Catherine Frot

Also Known As: Catherine Hélène Germaine Frot

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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Birthday: May 01, 1956

Adult: No

Gender: Female

Popularity:

2.12%

Known For:

For Better and for Worse
Me and My Sister
Odette Toulemonde
Til Death Do Us Part
On the Run
Viper in the Fist
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
The Page Turner
The Dinner Game
Mark of an Angel
The Villain
Staircase C
Boudu
Family Resemblances
One Summer
Crime Is Our Business
An Amazing Couple
After Life
Chaos
La Face de l'Ogre
The New Eve
Chouchou
Imogène McCarthery
Eros Therapy
Seven Years of Marriage
Happy End
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Coup d'éclat
Psy
Le Dernier Été
Tom and Lola
Day Off
La Dilettante
Bowling
Partners in Crime
East Wind
Old Rascal
Welcome Aboard!
Haute Cuisine
Ça reste entre nous
Separate Bedrooms
Salt on the Skin
L'Affaire Ranucci : Le Combat d'une mère
Inséparables
La Cerisaie
Misericordia
Mélodie pour un cafard
Guy de Maupassant
L'enfant éternel
Elsa, Elsa
Quand j'étais p'tit
Dormez, je le veux!
Paparazzi
Marguerite
A Stone in the Mouth
The Midwife
The Chameleon Slayer
Finding Momo
Fleur de cactus
Under the Stars of Paris
Just the Three of Us
My American Uncle
Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
Sorceress
Home Front
The Rose Maker
Dessine-moi un jouet
I Can't Sleep
Un paquebot dans la tête
Catherine Frot, tous ces yeux qui vous regardent