Catherine Frot ([kaˈtÊ in_ˈfÊ o]; 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
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