Catherine Frot

Catherine Frot born 1 May 1956 is a French actress A tentime 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 fulltime studies at the conservatory In 1975 Frot appeared at the Festival dAvignon 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 Klapischs 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 wifeswapping clubs She is an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite Source Article Catherine Frot from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30