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

• 20275H48, Place des Martyrs — Jeanne Weber
• 2026Un bon patron
• 2025Lorsque l'enfant paraît — Olympe Jacquet
• 2024Misericordia — Martine
• 2023For Better and for Worse — Eddy Leroy
• 2023Til Death Do Us Part — Maud Duberry
• 2022Catherine Frot, tous ces yeux qui vous regardent — Catherine Frot
• 2021The Rose Maker — Ève
• 2021Under the Stars of Paris — Christine
• 2020Home Front — Solange
• 2019Just the Three of Us — Simone
• 2017Finding Momo — Mme Prioux
• 2017Fleur de cactus — Stéphane
• 2017The Midwife — Claire
• Capitaine Marleau — Florence Rougier
• 2015Marguerite — Marguerite Dumont
• 2015The Chameleon Slayer — Elle
• 2012Bowling — Catherine
• 2012Haute Cuisine — Hortense
• 2012Partners in Crime — Prudence Beresford
• 2011Coup d'éclat — Fabienne
• 2010Imogène McCarthery — Imogène
• 2010Le vilain : Instantanés — Maniette Thomas
• 2009Happy End — Ombeline
• 2009The Villain — Maniette Thomas
• 2008Crime Is Our Business — Prudence Beresford
• 2008Mark of an Angel — Elsa Valentin
• 2007L'Affaire Ranucci : Le Combat d'une mère — Héloïse Maton
• 2007Odette Toulemonde — Odette Toulemonde
• 2006One Summer — Monique Gaillard
• 2006The Page Turner — Ariane Fouchécourt
• 2005Boudu — Yseult Lespinglet
• 2005By the Pricking of My Thumbs — Prudence Beresford
• 2004Eros Therapy — Agnès
• 2004Me and My Sister — Louise Mollet
• 2004Viper in the Fist — Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau
• 2003After Life — Jeanne Coste
• 2003Chouchou — Le docteur Nicole Milovavovich
• 2003On the Run — Jeanne Rivet
• 2003Seven Years of Marriage — Audrey
• 2002An Amazing Couple — Jeanne
• 2002L'enfant éternel — Carole
• 2001Chaos — Hélène
• 2001Day Off — Sophie
• 1999Dessine-moi un jouet — Antoinette Bomme
• 1999Inséparables — Gisèle
• 1999La Dilettante — Pierrette Dumortier
• 1999The New Eve — Isabelle
• 1998Dormez, je le veux! — Marie-Louise, the mother
• 1998Paparazzi — Évelyne Bordoni, l'épouse de Franck
• 1998The Dinner Game — Marlène Sasseur
• 1998Ça reste entre nous — Hélène
• 1997Le Dernier Été — Béatrice Bretty
• 1997Quand j'étais p'tit — Suzanne
• 1996Family Resemblances — Yolande Ménard
• 1994I Can't Sleep — Woman with Bookcase
• 1993East Wind — Martha Hubner
• 1992Old Rascal — Marylin
• 1990Tom and Lola — Catherine, la mère de Tom
• 1990Welcome Aboard! — La blonde
• 1989Separate Bedrooms — Babette
• 1988La Face de l'Ogre — Marion
• 1987Sorceress — Cécile
• 1986Mélodie pour un cafard — Elle
• 1985Elsa, Elsa — Juliette
• 1985Staircase C — Béatrice
• 1984Jacques the Fatalist and His Master — Sophie
• 1984Salt on the Skin — Charlotte
• 1983A Stone in the Mouth — Jacky
• 1982Guy de Maupassant — Mouche
• 1982La Cerisaie — Douniacha
• 1981La ville noire — Tonine
• 1981Psy — Babette
• 1981Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe ! — Véronique
• 1981Un paquebot dans la tête — Juliette
• 1980My American Uncle — Arlette jeune fille
• Les Charmes de l'été — Béatrice
• Docile
• Grandiose — La directrice

Appearances as themselves (7)

• Beau geste — Self
• Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma — Self - Guest
• 2017Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel — Self
• Clique — Self - Guest
• C à vous — Self - Guest
• The Apartment — Self - Guest
• Vivement dimanche — Self