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.
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 (Movies)
The Amateur
Character:Florist
Release Date:09/04/2025
One Life
Character:Betty Maxwell
Release Date:21/12/2023
Mars Express
Character:Beryl (voice)
Release Date:22/11/2023
Heidi's Alpine Dream
Character:Johanna Spyri (voice)
Release Date:30/10/2022
Everybody Loves Jeanne
Character:Claudia, mère de Jeanne
Release Date:07/09/2022
My Wonderful Wanda
Character:Elsa
Release Date:23/04/2021
My Little Sister
Character:Kathy
Release Date:03/09/2020
Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star
Character:Self
Release Date:25/04/2020
The Holy Family
Character:La Mère
Release Date:25/12/2019
The Staggering Girl
Character:Old Sofia
Release Date:17/05/2019
Sing Me Back Home
Character:Louise
Release Date:06/03/2019
The Witness
Character:Judge D'Amici
Release Date:17/01/2019
Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood
Character:Herself
Release Date:01/01/2019
Breath of Life
Character:Mathilde Chaykine
Release Date:03/12/2018
The Violet Hour
Character:Anushka
Release Date:12/10/2018
Unveiled
Character:Isabelle
Release Date:15/09/2018
The Escape
Character:Anna
Release Date:25/04/2018
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Character:Self
Release Date:28/10/2017
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains
Character:Irène Volkov
Release Date:14/03/2017
Miséricorde
Character:Gloria
Release Date:11/12/2016
After Love
Character:Christine
Release Date:08/06/2016
Amnesia
Character:Martha Sagell
Release Date:19/08/2015
Homo Faber (Trois femmes)
Character:Hanna
Release Date:24/01/2015
Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora
Character:Self
Release Date:05/07/2014
La vie à l'envers
Character:Nina
Release Date:06/06/2014
Miserere
Character:Laura Bernheim
Release Date:26/06/2013
In a Rush
Character:Mina
Release Date:19/05/2012
Page Eight
Character:Leona Chew
Release Date:28/08/2011
Jedermann Remixed
Character:Buhlschaft (archive footage)
Release Date:31/07/2011
La Résidence
Character:Léa
Release Date:24/05/2011
The Giants
Character:Rosa
Release Date:20/05/2011
My Best Enemy
Character:Hannah Kaufmann
Release Date:16/02/2011
Hereafter
Character:Dr. Rousseau
Release Date:22/10/2010
Bach rencontre Buxtehude
Character:Voix off
Release Date:03/03/2010
Sous un autre jour
Character:Iréne
Release Date:27/11/2009
Final Arrangements
Character:Nickye
Release Date:05/11/2008
Modus Operandi
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:05/03/2008
Dans l'ombre du maître
Character:Maria
Release Date:23/02/2008
Cortex
Character:Carole Rothmann
Release Date:30/01/2008
The Missing Granddaughter
Character:Eva
Release Date:13/09/2007
Chrysalis
Character:Professeur Brügen
Release Date:25/06/2007
UV
Character:Mother
Release Date:30/05/2007
Fragile
Character:Emma
Release Date:08/02/2006
Nightsongs
Character:Mutter
Release Date:11/02/2004
La Nourrice
Character:Mme Dumayet-Ponti
Release Date:01/01/2004
Par amour
Character:Nicole Doucet
Release Date:14/05/2003
Time of the Wolf
Character:Rebecca McGregor
Release Date:01/05/2002
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
Character:Jacqueline Bréaud
Release Date:24/12/2001
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Character:Self
Release Date:28/08/2001
From Behind
Character:Christina
Release Date:28/04/1999
The School of Flesh
Character:Madame Thorpe
Release Date:18/11/1998
Women
Character:Barbara
Release Date:17/10/1997
K
Character:Nora Winter
Release Date:27/08/1997
Nuits blanches
Character:Julia
Release Date:12/02/1997
Pereira Declares
Character:Mrs. Delgado
Release Date:06/04/1995
Tödliches Geld
Character:Beatrice Belmont
Release Date:01/01/1995
Mon amie Max
Character:Catherine Mercier
Release Date:01/11/1994
Liberate mio figlio
Character:Elena
Release Date:06/02/1993
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Character:Jeanne d'arc
