Catherine Frot

{{Short description|French actress (born 1956)}}

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| caption = Frot at the 67th Berlin Film Festival in 2017

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|5|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

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| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1975–present

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Catherine Frot ({{IPA|fr|katʁin fʁo}}; born 1 May 1956) is a French actress.{{cite web |url=http://www.lesgensducinema.com/affiche_acteur.php?mots=catherine+frot&nom_acteur=FROT%20Catherine&ident=15754&debut=0&record=0 |title=LES GENS DU CINEMA ©|language=fr}} A 10-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).

Early life

Frot was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher. Her younger sister, Dominique, is also an actress.{{cite web|title=Dominique Frot|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296596/|website=IMDb|accessdate=2017-12-04}} Catherine demonstrated comic talent at an early age, and enrolled in the Versailles conservatory when she was 14, and was still in school. In 1974, she began her education at the {{ill|Rue Blanche|fr|École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre}} school, and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory.

Career

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, she 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do;jsessionid=?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000018800905&dateTexte=&oldAction=rechJO|title=Décret du 16 mai 2008 portant promotion et nomination|language=fr}}

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1975

|Les Charmes de l'été

|Béatrice

|TV mini-series

1975

|Les Compagnons d'Eleusis

|The guardian

|TV series

1977

|L'Enlèvement du régent - Le chevalier d'Harmental

|Bathilde

|Telefilm

1980

|Mont-Oriol

|Charlotte Oriol

|Telefilm

1980

| My American Uncle

| Young Arlette Le Gall

|

1980

| Psy

| Babette

|

1980

| La Ville Noire

| Tonine

|Telefilm

1981

|Les Babas Cool

|Véronique

|

1981

|Mon meilleur Noël

|Claude's aunt

|TV series

1981—1982

|Cinéma 16

|Nathalie / Juliette

|TV series

1982

|La Cerisaie

|Donniacha

|Telefilm

1982

|Guy de Maupassant

| Mouche

|

1982

|Egmont

| Claire / Klare

|Telefilm

1982

|Si je réponds pas, c'est que je suis mort

|

|Short film

1982

|Les Atours de l'œil foudre

|

|Short film

1982

|La Nuit du lac

|

|Short film

1983

|A Stone in the Mouth

|Jacky

|

1983

|Orpheus

|Eurydice

|Telefilm

1984

|Les Amis de monsieur Gazon

|Patricia

|Telefilm

1984

|Les Timides aventures d'un laveur de carreaux

|Jacqueline

|Telefilm

1984

|Jacques le fataliste et son maître

|Sophie

|Telefilm

1984

| Du sel sur la peau

| Charlotte

|

1985

| Elsa, Elsa

| Juliette

|

1985

| Escalier C

| Béatrice

| Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actress

1985

| Mélodie pour un cafard

|

| Short film

1986

| L'inconnue de Vienne

| Juliette

| Telefilm

1987

| L'Heure Simenon

| Louise

| TV series

1987

| Sorceress

| Cécile

|

1987

| La Voix du désert

|

| Short film

1988

| La Face de l'ogre

| Marion

| Telefilm

1989

| Personne ne m'aime

|

| Telefilm

1989

| Chambre à part

| Babette

|

1990

| Tom et Lola

| Catherine (Tom's mother)

|

1990

| Bienvenue à bord !

| La blonde / Prostitute

|

1990

| Sésame, ouvre-toi!

|

| Telefilm

1991

| Haute tension

| Fabienne

| TV series

1991

|Sushi Sushi

| The banker

|

1992

|Juste avant l'orage

|Irène

|

1992

|Vieille canaille

|Marylin

|

1992

|Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

|Jacqueline Cauvin

|TV series

1993

|Vent d'est

|Martha Hubner

|

1993

|Ma petite Mimi

|Mimi

|Telefilm

1994

| I Can't Sleep

|Woman With Bookcase
(cameo appearance)

|

1994

| Un été à l'envers

|Marie

|Telefilm

1994

| Une femme dans l'ennui

|

|Short film

1995

| Sa dernière lettre

|Cécile

|Telefilm

1995

| Cycle Simenon

|Anna

|TV series

1996

|Family Resemblances

|Yolande

| César Award for Best Supporting Actress

1997

| Un homme

|Gisèle

|Telefilm

1997

| Quand j'étais p'tit

|Suzanne

|Telefilm

1997

| Le Dernier Été

|Béatrice Bretty

|Telefilm

1997

| Les Lauriers sont coupés

|Josy

|Telefilm

1998

| Le Dîner de Cons

|Marlène Sasseur

|Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actress

1998

| Paparazzi

|Evelyne Bordoni

|

1998

|Just Between Us

|Hélène

|

1998

|Dormez, je le veux !

|Marie-Louise, the mother

|

1998

|Je vais t'apprendre la politesse

|The Baroness

|TV series

1998

|It Would Only Take a Bridge

|

|Short film

1999

| À vot'service

| Fanny

|

1999

| The New Eve

| Isabelle

|

1999

| The Dilettante

| Pierrette Dumortier

| Best Actress Award (21st Moscow International Film Festival){{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1999 |title=21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999) |accessdate=2013-03-24 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322163246/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1999 |archivedate=2013-03-22 }}
Nominated—César Award for Best Actress

1999

| Inséparables

| Gisèle

|

1999

| Dessine-moi un jouet

|Antoinette Bomme

| Telefilm

2001

| Chaos

| Hélène

| Nominated—César Award for Best Actress

2001

| Day Off

| Sophie

|

2002

| Cavale

| rowspan=3| Jeanne Rivet

|

2002

| Après la vie

|

2002

| Un couple épatant

|

2002

| L'Enfant éternel

| Carole

| Telefilm

2003

| Chouchou

| Nicole Milovavovich

|

2003

| Married for 7 Years

| Audrey

|

2004

| Eros Therapy

| Agnès

|

2004

| Viper in the Fist

| Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau

|

2004

| Les Sœurs fâchées

| Louise Mollet

|

2005

| Boudu

| Yseult

| Nominated - Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actress

2005

| Mon petit doigt m'a dit...

| Prudence Beresford

|

2006

| The Page Turner

| Ariane Fouchécourt

| Nominated—César Award for Best Actress

2006

|Le Passager de l'été

|Monique

|

2007

| Odette Toulemonde

| Odette Toulemonde

| Nominated—César Award for Best Actress

2007

| L'Affaire Christian Ranucci : le Combat d'une mère

| Héloïse Ranucci

| Telefilm

2008

| Mark of an Angel

| Elsa Valentin

|Nominated—Lumière Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actress

2008

| Crime Is Our Business

| Prudence Beresford

| Nominated—César Award for Best Actress

2009

| Le Vilain

| Maniette

|

2009

| Happy End

| Ombeline

|

2010

|Le Mystère

|Valérie

|

2010

|Imogène McCarthery

|Imogène

|

2011

|Fabienne

|Fabienne Bourrier

|

2012

|Bowling

|Catherine

|

2012

|Partners in Crime

|Prudence Beresford

|

2012

|Haute Cuisine

|Hortense Laborie

|Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Lumière Award for Best Actress

2015

|Marguerite

|Marguerite Dumont

|César Award for Best Actress
Lumière Award for Best Actress

2016

|La Tueuse caméléon

|

|

2016

|Heureux en France

|

|

2017

|The Midwife

|Claire

|

2020

|Home Front

|

|

2020

|The Rose Maker (La fine fleur)

|Eve

|

References

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