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.
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Filmography
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Movies 106
TV Shows 19
self 14
Voice 1
Narrator 1
Mars Express (2023)
One Life (2023)
Marie Antoinette (2022)
Heidi's Alpine Dream (2022)
Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022)
Le lien (2022)
My Wonderful Wanda (2021)
My Little Sister (2020)
Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star (2020)
The Holy Family (2019)
The Staggering Girl (2019)
Sing Me Back Home (2019)
The Witness (2019)
Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood (2019)
Breath of Life (2018)
The Violet Hour (2018)
The Romanoffs (2018)
Unveiled (2018)
The Escape (2018)
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder (2017)
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains (2017)
Miséricorde (2016)
After Love (2016)
Amnesia (2015)
Homo Faber (Trois femmes) (2015)
Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora (2014)
La vie à l'envers (2014)
Miserere (2013)
In a Rush (2012)
Page Eight (2011)
Jedermann Remixed (2011)
La Résidence (2011)
The Giants (2011)
My Best Enemy (2011)
Hereafter (2010)
Bach rencontre Buxtehude (2010)
In einem anderen Licht (2009)
Final Arrangements (2008)
Le Sanglot des anges (2008)
Modus Operandi (2008)
Dans l'ombre du maître (2008)
Cortex (2008)
The Missing Granddaughter (2007)
La prophétie d'Avignon (2007)
Chrysalis (2007)
UV (2007)
Fragile (2006)
Nightsongs (2004)
La nourrice (2004)
Par amour (2003)
Time of the Wolf (2002)
Tout va bien c'est Noël! (2001)
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' (2001)
From Behind (1999)
The School of Flesh (1998)
Women (1997)
K (1997)
Nuits blanches (1997)
Pereira Declares (1995)
Belle Époque (1995)
Tödliches Geld (1995)
Mon amie Max (1994)
Libeate mio figlio (1993)
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (1993)
Im Kreis der Iris (1993)
Turbulences (1992)
À deux pas du paradis (1992)
Lapse of Memory (1991)
Young Catherine (1991)
The Nightmare Years (1989)
Seven Minutes (1989)
La Ruelle au clair de lune (1988)
Una vittoria (TV) (1988)
Sueurs froides (1988)
Dark Eyes (1987)
The Hospice (1987)
Die Frau des Reporters (1986)
Joan Lui (1985)
Red Kiss (1985)
Femmes de personne (1984)
Wagner (1983)
Der Platzanweiser (1983)
Jedermann (1983)
The Charterhouse of Parma (1982)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
The Amateur (1981)
The Formula (1980)
Fedora (1978)
Bobby Deerfield (1977)
Black Sunday (1977)
Marathon Man (1976)
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People (1976)
The Hornet's Nest (1976)
Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
L'aigle à deux têtes (1975)
Only the Wind Knows the Answer (1974)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
And Now My Love (1974)
Fall of a Body (1973)
The Right of the Maddest (1973)
The Suburbs Are Everywhere (1973)
A Loser (1972)
Midi trente (1972)
Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
La Demoiselle d'Avignon (1972)
The Old Maid (1972)
P'pa je serai serrurier (1972)
Arsène Lupin (1971)
Samedi soir (1971)
Give Her the Moon (1970)
The Devil by the Tail (1969)
La veuve rusée (1969)
Pfeiffer (1967)
Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967)
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Corinne und der Seebär (1966)
Kein Freibrief für Mord (1966)
Und nicht mehr Jessica (1965)
Mariana Pineda (1965)
Antiquitäten (1965)
Mein oder Dein (1964)
Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt (1964)
The Oscars (1953)
Bambi Awards (1948)
Midnight Men - A John Schlesinger & Michael Childers Story
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GenderFemale
Birthday1945-01-28 (79 years old)
Birth PlaceBasel, Switzerland
CitizenshipsSwitzerland
AwardsOfficer of Arts and Letters, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Swiss Film Award
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