Marthe Keller
Acting • Born 1945-01-28
Biography
Marthe Keller (born 28 January 1945; Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss actress and opera director. She studied ballet as a child, but stopped after a skiing accident at age 16. She changed to acting, and worked in Berlin at the Schiller Theatre and the Berliner Ensemble. Keller's earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin (1966, uncredited) and the German film Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967). She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including Un cave (1971), La raison du plus fou (1973) and Toute une vie (And Now My Love, 1974). Her most famous American film appearances are her Golden Globe-nominated performance as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in Marathon Man and her performance as a femme fatale Arab terrorist who leads an attack on the Super Bowl in Black Sunday, both of them were ill-fated characters at the climax of each film. Keller also acted with William Holden in the 1978 Billy Wilder film Fedora. She appeared alongside Al Pacino in the auto racing film Bobby Deerfield, and subsequently the two of them were involved in a relationship. Since then, Keller has worked more steadily in European cinema compared to American movies. Her later films include Dark Eyes, with Marcello Mastroianni. In 2001, Keller appeared in a Broadway adaptation of Abby Mann's play Judgment at Nuremberg as Mrs. Bertholt (the role played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1961 Stanley Kramer film version). She was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for this performance. In addition to her work in film and theatre, Keller has developed a career in classical music as a speaker and opera director. She has performed the speaking role of Joan of Arc in the oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher of Arthur Honegger on several occasions, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur. She has recorded the role for Deutsche Grammophon with Ozawa (DG 429 412-2). Keller has also recited the spoken part in Igor Stravinsky's Perséphone. She has performed classical music melodramas for speaker and piano in recital. The Swiss composer Michael Jarrell wrote the melodrama Cassandre, after the novel of Christa Wolf, for Keller, who gave the world premiere in 1994. Keller's first production as an opera director was Dialogues des Carmélites, for Opéra National du Rhin, in 1999. This production subsequently received a semi-staged performance in London that year. She has also directed Lucia di Lammermoor for Washington National Opera and for Los Angeles Opera. Her directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera was in a 2004 production of Don Giovanni. Keller has a son, Alexandre (born 1971), from her relationship with Philippe de Broca. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marthe Keller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
127 credits
Marathon Man
Movie • 1976
Elsa Opel
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Movie • 1974
Angela Delpierre
The Amateur
Movie • 1981
Elisabeth
The Formula
Movie • 1980
Lisa
Chrysalis
Movie • 2007
Professeur Brügen
Heidi's Alpine Dream
Movie • 2022
Johanna Spyri (voice)
Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood
Movie • 2019
Herself
Bobby Deerfield
Movie • 1977
Lillian
Final Arrangements
Movie • 2008
Nickye
Dark Eyes
Movie • 1987
Tina
Cortex
Movie • 2008
Carole Rothmann
Pereira Declares
Movie • 1995
Mrs. Delgado
Everybody Loves Jeanne
Movie • 2022
Claudia, mère de Jeanne
From Behind
Movie • 1999
Christina
Time of the Wolf
Movie • 2002
Rebecca McGregor
Joan Lui
Movie • 1985
Judy Johnson
Black Sunday
Movie • 1977
Dahlia
UV
Movie • 2007
Mother
Mars Express
Movie • 2023
Beryl (voice)
Page Eight
Movie • 2011
Leona Chew
Fedora
Movie • 1978
Fedora
Fall of a Body
Movie • 1973
Marthe Renon
Women
Movie • 1997
Barbara
My Best Enemy
Movie • 2011
Hannah Kaufmann
The Giants
Movie • 2011
Rosa
The School of Flesh
Movie • 1998
Madame Thorpe
The Devil by the Tail
Movie • 1969
Amélie, baronne de Coustines
Down the Ancient Stairs
Movie • 1975
Bianca
