Catherine Frot in La Tourneuse De... | 2006

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Catherine Frot in La Tourneuse De Pages | 2006

Starring: Catherine Frot, Déborah François and Pascal Greggory
Directed by: Denis Dercourt
About this actor

Catherine Frot is a theatre and film actress born in Paris, France on 1 May 1956. The daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher, Frot demonstrated comic traits and expressions at an early age. At the age of fourteen, she enrolled in the Versailles conservatory while still in school. By 1974, she began her education at the Rue Blanche school and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory. In 1975, she demonstrated her talent at the Festival d'Avignon in the Compagnie du Chapeau Rouge 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. She also received the Theatrical Critic Award in 1983 for her role in Jean Bouchot's C'était comment déjà ?. In films, Frot (pronounced...