Catherine Frot

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Catherine Frot is a theatre and film actress born in Paris, France on May 1, 1957.

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Her father was an engineer and her mother, a teacher of mathematics. At an early age, she was already demonstrating comical traits and expressions so by the age of fourteen she had classes at the Versailles conservatory while still in school. By 1974, she began her education at Rue Blanche's school and afterward, full-time, at the conservatory. In 1975, she demonstrated her talent at the Festival d'Avignon in the Compagnie du Chapeau Rouge whihc she founded with the help of others. From then on she put all her energy in 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 and La Mouette in a scenario by Peter Brook in 1982 and Pierre Pradinas in 1985. She also received the Theatrical Critic Award in 1983 for her role in Jean Bouchot's C'était comment déjà ?.

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