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Catherine Frot
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.
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Capitaine Marleau
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The Apartment
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The Dinner Game
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Me and My Sister
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Misericordia
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My American Uncle
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Chaos
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives....
The Midwife
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The Page Turner
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Haute Cuisine
The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
Marguerite
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The Rose Maker
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The Villain
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Paparazzi
Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.
Lorsque l'enfant paraît
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Chouchou
Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew....
Happy End
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Psy
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Finding Momo
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I Can't Sleep
Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an...
A Stone in the Mouth
A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives.
Family Resemblances
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal,...
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have...
Odette Toulemonde
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Crime Is Our Business
Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
Home Front
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Ça reste entre nous
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Boudu
A modern remake of Renoir's classic film. Aix-en-Provence, a spring night. Christian Lespinglet, an over-indebt...
Under the Stars of Paris
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The New Eve
Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to...