1945-01-28 Basel, Switzerland
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.
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The Amateur | Florist | 2025-04-09 |
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One Life | Betty Maxwell | 2023-12-21 |
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Mars Express | Beryl (voice) | 2023-11-22 |
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Tout le monde aime Jeanne | Claudia, mère de Jeanne | 2022-09-07 |
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Heidis Alptraum | Johanna Spyri (voice) | 2022-10-30 |
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Wanda, mein Wunder | Elsa | 2021-04-23 |
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Schwesterlein | Kathy | 2020-09-03 |
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Al Pacino - Star wider Willen | Self | 2020-04-25 |
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The Staggering Girl | Old Sofia | 2019-05-17 |
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The Witness | Judge D'Amici | 2019-01-17 |
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On ment toujours à ceux qu'on aime | Louise | 2019-03-06 |
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Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood | Herself | 2019-01-01 |
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La Sainte Famille | La Mère | 2019-12-25 |
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Dévoilées | Isabelle | 2018-09-15 |
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The Violet Hour | Anushka | 2018-10-12 |
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The Escape | Anna | 2018-04-25 |
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L'Ordre des Médecins | Mathilde Chaykine | 2018-12-03 |
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Les Sources assassines | Irène Volkov | 2017-03-14 |
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Du sollst nicht langweilen: Billy Wilder | Self | 2017-10-28 |
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L'économie du couple | Christine | 2016-06-08 |
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Miséricorde | Gloria | 2016-12-11 |
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Homo Faber (Trois femmes) | Hanna | 2015-01-24 |
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Amnesia | Martha Sagell | 2015-08-19 |
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La vie à l'envers | Nina | 2014-06-06 |
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Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora | Self | 2014-07-05 |
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La Marque des anges - Miserere | Laura Bernheim | 2013-06-26 |
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Au Galop | Mina | 2012-05-19 |
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Page Eight | Leona Chew | 2011-08-28 |
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Mein bester Feind | Hannah Kaufmann | 2011-02-16 |
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Les géants | Rosa | 2011-05-20 |
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Jedermann Remixed | Buhlschaft (archive footage) | 2011-07-31 |
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La Résidence | Léa | 2011-05-24 |
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Hereafter | Dr. Rousseau | 2010-10-22 |
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Bach rencontre Buxtehude | Voix off | 2010-03-03 |
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Sous un autre jour | Iréne | 2009-11-27 |
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Bouquet final | Nickye | 2008-11-05 |
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Cortex | Carole Rothmann | 2008-01-30 |
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Dans l'ombre du maître | Maria | 2008-02-23 |
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Modus Operandi | Narrator (voice) | 2008-03-05 |
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UV | Mother | 2007-05-30 |
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Chrysalis | Professeur Brügen | 2007-06-25 |
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Le Lien | Eva | 2007-09-13 |
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Fragile | Emma | 2006-02-08 |
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La Nourrice | Mme Dumayet-Ponti | 2004-01-01 |
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Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder | Mutter | 2004-02-11 |
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Par amour | Nicole Doucet | 2003-05-14 |
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Time of the Wolf | Rebecca McGregor | 2002-05-01 |
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Tout va bien c'est Noël! | Jacqueline Bréaud | 2001-12-24 |
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Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' | Self | 2001-08-28 |
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Le derrière | Christina | 1999-04-28 |
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L'École de la chair | Madame Thorpe | 1998-11-18 |
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K | Nora Winter | 1997-08-27 |
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Elles | Barbara | 1997-10-17 |
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Nuits blanches | Julia | 1997-02-12 |
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Tödliches Geld | Beatrice Belmont | 1995-01-01 |
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Sostiene Pereira | Mrs. Delgado | 1995-04-06 |
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Mon amie Max | Catherine Mercier | 1994-11-01 |
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Liberate mio figlio | Elena | 1993-02-06 |
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Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher | Jeanne d'arc | 1993-01-01 |
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Im Kreis der Iris | Marikka | 1993-01-01 |
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À deux pas du paradis | Eva Grundberg | 1992-04-19 |
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Turbulences | Hélène | 1992-11-13 |
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Lapse of Memory | Linda Farmer (Marie Carson) | 1991-06-02 |
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Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland | Frau Wagner | 1989-10-18 |
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Una vittoria (TV) | Julie | 1988-02-07 |
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La Ruelle au clair de lune | Nelly (Helma Schleyer) | 1988-11-10 |
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Очи черные | Tina, Romano's Mistress | 1987-02-01 |
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The Hospice | Cecile | 1987-01-01 |
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Die Frau des Reporters | Esther | 1986-03-23 |
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Joan Lui - ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì | Judy Johnson | 1985-12-25 |
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Rouge baiser | Bronka | 1985-11-27 |
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Femmes de personne | Cecile | 1984-03-14 |
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Der Platzanweiser | 1983-06-18 | |
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Jedermann | Buhlschaft | 1983-01-01 |
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The Amateur | Elisabeth | 1981-12-11 |
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The Formula | Lisa | 1980-12-19 |
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Fedora | Fedora | 1978-06-29 |
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Black Sunday | Dahlia | 1977-04-01 |
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Bobby Deerfield | Lillian | 1977-09-29 |
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The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People | Self | 1976-10-06 |
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Le Guêpier | Melba | 1976-03-10 |
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Marathon Man | Elsa Opel | 1976-10-08 |
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L'aigle à deux têtes | La reine | 1975-07-24 |
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Per le antiche scale | Bianca | 1975-10-17 |
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Toute une vie | Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother | 1974-05-15 |
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Die Antwort kennt nur der Wind | Angela Delpierre | 1974-11-20 |
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La Raison du plus fou | L'auto-stoppeuse | 1973-03-27 |
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La Chute d'un corps | Marthe Renon | 1973-09-28 |
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Elle court, elle court la banlieue | Marlène Réval | 1973-02-22 |
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La Vieille Fille | Vicka | 1972-01-05 |
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P'pa je serai serrurier | (voice) | 1972-01-01 |
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Un cave | Catherine | 1972-04-18 |
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Les Caprices de Marie | Marie Panneton | 1970-02-25 |
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Tango | Aline | 1970-07-07 |
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La veuve rusée | 1969-01-01 | |
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Le diable par la queue | Amélie, baronne de Coustines | 1969-02-07 |
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Pfeiffer | Marthe | 1967-04-02 |
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Wilder Reiter GmbH | Nonne | 1967-01-12 |
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Kein Freibrief für Mord | Christine Foster | 1966-03-09 |
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Corinne und der Seebär | Corinne | 1966-11-18 |
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Funeral in Berlin | Brigit (uncredited) | 1966-12-22 |
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Und nicht mehr Jessica | Jessica Lovell | 1965-08-10 |
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Mariana Pineda | 1965-04-03 | |
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Antiquitäten | Junge Frau | 1965-03-01 |
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Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt | Der Friede | 1964-06-03 |
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Mein oder Dein | Jean | 1964-06-13 |
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