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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Movies (77)
5H48, Place des Martyrs
2027 · Jeanne Weber
Un Bon Patron
2026 · Sophie Blanchet
Lorsque l'enfant paraît
2025 · Olympe Jacquet
Misericordia
2024 · Martine
For Better and for Worse
2023 · Eddy Leroy
Til Death Do Us Part
2023 · Maud Duberry
Catherine Frot, tous ces yeux qui vous regardent
2022 · Catherine Frot
The Rose Maker
2021 · Ève
Under the Stars of Paris
2021 · Christine
Home Front
2020 · Solange
Just the Three of Us
2019 · Simone
Finding Momo
2017 · Mme Prioux
Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
2017 · Self
Fleur de cactus
2017 · Stéphane
The Midwife
2017 · Claire
The Chameleon Slayer
2015 · Elle
Marguerite
2015 · Marguerite Dumont
Haute Cuisine
2012 · Hortense
Partners in Crime
2012 · Prudence Beresford
Bowling
2012 · Catherine
Coup d'éclat
2011 · Fabienne
Imogène McCarthery
2010 · Imogène
Le vilain : Instantanés
2010 · Maniette Thomas
The Villain
2009 · Maniette Thomas
Happy End
2009 · Ombeline
Crime Is Our Business
2008 · Prudence Beresford
Mark of an Angel
2008 · Elsa Valentin
Odette Toulemonde
2007 · Odette Toulemonde
L'Affaire Ranucci : Le Combat d'une mère
2007 · Héloïse Maton
The Page Turner
2006 · Ariane Fouchécourt
One Summer
2006 · Monique Gaillard
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005 · Prudence Beresford
Boudu
2005 · Yseult Lespinglet
Me and My Sister
2004 · Louise Mollet
Viper in the Fist
2004 · Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau
Eros Therapy
2004 · Agnès
Seven Years of Marriage
2003 · Audrey
Chouchou
2003 · Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich
On the Run
2003 · Jeanne Rivet
After Life
2003 · Jeanne Coste
L'enfant éternel
2002 · Carole
An Amazing Couple
2002 · Jeanne
Chaos
2001 · Hélène
Day Off
2001 · Sophie
Dessine-moi un jouet
1999 · Antoinette Bomme
Inséparables
1999 · Gisèle
La Dilettante
1999 · Pierrette Dumortier
The New Eve
1999 · Isabelle
Dormez, je le veux!
1998 · Marie-Louise, the mother
Ça reste entre nous
1998 · Hélène
Paparazzi
1998 · Évelyne Bordoni, l'épouse de Franck
The Dinner Game
1998 · Marlène Sasseur
Quand j'étais p'tit
1997 · Suzanne
Le Dernier Été
1997 · Béatrice Bretty
Family Resemblances
1996 · Yolande Ménard
I Can't Sleep
1994 · Woman with Bookcase
East Wind
1993 · Martha Hubner
Old Rascal
1992 · Marylin
Welcome Aboard!
1990 · La blonde
Tom and Lola
1990 · Catherine, la mère de Tom
Separate Bedrooms
1989 · Babette
La Face de l'Ogre
1988 · Marion
Sorceress
1987 · Cécile
Mélodie pour un cafard
1986 · Elle
Elsa, Elsa
1985 · Juliette
Staircase C
1985 · Béatrice
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
1984 · Sophie
Salt on the Skin
1984 · Charlotte
A Stone in the Mouth
1983 · Jacky
Guy de Maupassant
1982 · Mouche
La Cerisaie
1982 · Douniacha
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
1981 · Véronique
La ville noire
1981 · Tonine
Un paquebot dans la tête
1981 · Juliette
Psy
1981 · Babette
My American Uncle
1980 · Arlette jeune fille
Docile
TV shows (9)
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023 · Self - Guest
Beau geste
2023 · Self
Inspectora Marleau
2015 · Florence Rougier
Clique
2013 · Self - Guest
C à vous
2009 · Self - Guest
The Apartment
2001 · Self - Guest
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self
Les Charmes de l'été
1975 · Béatrice
Grandiose
· La directrice