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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marthe Keller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Bambi
1948 · Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Midi trente
1972 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self
The Amateur
2025 · Florist
Beau geste
2023 · Self
Marie Antoinette
2022 · The Empress
The Romanoffs
2018 · Anushka
Arsène Lupin
1971 · Natacha
One Life
2023 · Betty Maxwell
Marathon Man
1976 · Elsa Opel
From Behind
1999 · Christina
La prophétie d'Avignon
2007 · Dona Flores
Hereafter
2010 · Dr. Rousseau
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
2001 · Jacqueline Bréaud
Fedora
1978 · Fedora
Wagner
1983 · Mathilde Wesendonck
Mars Express
2023 · Beryl (voice)
Homo Faber (Trois femmes)
2015 · Hanna
The Charterhouse of Parma
1982 · Gina Sanseverina
Page Eight
2011 · Leona Chew
Seven Minutes
1989 · Frau Wagner
Unveiled
2018 · Isabelle
The Amateur
1981 · Elisabeth
The Deal
2025 · Maria Cassini
La Demoiselle d'Avignon
1972 · Koba Lye-Lye (Princess...
Young Catherine
1991 · Johanna
In a Rush
2012 · Mina
Red Kiss
1985 · Bronka
Black Sunday
1977 · Dahlia
Funeral in Berlin
1966 · Brigit (uncredited)
The Missing Granddaughter
2007 · Eva
Bobby Deerfield
1977 · Lillian
Miserere
2013 · Laura Bernheim
The School of Flesh
1998 · Madame Thorpe
Fragile
2006 · Emma
After Love
2016 · Christine
The Old Maid
1972 · Vicka
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
The Staggering Girl
2019 · Old Sofia
The Nightmare Years
1989 · Tess Shirer
Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star
2020 · Self
Give Her the Moon
1970 · Marie Panneton
UV
2007 · Mother
The Escape
2018 · Anna
And Now My Love
1974 · Sarah / Her Mother / H...
My Best Enemy
2011 · Hannah Kaufmann
Amnesia
2015 · Martha Sagell
Nuits blanches
1997 · Julia
The Formula
1980 · Lisa
Women
1997 · Barbara
Time of the Wolf
2002 · Rebecca McGregor
Cortex
2008 · Carole Rothmann
Chrysalis
2007 · Professeur Brügen
Dark Eyes
1987 · Tina
The Devil by the Tail
1969 · Amélie, baronne de Cou...
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
1974 · Angela Delpierre
Everybody Loves Jeanne
2022 · Claudia, mère de Jeann...
Down the Ancient Stairs
1975 · Bianca
Femmes de personne
1984 · Cecile
La Ruelle au clair de lune
1988 · Nelly (Helma Schleyer)
Heidi's Alpine Dream
2022 · Johanna Spyri (voice)
Die Frau des Reporters
1986 · Esther
The Right of the Maddest
1973 · L'auto-stoppeuse
Breath of Life
2018 · Mathilde Chaykine
Le Sanglot des anges
2008 · Eléonore
Joan Lui
1985 · Judy Johnson
The Hospice
1987 · Cecile
K
1997 · Nora Winter
Mon amie Max
1994 · Catherine Mercier
Lapse of Memory
1991 · Linda Farmer (Marie Ca...
My Little Sister
2020 · Kathy
The Hornet's Nest
1976 · Melba
My Wonderful Wanda
2021 · Elsa
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains
2017 · Irène Volkov
Pereira Declares
1995 · Mrs. Delgado
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
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Final Arrangements
2008 · Nickye
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
1973 · Marlène Réval
The Holy Family
2019 · La Mère
La Nourrice
2004 · Mme Dumayet-Ponti
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017 · Self
Wilder Reiter GmbH
1967 · Nonne
La vie à l'envers
2014 · Nina
The Witness
2019 · Judge D'Amici
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
2001 · Self
Jedermann Remixed
2011 · Buhlschaft (archive fo...
A Loser
1972 · Catherine
The Giants
2011 · Rosa
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
1976 · Self
Sing Me Back Home
2019 · Louise
Fall of a Body
1973 · Marthe Renon
Sous un autre jour
2009 · Iréne
Nightsongs
2004 · Mutter
Miséricorde
2016 · Gloria
Modus Operandi
2008 · Narrator (voice)
Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood
2019 · Herself
Bach rencontre Buxtehude
2010 · Voix off