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Marthe Keller

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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One Life

2023

as Betty Maxwell

Mars Express

2023

as Beryl (voice)

Beau geste

2023

as Self

Marie Antoinette

2022

as The Empress

Heidi's Alpine Dream

2022

as Johanna Spyri (voice)

Everybody Loves Jeanne

2022

as Claudia, mère de Jeanne

My Wonderful Wanda

2021

as Elsa

My Little Sister

2020

as Kathy

Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star

2020

as Self

The Holy Family

2019

as La Mère

The Staggering Girl

2019

as Old Sofia

Sing Me Back Home

2019

The Witness

2019

as Judge D'Amici

Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood

2019

as Herself

Breath of Life

2018

as Mathilde Chaykine

The Violet Hour

2018

as Anushka

The Romanoffs

2018

as Anushka

Unveiled

2018

as Isabelle

The Escape

2018

as Anna

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

2017

as Self

Murder In The Auvergne Mountains

2017

as Irène Volkov

Miséricorde

2016

as Gloria

After Love

2016

as Christine

Amnesia

2015

as Martha Sagell

Homo Faber (Trois femmes)

2015

as Hanna

Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora

2014

as Herself

La vie à l'envers

2014

as Nina

Miserere

2013

as Laura Bernheim

In a Rush

2012

as Mina

Page Eight

2011

as Leona Chew

Jedermann Remixed

2011

as Buhlschaft (archive footage)

La Résidence

2011

as Léa

The Giants

2011

as Rosa

My Best Enemy

2011

as Hannah Kaufmann

Hereafter

2010

as Dr. Rousseau

Bach rencontre Buxtehude

2010

as Voix off

Sous un autre jour

2009

as Iréne

Final Arrangements

2008

as Nickye

Le Sanglot des anges

2008

as Eléonore

Modus Operandi

2008

as Narrator (voice)

Dans l'ombre du maître

2008

as Maria

Cortex

2008

as Carole Rothmann

The Missing Granddaughter

2007

as Eva

La prophétie d'Avignon

2007

as Dona Flores

Chrysalis

2007

as Professeur Brügen

UV

2007

as Mother

Fragile

2006

as Emma

Nightsongs

2004

as Mutter

La nourrice

2004

as Mme Dumayet-Ponti

Par amour

2003

as Nicole Doucet

Time of the Wolf

2002

as Rebecca McGregor

Tout va bien c'est Noël!

2001

as Jacqueline Bréaud

Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'

2001

as Self

From Behind

1999

as Christina

The School of Flesh

1998

as Madame Thorpe

Women

1997

as Barbara

K

1997

as Nora Winter

Nuits blanches

1997

as Julia

Pereira Declares

1995

as Mrs. Delgado

Tödliches Geld

1995

as Beatrice Belmont

Belle Époque

1995

as Antoinette

Mon amie Max

1994

as Catherine Mercier

Liberate mio figlio

1993

as Elena

Im Kreis der Iris

1993

as Marikka

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

1993

as Jeanne d'arc

Turbulences

1992

as Hélène

À deux pas du paradis

1992

as Eva Grundberg

Lapse of Memory

1991

as Linda Farmer (Marie Carson)

Young Catherine

1991

as Johanna

The Nightmare Years

1989

as Tess Shirer

Seven Minutes

1989

as Frau Wagner

La Ruelle au clair de lune

1988

as Nelly (Helma Schleyer)

Una vittoria (TV)

1988

as Julie

Dark Eyes

1987

as Tina, Romano's Mistress

The Hospice

1987

as Cecile

Die Frau des Reporters

1986

as Esther

Joan Lui

1985

as Judy Johnson

Red Kiss

1985

as Bronka

Femmes de personne

1984

as Cecile

Wagner

1983

as Mathilde Wesendonck

Der Platzanweiser

1983

Jedermann

1983

as Buhlschaft

The Charterhouse of Parma

1982

as Gina Sanseverina

The Amateur

1981

as Elisabeth

The Formula

1980

as Lisa

Fedora

1978

as Fedora

Bobby Deerfield

1977

as Lillian

Black Sunday

1977

as Dahlia

Marathon Man

1976

as Elsa

The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People

1976

as Self

The Hornet's Nest

1976

as Melba

Down the Ancient Stairs

1975

as Bianca

L'aigle à deux têtes

1975

as La reine

Only the Wind Knows the Answer

1974

as Angela Delpierre

And Now My Love

1974

as Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother

Fall of a Body

1973

as Marthe Renon

The Right of the Maddest

1973

as l'auto-stoppeuse

The Right of the Maddest

1973

as L'auto-stoppeuse

The Suburbs Are Everywhere

1973

as Marlène Réval

A Loser

1972

as Catherine

Midi trente

1972

as Self

Le Grand Échiquier

1972

as Self

La Demoiselle d'Avignon

1972

as Koba Lye-Lye (Princesse de Kurlande)

The Old Maid

1972

as Vicka

P'pa je serai serrurier

1972

as (voice)

Arsène Lupin

1971

as Natacha

Tango

1970

as Aline

Give Her the Moon

1970

as Marie Panneton

The Devil by the Tail

1969

as Amélie, baronne de Coustines

La veuve rusée

1969

Pfeiffer

1967

as Marthe

Wilder Reiter GmbH

1967

as Nonne

Funeral in Berlin

1966

as Brigit (uncredited)

Corinne und der Seebär

1966

as Corinne

Kein Freibrief für Mord

1966

as Christine Foster

Und nicht mehr Jessica

1965

as Jessica Lovell

Mariana Pineda

1965

Antiquitäten

1965

as Junge Frau

Mein oder Dein

1964

as Jean

Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt

1964

as Der Friede

The Oscars

1953

as Self

Bambi Awards

1948

as Self

Midnight Men - A John Schlesinger & Michael Childers Story