Marthe Keller
Acting
Born: January 28, 1945 (age 81) · Basel, Switzerland
Highest Rated
Biography
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
Hereafter
2010
The Amateur
2025
Marathon Man
1976
One Life
2023
Mars Express
2023
Page Eight
2011
Black Sunday
1977
Funeral in Berlin
1966
Everybody Loves Jeanne
2022
Fedora
1978
After Love
2016
Bobby Deerfield
1977
Photos (4)
Movies (77)
The Amateur
Florist
One Life
Betty Maxwell
Hereafter
Dr. Rousseau
Marathon Man
Elsa Opel
Page Eight
Leona Chew
Mars Express
Beryl (voice)
From Behind
Christina
Homo Faber (Trois femmes)
Hanna
Fedora
Fedora
Black Sunday
Dahlia
Funeral in Berlin
Brigit (uncredited)
The Amateur
Elisabeth
The Formula
Lisa
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
Jacqueline Bréaud
Bobby Deerfield
Lillian
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
After Love
Christine
UV
Mother
Unveiled
Isabelle
The Missing Granddaughter
Eva
Dark Eyes
Tina
Heidi's Alpine Dream
Johanna Spyri (voice)
The Staggering Girl
Old Sofia
The Escape
Anna
Chrysalis
Professeur Brügen
Amnesia
Martha Sagell
Red Kiss
Bronka
Everybody Loves Jeanne
Claudia, mère de Jeanne
Seven Minutes
Frau Wagner
The Hospice
Cecile
The Devil by the Tail
Amélie, baronne de Coustines
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Angela Delpierre
Give Her the Moon
Marie Panneton
Fragile
Emma
Cortex
Carole Rothmann
Miserere
Laura Bernheim
In a Rush
Mina
My Little Sister
Kathy
The Old Maid
Vicka
Time of the Wolf
Rebecca McGregor
The Right of the Maddest
L'auto-stoppeuse
Pereira Declares
Mrs. Delgado
The School of Flesh
Madame Thorpe
Down the Ancient Stairs
Bianca
My Wonderful Wanda
Elsa
The Giants
Rosa
And Now My Love
Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother
Mon amie Max
Catherine Mercier
Lapse of Memory
Linda Farmer (Marie Carson)
My Best Enemy
Hannah Kaufmann
Nuits blanches
Julia
Joan Lui
Judy Johnson
Breath of Life
Mathilde Chaykine
Final Arrangements
Nickye
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains
Irène Volkov
The Holy Family
La Mère
Liberate mio figlio
Elena
Women
Barbara
La Nourrice
Mme Dumayet-Ponti
La Ruelle au clair de lune
Nelly (Helma Schleyer)
Femmes de personne
Cecile
Jedermann Remixed
Buhlschaft (archive footage)
Miséricorde
Gloria
Die Frau des Reporters
Esther
K
Nora Winter
La vie à l'envers
Nina
A Loser
Catherine
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
Marlène Réval
The Witness
Judge D'Amici
Modus Operandi
Narrator (voice)
Sous un autre jour
Iréne
Fall of a Body
Marthe Renon
Sing Me Back Home
Louise
Wilder Reiter GmbH
Nonne
The Hornet's Nest
Melba
Nightsongs
Mutter
Bach rencontre Buxtehude
Voix off
TV Shows (11)
Marie Antoinette
The Empress · 8 eps
The Romanoffs
Anushka · 1 eps
Arsène Lupin
Natacha · 26 eps
La prophétie d'Avignon
Dona Flores · 8 eps
The Deal
Maria Cassini · 6 eps
La Demoiselle d'Avignon
Koba Lye-Lye (Princesse de Kurlande) · 6 eps
Wagner
Mathilde Wesendonck · 10 eps
The Nightmare Years
Tess Shirer · 4 eps
Young Catherine
Johanna · 2 eps
The Charterhouse of Parma
Gina Sanseverina · 6 eps
Le Sanglot des anges
Eléonore · 4 eps
Self / Appearances (12)
Spécial cinéma
Self · 5 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 1 eps
Bambi
Self · 1 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · 1 eps
Midi trente
Self · 1 eps
Beau geste
Self · 1 eps
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Self
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Self
Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star
Self
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Self
Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood
Herself
