Catherine Frot
{{Short description|French actress (born 1956)}}
{{use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
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| name = Catherine Frot
| image =MJK34553 Catherine Frot (Sage Femme, Berlinale 2017).jpg
| 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
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| 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
| Young Arlette Le Gall | |
| 1980
| Psy | Babette | |
| 1980
| La Ville Noire | Tonine |Telefilm |
| 1981
|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
| Catherine (Tom's mother) | |
| 1990
| Bienvenue à bord ! | La blonde / Prostitute | |
| 1990
| Sésame, ouvre-toi! | | Telefilm |
| 1991
| Haute tension | Fabienne | TV series |
| 1991
| The banker | |
| 1992
|Juste avant l'orage |Irène | |
| 1992
|Vieille canaille |Marylin | |
| 1992
|Jacqueline Cauvin |TV series |
| 1993
|Martha Hubner | |
| 1993
|Ma petite Mimi |Mimi |Telefilm |
| 1994
|Woman With Bookcase | |
| 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
|Yolande |
| 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
|Marlène Sasseur |Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 1998
|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
| 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 }} |
| 1999
| 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
| |
| 2002
| |
| 2002
| L'Enfant éternel | Carole | Telefilm |
| 2003
| Chouchou | Nicole Milovavovich | |
| 2003
| Married for 7 Years | Audrey | |
| 2004
| Eros Therapy | Agnès | |
| 2004
| Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau | |
| 2004
| Louise Mollet | |
| 2005
| Boudu | Yseult | Nominated - Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actress |
| 2005
| Prudence Beresford | |
| 2006
| Ariane Fouchécourt | Nominated—César Award for Best Actress |
| 2006
|Le Passager de l'été |Monique | |
| 2007
| Odette Toulemonde | Nominated—César Award for Best Actress |
| 2007
| L'Affaire Christian Ranucci : le Combat d'une mère | Héloïse Ranucci | Telefilm |
| 2008
| Elsa Valentin |Nominated—Lumière Award for Best Actress |
| 2008
| Prudence Beresford | Nominated—César Award for Best Actress |
| 2009
| Maniette | |
| 2009
| Ombeline | |
| 2010
|Le Mystère |Valérie | |
| 2010
|Imogène McCarthery |Imogène | |
| 2011
|Fabienne |Fabienne Bourrier | |
| 2012
|Bowling |Catherine | |
| 2012
|Partners in Crime |Prudence Beresford | |
| 2012
|Hortense Laborie |Nominated—César Award for Best Actress |
| 2015
|Marguerite Dumont |
| 2016
|La Tueuse caméléon | | |
| 2016
|Heureux en France | | |
| 2017
|Claire | |
| 2020
| | |
| 2020
|The Rose Maker (La fine fleur) |Eve | |
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|id=0296594|name=Catherine Frot}}
- {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.artistikrezo.com/cinema/dossiers/catherine-frot-portrait.html Portrait of Catherine Frot]
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{{Lumière Award for Best Actress}}
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Category:French film actresses
Category:French stage actresses
Category:French television actresses
Category:Best Supporting Actress César Award winners
Category:20th-century French actresses
Category:21st-century French actresses
Category:Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
Category:Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
Category:French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni