Celebrity Biographies
Catherine Frot
Since she was little, she already had a gift for comedy. At just 14 years old she and she began to give her first acting classes and at 21 she was co-founder of the Chapeau rouge company. Although she initially wanted to dedicate herself to the theater, Catherine Frot decided to give the cinema a chance, and she continues there.
Catherine Frot was born in Paris on May 1, 1956. The daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher, she studied acting at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in her hometown. She began her career as an actress doing plays and taking part in television productions of the 70s. She made her film debut in 1980 thanks to My Uncle from America , a film directed by Alain Resnais .
For many years he quietly participated in numerous French films, including Elsa, Elsa (1985), Escalier C (1986) and Chambre á par t (1990). But her international revelation came from the hand of the dramatic comedy Como en las mejores familias (1996), thanks to which she won the César Award for best supporting actress. Another film with which she was successful was Dinner for Idiots (1998), a very famous comedy directed by Francis Veber , where she Frot had a small role.
In 2001, she starred in Chaos , a major film by French director Coline Serreau about prostitution mafias and the situation of immigrants to integrate into Western life. Catherine Frot is superb with a more dramatic work. A year later we could also see her in the thriller Escapando (2002), in the most romantic A Perfect Couple (2002), and in After Life (2002), all of them within a trilogy directed by Lucas Belvaux .
Merzak Allouache decided to cast Catherine for the immigration comedy Chouchou (2002), which tells the story of a North African man who arrives in Paris. And one of her best roles came two years later with The Angry Sisters (2004), where she shared credits with the splendid Isabelle Huppert . Frot plays Louise, Huppert’s sister, with whom he has a bad relationship due to her different characters. In 2006 he got the leading role in the nice Odette, a comedy about happiness . This comedy, directed by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt , tells the story of how Odette meets her favorite writer Balthazar Balsan ( Albert Dupontel ).
Other of his works have been the comedy without much success We have a big problem (2005), by Gérard Jugnot ; Denis Dercourt ‘s “Chabrolian” thriller The Last Note (2006) and The President’s Cook (2012), a biographical comedy by Christian Vincent . In 2008, she once again demonstrated her talent by starring in Mark of the Angel , a dramatic thriller directed by the prestigious theater director Safy Nebbou, where Frot plays a divorced woman obsessed with a seven-year-old girl who she believes is her daughter. deceased from her
Her latest work on the big screen has been Madame Marguerite (2015), a tragicomedy in which she plays Marguerite Dumont, a music-loving baroness who organizes evenings for friends and aristocrats in her castle every year. Marguerite is the final star of the parties singing opera arias, but she is unaware that she is terribly off key and that she is the laughingstock of her guests. The film stands out for its careful production and once again for the excellent work of Catherine Frot.
In addition to her entire career in cinema, Catherine has also participated in numerous plays, short films and TV movies produced in France. Of the latter, Orphée (1993), Dessine-moi un jouet (1999) and L’Affaire Christian Ranucci: Le combat d’une mère (2006) stand out. As for her private life, the actress is married to the director Michel Couvelard, with whom she has an adoptive daughter.