1945-01-28 ( 80 years old ) in 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.
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The Holy Family
2019-12-25
The Staggering Girl
2019-05-17
Sing Me Back Home
2019-03-06
The Witness
2019-01-17
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2019-01-01
Breath of Life
2018-12-03
The Violet Hour
2018-10-12
Unveiled
2018-09-15
The Escape
2018-04-25
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017-10-28
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains
2017-03-14
Miséricorde
2016-12-11
After Love
2016-06-08
Amnesia
2015-08-19
Homo Faber (Trois femmes)
2015-01-24
La vie à l'envers
2014-06-06
Miserere
2013-06-26
In a Rush
2012-05-19
Page Eight
2011-08-28
Jedermann Remixed
2011-07-31
La Résidence
2011-05-24
The Giants
2011-05-20
My Best Enemy
2011-02-16
Hereafter
2010-10-22
Bach rencontre Buxtehude
2010-03-03
Sous un autre jour
2009-11-27
Final Arrangements
2008-11-05
Modus Operandi
2008-03-05
Dans l'ombre du maître
2008-02-23
Cortex
2008-01-30
The Missing Granddaughter
2007-09-13
Chrysalis
2007-06-25
UV
2007-05-30
Fragile
2006-02-08
Nightsongs
2004-02-11
La nourrice
2004-01-01
Par amour
2003-05-14
Time of the Wolf
2002-05-01
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
2001-12-24
From Behind
1999-04-28
The School of Flesh
1998-11-18
Women
1997-10-17
K
1997-08-27
Nuits blanches
1997-02-12
Pereira Declares
1995-04-06
Tödliches Geld
1995-01-01
Mon amie Max
1994-11-01
Liberate mio figlio
1993-02-06
Im Kreis der Iris
1993-01-01
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993-01-01
Turbulences
1992-11-13
À deux pas du paradis
1992-04-19
Lapse of Memory
1991-06-02
Seven Minutes
1989-10-18
La Ruelle au clair de lune
1988-11-10
Una vittoria (TV)
1988-02-07
Dark Eyes
1987-02-01
The Hospice
1987-01-01
Die Frau des Reporters
1986-03-23
Joan Lui
1985-12-25
Red Kiss
1985-11-27
Femmes de personne
1984-03-14
Der Platzanweiser
1983-06-18
Jedermann
1983-01-01
The Amateur
1981-12-11
The Formula
1980-12-19
Fedora
1978-06-29
Bobby Deerfield
1977-09-29
Black Sunday
1977-04-01
Marathon Man
1976-10-08
The Hornet's Nest
1976-03-10
Down the Ancient Stairs
1975-10-17
L'aigle à deux têtes
1975-07-24
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
1974-11-20
And Now My Love
1974-05-15
Fall of a Body
1973-09-28
The Right of the Maddest
1973-03-27
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
1973-02-22
A Loser
1972-04-18
The Old Maid
1972-01-05
P'pa je serai serrurier
1972-01-01
Tango
1970-07-07
Give Her the Moon
1970-02-25
The Devil by the Tail
1969-02-07
La veuve rusée
1969-01-01
Pfeiffer
1967-04-02
Wilder Reiter GmbH
1967-01-12
Funeral in Berlin
1966-12-22
Corinne und der Seebär
1966-11-18
Kein Freibrief für Mord
1966-03-09
Und nicht mehr Jessica
1965-08-10
Mariana Pineda
1965-04-03
Antiquitäten
1965-03-01
Mein oder Dein
1964-06-13
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1964-06-03
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