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