Le dîner des cons ) opposite Thierry Lhermitte and in 1999 the leading role in Pascal Thomas ' surprise hit La dilettante . In 2003 it was one of the indispensable pillars in Lucas Belvaux 's film trilogy Trilogy of Passions ( Cavale , Un couple épatant , Après la vie ), in which the same story is told from the point of view of different protagonists, so that an event turns out to be a thriller , once as a comedy and once as a melodrama.

In 2004 she played the strict mother Paule Rézeau in the film adaptation of Hervé Bazin’s book Vipère au poing, and in 2005 she played the role of Yseult in Boudu alongside Gérard Depardieu and Gérard Jugnot , who also directed . For her portrayal of the cook Hortense Laborie in The Cook and the President ( Les saveurs du palais ), Catherine Frot was nominated for the sixth time for the César for Best Actress in 2013; In 2016, Madame Marguerite, or the art of crooked tones, received her second award with a César, where she was honored for the first time as a leading actress.

Catherine Frot has been married to Michel Couvelard since 1987; both have an adopted daughter.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • 1986: César nomination, Best Supporting Actress, for The Art of Being in Love
  • 1995: Molière Theater Prize , Best Supporting Actress , for Un air de famille
  • 1997: César , Best Supporting Actress , for Typical Family!
  • 1999: César nomination for Dinner for Spinners (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 1999: Actor Award of the Moscow International Film Festival for La dilettante
  • 2000: César nomination, Best Actress , for La dilettante
  • 2002: César nomination, Best Actress, for Chaos
  • 2007: César nomination, Best Actress, for The Girl Who Turns the Pages
  • 2008: César nomination, Best Actress, for Odette Toulemonde
  • 2009: César nomination, Best Actress, for Le crime est notre affaire
  • 2013: César nomination, Best Actress, for The Cook and the President
  • 2016: César, best actress, for Madame Marguerite or the art of crooked tones

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personal data
SURNAME Frot, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France