Person Details

Birthday: 1956-05-01 22:19:29

Aliases: Catherine Hélène Germaine Frot

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Paris, France

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Movie Involvements: 28

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

The Midwife
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6

The Midwife

(2017) Claire
Viper in the Fist
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6

Viper in the Fist

(2004) Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau
The Page Turner
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7

The Page Turner

(2006) Ariane Fouchécourt
Chaos
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7

Chaos

(2001) Hélène
Une confession
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7

Une confession

(2023) Maud Duberry
Home Front
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6

Home Front

(2020) Solange
Tom and Lola
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5

Tom and Lola

(1990) Catherine, la mère de Tom
An Amazing Couple
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6

An Amazing Couple

(2002) Jeanne

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Eddy Leroy
Maud Duberry
2022 Catherine Frot
2021 Christine
2020 Ève
Solange
2019 Simone
2017 Mme Prioux
Self
Stéphane
Claire
Elle
2015 Marguerite Dumont
2012 Hortense
Prudence Beresford
Catherine
2011 Fabienne
2010 Imogène
2009 Maniette Thomas
Ombeline
2008 Prudence Beresford
Elsa Valentin
2007 Odette Toulemonde
Héloïse Maton
Additional Voices (voice)
2006 Ariane Fouchécourt
Monique Gaillard
2005 Prudence Beresford
Yseult Lespinglet
2004 Louise Mollet
Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau
Agnès
2003 Audrey
Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich
Jeanne Rivet
2002 Jeanne Coste
Jeanne
2001 Hélène
Sophie
1999 Antoinette Bomme
Gisèle
Pierrette Dumortier
Isabelle
1998 Self
Marie-Louise, the mother
Hélène
Evelyne Bordoni
Marlène Sasseur
1997 Béatrice Bretty
1996 Yolande Ménard
1994 Woman with Bookcase
1993 Martha Hubner
1992 Marylin
1990 La blonde
Catherine, la mère de Tom
1989 Babette
1988 Marion
1987 Cécile
1986 Elle
1985 Juliette
Béatrice
1984 Charlotte
1983 Jacky
1982 Mouche
Douniacha
1981 Véronique
Juliette
Babette
1980 Arlette jeune fille
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Year Character Movie/Tv

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