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