Marthe Keller
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
Elsa
Marathon Man
Angela Delpierre
Die Antwort kennt nur der Wind
Elisabeth
The Amateur
Lisa
The Formula
Professeur Brügen
Chrysalis
Johanna Spyri (voice)
Heidis Alptraum
Herself
Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood
Lillian
Bobby Deerfield
Nickye
Bouquet final
Tina, Romano's Mistress
Очи черные
Carole Rothmann
Cortex
Mrs. Delgado
Sostiene Pereira
Claudia, mère de Jeanne
Tout le monde aime Jeanne
Christina
Le derrière
Rebecca McGregor
Time of the Wolf
Judy Johnson
Joan Lui - ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì
Dahlia
Black Sunday
Mother
UV
Beryl (voice)
Mars Express
Leona Chew
Page Eight
Fedora
Fedora
Marthe Renon
La Chute d'un corps
Barbara
Elles
Hannah Kaufmann
Mein bester Feind
Rosa
Les géants
Madame Thorpe
L'École de la chair
Amélie, baronne de Coustines
Le diable par la queue
Bianca
Per le antiche scale
Vicka
La Vieille Fille
Mutter
Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder
Mme Dumayet-Ponti
La Nourrice
Mina
Au Galop
Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother
Toute une vie
Laura Bernheim
La Marque des anges - Miserere
Bronka
Rouge baiser
Marlène Réval
Elle court, elle court la banlieue
Eva
Le Lien
Catherine Mercier
Mon amie Max
Betty Maxwell
One Life
Frau Wagner
Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland
Nonne
Wilder Reiter GmbH
Nora Winter
K
Anushka
The Violet Hour
Voix off
Bach rencontre Buxtehude
Jessica Lovell
Und nicht mehr Jessica
Léa
La Résidence
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
Cecile
Femmes de personne
Marie Panneton
Les Caprices de Marie
Melba
Le Guêpier
Der Friede
Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt
Beatrice Belmont
Tödliches Geld
Buhlschaft
Jedermann
Martha Sagell
Amnesia
Aline
Tango
Christine
L'économie du couple
Marthe
Pfeiffer
Jean
Mein oder Dein
Catherine
Un cave
Nina
La vie à l'envers
Nicole Doucet
Par amour
Irène Volkov
Les Sources assassines
Hanna
Homo Faber (Trois femmes)
Dr. Rousseau
Hereafter
Iréne
Sous un autre jour
Maria
Dans l'ombre du maître
Emma
Fragile
Julia
Nuits blanches
Jeanne d'arc
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Elena
Liberate mio figlio
Marikka
Im Kreis der Iris
Hélène
Turbulences
Eva Grundberg
À deux pas du paradis
Linda Farmer (Marie Carson)
Lapse of Memory
Nelly (Helma Schleyer)
La Ruelle au clair de lune
Julie
Una vittoria (TV)
Cecile
The Hospice
Esther
Die Frau des Reporters
Der Platzanweiser
La reine
L'aigle à deux têtes
La veuve rusée
Brigit (uncredited)
Funeral in Berlin
Corinne
Corinne und der Seebär
Christine Foster
Kein Freibrief für Mord
Mariana Pineda
Junge Frau
Antiquitäten
Jacqueline Bréaud
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
(voice)
P'pa je serai serrurier
Anna
The Escape
Self
Du sollst nicht langweilen: Billy Wilder
Judge D'Amici
The Witness
Mathilde Chaykine
L'ordre des médecins
Buhlschaft (archive footage)
Jedermann Remixed
Herself
Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora
Old Sofia
The Staggering Girl
On ment toujours à ceux qu'on aime
Isabelle
Dévoilées
La Mère
La Sainte Famille
Self
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Self
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Narrator (voice)
Modus Operandi
Kathy
Schwesterlein
Self
Al Pacino - Star wider Willen
L'auto-stoppeuse
La Raison du plus fou
Gloria
Miséricorde
Elsa
Wanda, mein Wunder
Florist
The Amateur
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
107
Gender
Female
Birthday
1945-01-28
Place of Birth
Basel, Switzerland
Also Known As
Марта Келлер