Marthe Keller
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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Known for
The Amateur
Florist
Bambi
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Midi trente
Self
Bobby Deerfield
Lillian
The Oscars
Self
The Escape
Anna
One Life
Betty Maxwell
Black Sunday
Dahlia
My Little Sister
Kathy
Marie Antoinette
The Empress
Pereira Declares
Mrs. Delgado
Arsène Lupin
Natacha
Miserere
Laura Bernheim
Breath of Life
Mathilde Chaykine
Amnesia
Martha Sagell
Down the Ancient Stairs
Bianca
The Giants
Rosa
Mon amie Max
Catherine Mercier
The Formula
Lisa
The Right of the Maddest
L'auto-stoppeuse
And Now My Love
Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother
Joan Lui
Judy Johnson
Funeral in Berlin
Brigit (uncredited)
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Angela Delpierre
Unveiled
Isabelle
Cortex
Carole Rothmann
Miséricorde
Gloria
The Staggering Girl
Old Sofia
The Witness
Judge D'Amici
Women
Barbara
Everybody Loves Jeanne
Claudia, mère de Jeanne
Jedermann
Buhlschaft
La vie à l'envers
Nina
My Best Enemy
Hannah Kaufmann
The Romanoffs
Anushka
Mars Express
Beryl (voice)
Liberate mio figlio
Elena
Marathon Man
Elsa Opel
Final Arrangements
Nickye
Time of the Wolf
Rebecca McGregor
The Amateur
Elisabeth
Heidi's Alpine Dream
Johanna Spyri (voice)
My Wonderful Wanda
Elsa
The Holy Family
La Mère
Fedora
Fedora
K
Nora Winter
The School of Flesh
Madame Thorpe
La Ruelle au clair de lune
Nelly (Helma Schleyer)
Jedermann Remixed
Buhlschaft (archive footage)
Dark Eyes
Tina, Romano's Mistress
Par amour
Nicole Doucet
Kein Freibrief für Mord
Christine Foster
Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora
Self
Hereafter
Dr. Rousseau
The Hornet's Nest
Melba
Wilder Reiter GmbH
Nonne
Page Eight
Leona Chew
Lapse of Memory
Linda Farmer (Marie Carson)
Nightsongs
Mutter
Antiquitäten
Junge Frau
La Nourrice
Mme Dumayet-Ponti
UV
Mother
Red Kiss
Bronka
Mariana Pineda
Sous un autre jour
Iréne
Tödliches Geld
Beatrice Belmont
À deux pas du paradis
Eva Grundberg
The Charterhouse of Parma
Gina Sanseverina
Una vittoria (TV)
Julie
Wagner
Mathilde Wesendonck
The Old Maid
Vicka
Mein oder Dein
Jean
In a Rush
Mina
The Devil by the Tail
Amélie, baronne de Coustines
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Self
Young Catherine
Johanna
After Love
Christine
Fall of a Body
Marthe Renon
Belle Époque
Antoinette
The Missing Granddaughter
Eva
Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt
Der Friede
Und nicht mehr Jessica
Jessica Lovell
From Behind
Christina
La prophétie d'Avignon
Dona Flores
Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star
Self
Dans l'ombre du maître
Maria
La Demoiselle d'Avignon
Koba Lye-Lye (Princesse de Kurlande)
The Hospice
Cecile
Chrysalis
Professeur Brügen
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains
Irène Volkov
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
Marlène Réval
Give Her the Moon
Marie Panneton
Le Sanglot des anges
Eléonore
The Nightmare Years
Tess Shirer
Fragile
Emma
Nuits blanches
Julia
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
Jacqueline Bréaud
La Résidence
Léa
Seven Minutes
Frau Wagner
Homo Faber (Trois femmes)
Hanna
Tango
Aline
Pfeiffer
Marthe
Femmes de personne
Cecile
Die Frau des Reporters
Esther
The Violet Hour
Anushka
L'aigle à deux têtes
La reine
Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood
Herself
Der Platzanweiser
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
A Loser
Catherine
Turbulences
Hélène
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Self
Bach rencontre Buxtehude
Voix off
Modus Operandi
Narrator (voice)
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Self
Corinne und der Seebär
Corinne
P'pa je serai serrurier
(voice)
Im Kreis der Iris
Marikka
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Jeanne d'arc
Sing Me Back Home
Louise
La veuve rusée
Champs-Elysées
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self
Samedi soir
Self
Beau geste
Self
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
Self