
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The Amateur as Florist
- 2023 · One Life as Betty Maxwell
- 2023 · Mars Express as Beryl (voice)
- 2023 · Beau geste as Self
- 2022 · Marie Antoinette as The Empress
- 2021 · My Wonderful Wanda as Elsa
- 2020 · My Little Sister as Kathy
- 2020 · Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star as Self
- 2019 · Sing Me Back Home as Louise
- 2019 · The Witness as Judge D'Amici
- 2018 · The Romanoffs as Anushka
- 2018 · The Escape as Anna
- 2017 · Murder In The Auvergne Mountains as Irène Volkov
- 2016 · Miséricorde as Gloria
- 2016 · After Love as Christine
- 2015 · Amnesia as Martha Sagell
- 2013 · Miserere as Laura Bernheim
- 2011 · Page Eight as Leona Chew
- 2011 · Jedermann Remixed as Buhlschaft (archive footage)
- 2011 · My Best Enemy as Hannah Kaufmann
- 2010 · Hereafter as Dr. Rousseau
- 2008 · Final Arrangements as Nickye
- 2008 · Cortex as Carole Rothmann
- 2007 · The Missing Granddaughter as Eva
- 2007 · Chrysalis as Professeur Brügen
- 2007 · UV as Mother
- 2006 · Fragile as Emma
- 2005 · G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten as Self
- 1998 · The School of Flesh as Madame Thorpe
- 1997 · Women as Barbara
- 1997 · K as Nora Winter
- 1997 · Nuits blanches as Julia
- 1995 · Belle Époque as Antoinette
- 1991 · Lapse of Memory as Linda Farmer (Marie Carson)
- 1991 · Young Catherine as Johanna
- 1987 · Dark Eyes as Tina, Romano's Mistress
- 1986 · Die Frau des Reporters as Esther
- 1985 · Joan Lui as Judy Johnson
- 1983 · Wagner as Mathilde Wesendonck
- 1983 · Jedermann as Buhlschaft
- 1982 · The Charterhouse of Parma as Gina Sanseverina
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1980 · The Formula as Lisa
- 1978 · Fedora as Fedora
- 1977 · Bobby Deerfield as Lillian
- 1977 · Black Sunday as Dahlia
- 1976 · Marathon Man as Elsa
- 1976 · The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People as Self
- 1976 · The Hornet's Nest as Melba
- 1975 · L'aigle à deux têtes as La reine
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1972 · A Loser as Catherine
- 1972 · Midi trente as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1971 · Arsène Lupin as Natacha
- 1971 · Samedi soir as Self
- 1967 · Wilder Reiter GmbH as Nonne
- 1966 · Funeral in Berlin as Brigit (uncredited)
- 1966 · Corinne und der Seebär as Corinne
- 1965 · Und nicht mehr Jessica as Jessica Lovell
- 1965 · Mariana Pineda as
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1948 · Bambi-Verleihung as Self
- Future · Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story as
- 2022 · Heidi's Alpine Dream as Johanna Spyri (voice)
- 2022 · Everybody Loves Jeanne as Claudia, mère de Jeanne
- 2019 · The Holy Family as La Mère
- 2019 · The Staggering Girl as Old Sofia
- 2019 · Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood as Herself
- 2018 · Breath of Life as Mathilde Chaykine
- 2018 · The Violet Hour as Anushka
- 2018 · Unveiled as Isabelle
- 2017 · Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder as Self
- 2015 · Homo Faber (Trois femmes) as Hanna
- 2014 · Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora as Self
- 2014 · La vie à l'envers as Nina
- 2012 · In a Rush as Mina
- 2011 · La Résidence as Léa
- 2011 · The Giants as Rosa
- 2010 · Bach rencontre Buxtehude as Voix off
- 2009 · Sous un autre jour as Iréne
- 2008 · Le Sanglot des anges as Eléonore
- 2008 · Modus Operandi as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Dans l'ombre du maître as Maria
- 2007 · La prophétie d'Avignon as Dona Flores
- 2004 · Nightsongs as Mutter
- 2004 · La Nourrice as Mme Dumayet-Ponti
- 2003 · Par amour as Nicole Doucet
- 2002 · Time of the Wolf as Rebecca McGregor
- 2001 · Tout va bien c'est Noël! as Jacqueline Bréaud
- 2001 · Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' as Self
- 1999 · From Behind as Christina
- 1995 · Pereira Declares as Mrs. Delgado
- 1995 · Tödliches Geld as Beatrice Belmont
- 1994 · Mon amie Max as Catherine Mercier
- 1993 · Liberate mio figlio as Elena
- 1993 · Im Kreis der Iris as Marikka
- 1993 · Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher as Jeanne d'arc
- 1992 · Turbulences as Hélène
- 1992 · À deux pas du paradis as Eva Grundberg
- 1989 · The Nightmare Years as Tess Shirer
- 1989 · Seven Minutes as Frau Wagner
- 1988 · La Ruelle au clair de lune as Nelly (Helma Schleyer)
- 1988 · Una vittoria (TV) as Julie
- 1987 · The Hospice as Cecile
- 1985 · Red Kiss as Bronka
- 1984 · Femmes de personne as Cecile
- 1983 · Der Platzanweiser as
- 1981 · The Amateur as Elisabeth
- 1975 · Down the Ancient Stairs as Bianca
- 1974 · Only the Wind Knows the Answer as Angela Delpierre
- 1974 · And Now My Love as Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother
- 1973 · Fall of a Body as Marthe Renon
- 1973 · The Right of the Maddest as L'auto-stoppeuse
- 1973 · The Suburbs Are Everywhere as Marlène Réval
- 1972 · La Demoiselle d'Avignon as Koba Lye-Lye (Princesse de Kurlande)
- 1972 · The Old Maid as Vicka
- 1972 · P'pa je serai serrurier as (voice)
- 1970 · Tango as Aline
- 1970 · Give Her the Moon as Marie Panneton
- 1969 · The Devil by the Tail as Amélie, baronne de Coustines
- 1969 · La veuve rusée as
- 1967 · Pfeiffer as Marthe
- 1966 · Kein Freibrief für Mord as Christine Foster
- 1965 · Antiquitäten as Junge Frau
- 1964 · Mein oder Dein as Jean
- 1964 · Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt as Der Friede