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