Catherine Frot
Acting • Born 1956-05-01
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.
Filmography
81 credits
For Better and for Worse
Movie • 2023
Eddy Leroy
Me and My Sister
Movie • 2004
Louise Mollet
Odette Toulemonde
Movie • 2007
Odette Toulemonde
Til Death Do Us Part
Movie • 2023
Maud Duberry
On the Run
Movie • 2003
Jeanne Rivet
Viper in the Fist
Movie • 2004
Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Movie • 2005
Prudence Beresford
The Page Turner
Movie • 2006
Ariane Fouchécourt
The Dinner Game
Movie • 1998
Marlène Sasseur
Mark of an Angel
Movie • 2008
Elsa Valentin
The Villain
Movie • 2009
Maniette Thomas
Staircase C
Movie • 1985
Béatrice
Boudu
Movie • 2005
Yseult Lespinglet
Family Resemblances
Movie • 1996
Yolande Ménard
One Summer
Movie • 2006
Monique Gaillard
Crime Is Our Business
Movie • 2008
Prudence Beresford
An Amazing Couple
Movie • 2002
Jeanne
After Life
Movie • 2003
Jeanne Coste
Chaos
Movie • 2001
Hélène
La Face de l'Ogre
Movie • 1988
Marion
The New Eve
Movie • 1999
Isabelle
Chouchou
Movie • 2003
Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich
Imogène McCarthery
Movie • 2010
Imogène
Eros Therapy
Movie • 2004
Agnès
Seven Years of Marriage
Movie • 2003
Audrey
Happy End
Movie • 2009
Ombeline
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Movie • 1981
Véronique
Coup d'éclat
Movie • 2011
Fabienne
Psy
Movie • 1981
Babette
Le Dernier Été
Movie • 1997
Béatrice Bretty
Tom and Lola
Movie • 1990
Catherine, la mère de Tom
Day Off
Movie • 2001
Sophie
La Dilettante
Movie • 1999
Pierrette Dumortier
Bowling
Movie • 2012
Catherine
Partners in Crime
Movie • 2012
Prudence Beresford
East Wind
Movie • 1993
Martha Hubner
Old Rascal
Movie • 1992
Marylin
Welcome Aboard!
Movie • 1990
La blonde
Haute Cuisine
Movie • 2012
Hortense
Ça reste entre nous
Movie • 1998
Hélène
Separate Bedrooms
Movie • 1989
Babette
Salt on the Skin
Movie • 1984
Charlotte
L'Affaire Ranucci : Le Combat d'une mère
Movie • 2007
Héloïse Maton
Inséparables
Movie • 1999
Gisèle
La Cerisaie
Movie • 1982
Douniacha
Misericordia
Movie • 2024
Martine
Mélodie pour un cafard
Movie • 1986
Elle
Guy de Maupassant
Movie • 1982
Mouche
L'enfant éternel
Movie • 2002
Carole
Elsa, Elsa
Movie • 1985
Juliette
Quand j'étais p'tit
Movie • 1997
Suzanne
Dormez, je le veux!
Movie • 1998
Marie-Louise, the mother
Paparazzi
Movie • 1998
Évelyne Bordoni, l'épouse de Franck
Marguerite
Movie • 2015
Marguerite Dumont
A Stone in the Mouth
Movie • 1983
Jacky
The Midwife
Movie • 2017
Claire
The Chameleon Slayer
Movie • 2015
Elle
Finding Momo
Movie • 2017
Mme Prioux
Fleur de cactus
Movie • 2017
Stéphane
Under the Stars of Paris
Movie • 2021
Christine
Just the Three of Us
Movie • 2019
Simone
My American Uncle
Movie • 1980
Arlette jeune fille
Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
Movie • 2017
Self
Sorceress
Movie • 1987
Cécile
Home Front
Movie • 2020
Solange
The Rose Maker
Movie • 2021
Ève
Dessine-moi un jouet
Movie • 1999
Antoinette Bomme
I Can't Sleep
Movie • 1994
Woman with Bookcase
Un paquebot dans la tête
Movie • 1981
Juliette
Catherine Frot, tous ces yeux qui vous regardent
Movie • 2022
Catherine Frot
Le vilain : Instantanés
Movie • 2010
Maniette Thomas
Un bon patron
Movie • 2026
Lorsque l'enfant paraît
Movie • 2025
Olympe Jacquet
Capitaine Marleau
TV • 2015
Florence Rougier
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
C à vous
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Beau geste
TV • 2023
Self
Clique
TV • 2013
Self - Guest
Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
TV • 2023
Self - Guest
The Apartment
TV • 2001
Self - Guest
Grandiose
TV
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