Catherine Frot
Frot at the César Awards 2009
Born	(1956-05-01) 1 May 1956 (age 56) Paris, France
Occupation	Actress

Catherine Frot is a theatre and film actress born in Paris, France on 1 May 1956.¹

Her surname is pronounced with a silent 't', as in 'to and fro'.

Biography

Early life

The daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher, Frot demonstrated comic traits and expressions at an early age. At the age of fourteen, she enrolled in the Versailles conservatory while still in school. By 1974, she began her education at the Rue Blanche school and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory.

Career

In 1975, she demonstrated her talent at the Festival d'Avignon in the Compagnie du Chapeau Rouge 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. She also received the Theatrical Critic Award in 1983 for her role in Jean Bouchot's C'était comment déjà ?.

In films, Frot has made an enormous reputation in France. She 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 Cedric 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 , a kind of French remake of The Seven Year Itch, Frot played a prudish banker, wife and mother, who is drawn by her bored, sexually frustrated husband into the world of Parisian clubs échangistes, or wife-swapping clubs.

Filmography

• 1980: Mon oncle d'Amérique by Alain Resnais
• 1980: Psy by Philippe de Broca
• 1985: Elsa, Elsa by Didier Haudepin
• 1986: Escalier C by Jean-Charles Tacchella
• 1990: Chambre à part by Jacky Cukier
• 1996: Un air de famille by Cédric Klapisch
• 1998: Paparazzi by Alain Berbérian
• 1998: Le Dîner de Cons by Francis Veber
• 1999: La Nouvelle Ève by Catherine Corsini
• 1999: La Dilettante by Pascal Thomas
• 2000: Inséparables by M. Couvelard
• 2001: Chaos by Coline Serreau
• 2003: 7 ans de mariage by Didier Bourdon
• 2003: Après la vie by Lucas Belvaux
• 2003: Cavale by Lucas Belvaux
• 2003: Chouchou by Merzak Allouache
• 2003: Un couple épatant by Lucas Belvaux
• 2004: Éros thérapie by Danièle Dubroux
• 2004: Vipère au poing by Philippe de Broca
• 2004: Les SÅ“urs fâchées by Alexandra Leclère
• 2005: Boudu by Gérard Jugnot
• 2005: Mon petit doigt m'a dit... by Pascal Thomas
• 2006: La Tourneuse de pages (English: The Page Turner) by Denis Dercourt
• 2007: Odette Toulemonde by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
• 2008: L'empreinte de l'ange (English: Mark of an Angel / Angel of Mine) by Safy Nebbou and Cyril Gomez-Mathieu
• 2008: Le crime est notre affaire by Pascal Thomas
• 2009: Le Vilain
• 2009: Happy End by Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu

Awards

• 1987: nomination for César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Escalier C
• 1995: Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress for Un air de famille (in theatre)
• 1997: César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Un air de famille (on film)
• 1999: Moscow International Film Festival : best actress for La Dilettante

She is officer of the Ordre national du Mérite.²

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Catherine Frot

• Catherine Frot at the Internet Movie Database
• (French) Portrait of Catherine Frot

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