Release Date:01/01/1993
Im Kreis der Iris
Character:Marikka
Release Date:01/01/1993
Turbulences
Character:Hélène
Release Date:13/11/1992
À deux pas du paradis
Character:Eva Grundberg
Release Date:19/04/1992
Lapse of Memory
Character:Linda Farmer (Marie Carson)
Release Date:02/06/1991
Seven Minutes
Character:Frau Wagner
Release Date:18/10/1989
La Ruelle au clair de lune
Character:Nelly (Helma Schleyer)
Release Date:10/11/1988
Una vittoria (TV)
Character:Julie
Release Date:07/02/1988
Dark Eyes
Character:Tina, Romano's Mistress
Release Date:01/02/1987
The Hospice
Character:Cecile
Release Date:01/01/1987
Die Frau des Reporters
Character:Esther
Release Date:23/03/1986
Joan Lui
Character:Judy Johnson
Release Date:25/12/1985
Red Kiss
Character:Bronka
Release Date:27/11/1985
Femmes de personne
Character:Cecile
Release Date:14/03/1984
Der Platzanweiser
Character:
Release Date:18/06/1983
Jedermann
Character:Buhlschaft
Release Date:01/01/1983
The Amateur
Character:Elisabeth
Release Date:11/12/1981
The Formula
Character:Lisa
Release Date:19/12/1980
Fedora
Character:Fedora
Release Date:29/06/1978
Bobby Deerfield
Character:Lillian
Release Date:29/09/1977
Black Sunday
Character:Dahlia
Release Date:01/04/1977
Marathon Man
Character:Elsa Opel
Release Date:08/10/1976
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Character:Self
Release Date:06/10/1976
The Hornet's Nest
Character:Melba
Release Date:10/03/1976
Down the Ancient Stairs
Character:Bianca
Release Date:17/10/1975
L'aigle à deux têtes
Character:La reine
Release Date:24/07/1975
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Character:Angela Delpierre
Release Date:20/11/1974
And Now My Love
Character:Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother
Release Date:15/05/1974
Fall of a Body
Character:Marthe Renon
Release Date:28/09/1973
The Right of the Maddest
Character:L'auto-stoppeuse
Release Date:27/03/1973
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
Character:Marlène Réval
Release Date:22/02/1973
A Loser
Character:Catherine
Release Date:18/04/1972
The Old Maid
Character:Vicka
Release Date:05/01/1972
P'pa je serai serrurier
Character:(voice)
Release Date:01/01/1972
Tango
Character:Aline
Release Date:07/07/1970
Give Her the Moon
Character:Marie Panneton
Release Date:25/02/1970
The Devil by the Tail
Character:Amélie, baronne de Coustines
Release Date:07/02/1969
La veuve rusée
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1969
Pfeiffer
Character:Marthe
Release Date:02/04/1967
Wilder Reiter GmbH
Character:Nonne
Release Date:12/01/1967
Funeral in Berlin
Character:Brigit (uncredited)
Release Date:22/12/1966
Corinne und der Seebär
Character:Corinne
Release Date:18/11/1966
Kein Freibrief für Mord
Character:Christine Foster
Release Date:09/03/1966
Und nicht mehr Jessica
Character:Jessica Lovell
Release Date:10/08/1965
Mariana Pineda
Character:
Release Date:03/04/1965
Antiquitäten
Character:Junge Frau
Release Date:01/03/1965
Mein oder Dein
Character:Jean
Release Date:13/06/1964
Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt
Character:Der Friede
Release Date:03/06/1964
Television Appearances
Beau geste
Character:Self
Marie Antoinette
Character:The Empress
The Romanoffs
Character:Anushka
Le Sanglot des anges
Character:Eléonore
La prophétie d'Avignon
Character:Dona Flores
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
Character:Self
Belle Époque
Character:Antoinette
Young Catherine
Character:Johanna
The Nightmare Years
Character:Tess Shirer
Wagner
Character:Mathilde Wesendonck
The Charterhouse of Parma
Character:Gina Sanseverina
Champs-Elysées
Character:Self
Spécial cinéma
Character:Self
Midi trente
Character:Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Character:Self
La Demoiselle d'Avignon
Character:Koba Lye-Lye (Princesse de Kurlande)
Arsène Lupin
Character:Natacha
Samedi soir
Character:Self
The Oscars
Character:Self
Bambi
Character:Self
Images
