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person_profile-Marthe Keller

Marthe Keller Age: 79

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Marthe Keller

Date of Birth:

Jan 28, 1945

Country of birth:

Switzerland

Biography of

Marthe Keller

    Marthe Keller (born 28 January 1945; Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss actress and opera director. She studied ballet as a child, but stopped after a skiing accident at age 16. She changed to acting, and worked in Berlin at the Schiller Theatre and the Berliner Ensemble.

    Keller's earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin (1966, uncredited) and the German film Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967). She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including Un cave (1971), La raison du plus fou (1973) and Toute une vie (And Now My Love, 1974). Her most famous American film appearances are her Golden Globe-nominated performance as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in Marathon Man and her performance as a femme fatale Arab terrorist who leads an attack on the Super Bowl in Black Sunday, both of them were ill-fated characters at the climax of each film. Keller also acted with William Holden in the 1978 Billy Wilder film Fedora. She appeared alongside Al Pacino in the auto racing film Bobby Deerfield, and subsequently the two of them were involved in a relationship. Since then, Keller has worked more steadily in European cinema compared to American movies. Her later films include Dark Eyes, with Marcello Mastroianni.

    In 2001, Keller appeared in a Broadway adaptation of Abby Mann's play Judgment at Nuremberg as Mrs. Bertholt (the role played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1961 Stanley Kramer film version). She was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for this performance.

    In addition to her work in film and theatre, Keller has developed a career in classical music as a speaker and opera director. She has performed the speaking role of Joan of Arc in the oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher of Arthur Honegger on several occasions, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur. She has recorded the role for Deutsche Grammophon with Ozawa (DG 429 412-2). Keller has also recited the spoken part in Igor Stravinsky's Perséphone. She has performed classical music melodramas for speaker and piano in recital. The Swiss composer Michael Jarrell wrote the melodrama Cassandre, after the novel of Christa Wolf, for Keller, who gave the world premiere in 1994.

    Keller's first production as an opera director was Dialogues des Carmélites, for Opéra National du Rhin, in 1999. This production subsequently received a semi-staged performance in London that year. She has also directed Lucia di Lammermoor for Washington National Opera and for Los Angeles Opera. Her directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera was in a 2004 production of Don Giovanni.

    Keller has a son, Alexandre (born 1971), from her relationship with Philippe de Broca.

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Filmography of

Marthe Keller

Found 69 Movies in total

One Life

Betty Maxwell ( Actor )

... 2023

Mars Express

Beryl (voice) ( Actor )

... 2023

Heidi's Alpine Dream

Johanna Spyri (voice) ( Actor )

... 2022

Everybody Loves Jeanne

Claudia, mère de Jeanne ( Actor )

... 2022

My Wonderful Wanda

Elsa ( Actor )

... 2021

My Little Sister

Kathy ( Actor )

... 2020

The Holy Family

La Mère ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2019

The Witness

Judge D'Amici ( Actor )

... 2019

Breath of Life

Mathilde Chaykine ( Actor )

... 2018

Unveiled

Isabelle ( Actor )

... 2018

The Escape

Anna ( Actor )

... 2018

... 2017

Murder In The Auvergne Mountains

Irène Volkov ( Actor )

... 2017

Miséricorde

Gloria ( Actor )

... 2016

After Love

Christine ( Actor )

... 2016

Amnesia

Martha Sagell ( Actor )

... 2015

... 2015

La vie à l'envers

Nina ( Actor )

... 2014

Miserere

Laura Bernheim ( Actor )

... 2013

In a Rush

Mina ( Actor )

... 2012

Page Eight

Leona Chew ( Actor )

... 2011

Jedermann Remixed

Buhlschaft (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2011

The Giants

Rosa ( Actor )

... 2011

My Best Enemy

Hannah Kaufmann ( Actor )

... 2011

Hereafter

Dr. Rousseau ( Actor )

... 2010

Sous un autre jour

Iréne ( Actor )

... 2009

Final Arrangements

Nickye ( Actor )

... 2008

Modus Operandi

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2008

Cortex

Carole Rothmann ( Actor )

... 2008

... 2007

Chrysalis

Professeur Brügen ( Actor )

... 2007

UV

Mother ( Actor )

... 2007

Fragile

Emma ( Actor )

... 2006

Nightsongs

Mutter ( Actor )

... 2004

La nourrice

Mme Dumayet-Ponti ( Actor )

... 2004

Time of the Wolf

Rebecca McGregor ( Actor )

... 2002

Tout va bien c'est Noël!

Jacqueline Bréaud ( Actor )

... 2001

From Behind

Christina ( Actor )

... 1999

The School of Flesh

Madame Thorpe ( Actor )

... 1998

Women

Barbara ( Actor )

... 1997

K

Nora Winter ( Actor )

... 1997

Nuits blanches

Julia ( Actor )

... 1997

Pereira Declares

Mrs. Delgado ( Actor )

... 1995

Mon amie Max

Catherine Mercier ( Actor )

... 1994

Lapse of Memory

Linda Farmer (Marie Carson) ( Actor )

... 1991

Seven Minutes

Frau Wagner ( Actor )

... 1989

Dark Eyes

Tina, Romano's Mistress ( Actor )

... 1987

The Hospice

Cecile ( Actor )

... 1987

Joan Lui

Judy Johnson ( Actor )

... 1985

Red Kiss

Bronka ( Actor )

... 1985

Femmes de personne

Cecile ( Actor )

... 1984

The Amateur

Elisabeth ( Actor )

... 1981

The Formula

Lisa ( Actor )

... 1980

Fedora

Fedora ( Actor )

... 1978

Bobby Deerfield

Lillian ( Actor )

... 1977

Black Sunday

Dahlia ( Actor )

... 1977

Marathon Man

Elsa ( Actor )

... 1976

The Hornet's Nest

Melba ( Actor )

... 1976

Down the Ancient Stairs

Bianca ( Actor )

... 1975

Only the Wind Knows the Answer

Angela Delpierre ( Actor )

... 1974

And Now My Love

Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother ( Actor )

... 1974

Fall of a Body

Marthe Renon ( Actor )

... 1973

The Suburbs Are Everywhere

Marlène Réval ( Actor )

... 1973

A Loser

Catherine ( Actor )

... 1972

The Old Maid

Vicka ( Actor )

... 1972

Give Her the Moon

Marie Panneton ( Actor )

... 1970

The Devil by the Tail

Amélie, baronne de Coustines ( Actor )

... 1969

Funeral in Berlin

Brigit (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1966