Catherine Frot: who is her famous sister, also an actress? – Here is

It is this Thursday, February 24 that France 3 will broadcast Crime is our business, the delicious detective comedy by Pascal Thomas, with André Dussollier and Catherine Frot. The opportunity to portray Dominique Frot, younger sister of the actress. A face and a voice, well known to the general public…

In the Frot family, we ask for the sisters. Firstly there is Catherine, who needs no introduction. The actress who studied at the Versailles Conservatory before doing Rue Blanche saw its notoriety explode from 1995 with the play by Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui A family resemblance. Thanks to the coin, she wins a Molière for the role of Yolande.

This moving character will also bring him luck when he passes on the big screen. Cédric Klapisch’s film allows him in 1997 to win the César for Best Supporting Actress… Women’s Gold Trophy, Raimu Prize, Henri-Langlois Prize, Lumière Prize, a new César, another Molière, a crystal globe, nothing seems to resist the actress who will celebrate her 66th birthday on May 1st. But the Frot family has a second actress in the person of Dominique, Catherine’s younger sister.

And finally play together

” teenage girlshe told in the columns of Paris Match in 2020, I could lose myself 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 get out of it. All my life I felt like I was running away… So I made it my job “, she told in the columns of Paris Match in 2020.” Dominique was a virtuoso pianist, she could have made it her profession “, adds his eldest. It is however in the footsteps of his sister that Dominique Frot puts his own, following his career at the Versailles Conservatory.

If Catherine Frot is regularly the headliner of successful films, Dominique’s career is less exposed, however it never stops. She appears on the boards, turns to the cinema in more than forty films. It is found especially in Deadly Hike, The Ceremony by Claude Chabrol or the much celebrated Titanium by Julia Ducournau, Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. On television, we see her in Profiling, Joséphine guardian angel, Commissioner Moulin, Boulevard du Palaisor very recently in Murders in the Morvan and The secrets of the castle. But the role that made her famous is that of the headmistress Madame Vergneaux in SODA alongside Kev Adams. Dominique Frot is also the moving voice of Louise, in the sublime animated film by Jean-François Laguionie, Louisa in winter.

After two careers led at a distance from each other, the two actresses presented a common front in the movie Under the stars of Paris by Claus Drexel released in 2021.” Playing together represented an opportunity to look at each other without intention and without expectation.Dominique confessed to Paris Match. We were able to share a blank page as if we did not know each other. » « Above all, we had a lot of fun, admitted his eldest during this same interview. The fact of being totally made up and disguised echoed our childhood games. What to give them a taste of coming back? Only the future will tell…