The Old Maid
Movie • 1972
Vicka
Nightsongs
Movie • 2004
Mutter
La Nourrice
Movie • 2004
Mme Dumayet-Ponti
In a Rush
Movie • 2012
Mina
And Now My Love
Movie • 1974
Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother
Miserere
Movie • 2013
Laura Bernheim
Red Kiss
Movie • 1985
Bronka
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
Movie • 1973
Marlène Réval
The Missing Granddaughter
Movie • 2007
Eva
Mon amie Max
Movie • 1994
Catherine Mercier
One Life
Movie • 2023
Betty Maxwell
Seven Minutes
Movie • 1989
Frau Wagner
Wilder Reiter GmbH
Movie • 1967
Nonne
K
Movie • 1997
Nora Winter
The Violet Hour
Movie • 2018
Anushka
Bach rencontre Buxtehude
Movie • 2010
Voix off
Und nicht mehr Jessica
Movie • 1965
Jessica Lovell
La Résidence
Movie • 2011
Léa
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
Movie
Femmes de personne
Movie • 1984
Cecile
Give Her the Moon
Movie • 1970
Marie Panneton
The Hornet's Nest
Movie • 1976
Melba
Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt
Movie • 1964
Der Friede
Tödliches Geld
Movie • 1995
Beatrice Belmont
Jedermann
Movie • 1983
Buhlschaft
Amnesia
Movie • 2015
Martha Sagell
Tango
Movie • 1970
Aline
After Love
Movie • 2016
Christine
Pfeiffer
Movie • 1967
Marthe
Mein oder Dein
Movie • 1964
Jean
A Loser
Movie • 1972
Catherine
La vie à l'envers
Movie • 2014
Nina
Par amour
Movie • 2003
Nicole Doucet
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains
Movie • 2017
Irène Volkov
Homo Faber (Trois femmes)
Movie • 2015
Hanna
Hereafter
Movie • 2010
Dr. Rousseau
Sous un autre jour
Movie • 2009
Iréne
Dans l'ombre du maître
Movie • 2008
Maria
Fragile
Movie • 2006
Emma
Nuits blanches
Movie • 1997
Julia
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Movie • 1993
Jeanne d'arc
Liberate mio figlio
Movie • 1993
Elena
Im Kreis der Iris
Movie • 1993
Marikka
Turbulences
Movie • 1992
Hélène
À deux pas du paradis
Movie • 1992
Eva Grundberg
Lapse of Memory
Movie • 1991
Linda Farmer (Marie Carson)
La Ruelle au clair de lune
Movie • 1988
Nelly (Helma Schleyer)
Una vittoria (TV)
Movie • 1988
Julie
The Hospice
Movie • 1987
Cecile
Die Frau des Reporters
Movie • 1986
Esther
Der Platzanweiser
Movie • 1983
L'aigle à deux têtes
Movie • 1975
La reine
La veuve rusée
Movie • 1969
Rosaura
Funeral in Berlin
Movie • 1966
Brigit (uncredited)
Corinne und der Seebär
Movie • 1966
Corinne
Kein Freibrief für Mord
Movie • 1966
Christine Foster
Mariana Pineda
Movie • 1965
Antiquitäten
Movie • 1965
Junge Frau
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
Movie • 2001
Jacqueline Bréaud
P'pa je serai serrurier
Movie • 1972
(voice)
The Escape
Movie • 2018
Anna
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Movie • 2017
Self
The Witness
Movie • 2019
Judge D'Amici
Breath of Life
Movie • 2018
Mathilde Chaykine
Jedermann Remixed
Movie • 2011
Buhlschaft (archive footage)
Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora
Movie • 2014
Self
The Staggering Girl
Movie • 2019
Old Sofia
Sing Me Back Home
Movie • 2019
Louise
Unveiled
Movie • 2018
Isabelle
The Holy Family
Movie • 2019
La Mère
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Movie • 2001
Self
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Movie • 1976
Self
Modus Operandi
Movie • 2008
Narrator (voice)
My Little Sister
Movie • 2020
Kathy
Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star
Movie • 2020
Self
The Right of the Maddest
Movie • 1973
L'auto-stoppeuse
Miséricorde
Movie • 2016
Gloria
My Wonderful Wanda
Movie • 2021
Elsa
The Amateur
Movie • 2025
Florist
La Demoiselle d'Avignon
TV • 1972
Koba Lye-Lye (Princesse de Kurlande)
Wagner
TV • 1983
Mathilde Wesendonck
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Arsène Lupin
TV • 1971
Natacha
Le Sanglot des anges
TV • 2008
Eléonore
La prophétie d'Avignon
TV • 2007
Dona Flores
Belle Époque
TV • 1995
Antoinette
The Nightmare Years
TV • 1989
Tess Shirer
The Charterhouse of Parma
TV • 1982
Gina Sanseverina
Young Catherine
TV • 1991
Johanna
Marie Antoinette
TV • 2022
The Empress
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Beau geste
TV • 2023
Self
The Romanoffs
TV • 2018
Anushka
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
TV • 2005
Self