In the Frot family, we ask for the sisters. First there is Catherine, who needs no introduction. The actress who studied at the Versailles Conservatory before doing Rue Blanche saw her notoriety explode in 1995 with the piece of Jean-Pierre Bacri et Agnes Jaoui A family resemblance. Thanks to the play, she won a Molière for the role of Yolande.
This moving character will also bring him luck when he appears on the big screen. Cédric Klapisch’s film allowed him in 1997 to win the César for best supporting actress… Golden Women’s Trophy, Raimu Prize, Henri-Langlois Prize, Lumière Prize, a new César, another Molière, a globe crystal, nothing seems to resist the actress who celebrated her 68th birthday last May. But the Frot family has a second actress in the person of Dominiqueyounger sister – only one year younger – of Catherine.
Catherine Frot aged 68: who is her youngest sister Dominique?
“As a teenager, I could get lost for hours in the equations. I was happy, but I understood that my parents expected a lot from me and I very quickly felt the need to escape them. All my life, I felt like I was running away… So I made it my job”she said in the columns of Paris Match in 2020. “Dominique was a virtuoso pianist, she could have made it her profession”adds her eldest, slipping in passing that the two sisters were much more passionate about “swear word competition” which they indulged in among themselves. However, it is in the footsteps of his sister that Dominique Frot follows his path, following his career at the Versailles conservatory.
If the actress Catherine Frot is regularly the headliner of films that are big hits at the box office, Dominique’s career is less exposed. However, the one who was trained at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art then at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Musique never stops. She appears on stage, working in particular with Peter Brook, Julien Maury and Luc Bondy, and has a career in the cinema in more than forty films. It is found particularly in Deadly hikeby Claude Miller, The Ceremony by Claude Chabrol, The Serpent’s Revenge with feathers, by Gérard Oury, or the very famous Titane by Julia Ducournau, Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. On television, we see her in Profiling, Joséphine ange-gardien, Moulin Commissioner, Boulevard du Palais, Camping Paradisor very recently in Murders in Morvan et The secrets of the castle. But the television role that made him known to the general public, it is that of the principal Madame Vergneaux in the series SODA alongside Kev Adams. Dominique Frot is also the moving voice of Louise, in the sublime animated film by Jean-François Laguionie, Louise a hiccup.
Catherine and Dominique Frot actresses: two sisters used to the theater in the same film
After two careers led at a distance from each other, the two actresses who were as alike as two drops of water when younger presented a common front in the film Under the stars of Paris by Claus Drexel released in 2021. « Playing together represented an opportunity to look at oneself without intention and without expectationDominique confessed to Paris Match. We were thus able to share a blank page as if we did not know each other. » “Above all, we had a lot of funadmitted her eldest during this same interview. The fact of being totally made up and disguised echoed our childhood games. » What will make them want to come back? Only the future will tell…
