Catherine Frot
Catherine Frot (; born 1 May 1956) is a French actress. A 10-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). Early life. 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 14, and was still in school . In 1974, she began her education at the school, and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory. Career. 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.