Marthe Keller
Known for Acting · 129 credits
- Born
- 1945-01-28 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Basel, Switzerland
- Also known as
- Марта Келлер
Biography
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.
Known For
TV Shows (21)
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Bambi
1948
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Midi trente
1972
as Self
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
Marie Antoinette
2022
as The Empress
The Romanoffs
2018
as Anushka
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
as Self
Beau geste
2023
as Self
Arsène Lupin
1971
as Natacha
The Deal
2025
as Maria Cassini
The Charterhouse of Parma
1982
as Gina Sanseverina
Wagner
1983
as Mathilde Wesendonck
Young Catherine
1991
as Johanna
Belle Époque
1995
as Antoinette
The Nightmare Years
1989
as Tess Shirer
La prophétie d'Avignon
2007
as Dona Flores
La Demoiselle d'Avignon
1972
as Koba Lye-Lye (Princesse de Kurlande)
Le Sanglot des anges
2008
as Eléonore
Movies (108)
The Amateur
2025
as Florist
Hereafter
2010
as Dr. Rousseau
One Life
2023
as Betty Maxwell
Marathon Man
1976
as Elsa Opel
Mars Express
2023
as Beryl (voice)
Funeral in Berlin
1966
as Brigit (uncredited)
Page Eight
2011
as Leona Chew
Black Sunday
1977
as Dahlia
Bobby Deerfield
1977
as Lillian
Fedora
1978
as Fedora
Amnesia
2015
as Martha Sagell
The School of Flesh
1998
as Madame Thorpe
Dark Eyes
1987
as Tina
After Love
2016
as Christine
Chrysalis
2007
as Professeur Brügen
The Formula
1980
as Lisa
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
The Giants
2011
as Rosa
My Best Enemy
2011
as Hannah Kaufmann
The Staggering Girl
2019
as Old Sofia
Pereira Declares
1995
as Mrs. Delgado
Time of the Wolf
2002
as Rebecca McGregor
The Amateur
1981
as Elisabeth
Miserere
2013
as Laura Bernheim
The Holy Family
2019
as La Mère
The Old Maid
1972
as Vicka
Joan Lui
1985
as Judy Johnson
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
1976
as Self
The Devil by the Tail
1969
as Amélie, baronne de Coustines
UV
2007
as Mother
Cortex
2008
as Carole Rothmann
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
1973
as Marlène Réval
The Escape
2018
as Anna
My Little Sister
2020
as Kathy
K
1997
as Nora Winter
Heidi's Alpine Dream
2022
as Johanna Spyri (voice)
Give Her the Moon
1970
as Marie Panneton
Jedermann Remixed
2011
as Buhlschaft (archive footage)
Everybody Loves Jeanne
2022
as Claudia, mère de Jeanne
Final Arrangements
2008
as Nickye
Down the Ancient Stairs
1975
as Bianca
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017
as Self
Lapse of Memory
1991
as Linda Farmer (Marie Carson)
A Loser
1972
as Catherine
Jedermann
1983
as Buhlschaft
Seven Minutes
1989
as Frau Wagner
The Right of the Maddest
1973
as L'auto-stoppeuse
Breath of Life
2018
as Mathilde Chaykine
Red Kiss
1985
as Bronka
Una vittoria (TV)
1988
as Julie
The Witness
2019
as Judge D'Amici
The Hospice
1987
as Cecile
My Wonderful Wanda
2021
as Elsa
Unveiled
2018
as Isabelle
Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star
2020
as Self
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
2001
as Self
Women
1997
as Barbara
In a Rush
2012
as Mina
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains
2017
as Irène Volkov
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
1974
as Angela Delpierre
Femmes de personne
1984
as Cecile
Sous un autre jour
2009
as Iréne
La vie à l'envers
2014
as Nina
La Nourrice
2004
as Mme Dumayet-Ponti
Miséricorde
2016
as Gloria
Liberate mio figlio
1993
as Elena
Tödliches Geld
1995
as Beatrice Belmont
And Now My Love
1974
as Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother
Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora
2014
as Self
From Behind
1999
as Christina
Fall of a Body
1973
as Marthe Renon
Nightsongs
2004
as Mutter
The Violet Hour
2018
as Anushka
Mon amie Max
1994
as Catherine Mercier
Fragile
2006
as Emma
Sing Me Back Home
2019
as Louise
The Hornet's Nest
1976
as Melba
Die Frau des Reporters
1986
as Esther
Homo Faber (Trois femmes)
2015
as Hanna
The Missing Granddaughter
2007
as Eva
Wilder Reiter GmbH
1967
as Nonne
Modus Operandi
2008
as Narrator (voice)
L'aigle à deux têtes
1975
as La reine
Mein oder Dein
1964
as Jean
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
2001
as Jacqueline Bréaud
La Ruelle au clair de lune
1988
as Nelly (Helma Schleyer)
Kein Freibrief für Mord
1966
as Christine Foster
Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt
1964
as Der Friede
Pfeiffer
1967
as Marthe
Tango
1970
as Aline
Und nicht mehr Jessica
1965
as Jessica Lovell
Nuits blanches
1997
as Julia
Par amour
2003
as Nicole Doucet
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
Bach rencontre Buxtehude
2010
as Voix off
Turbulences
1992
as Hélène
Mariana Pineda
1965
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993
as Jeanne d'arc
Im Kreis der Iris
1993
as Marikka
Dans l'ombre du maître
2008
as Maria
Corinne und der Seebär
1966
as Corinne
À deux pas du paradis
1992
as Eva Grundberg
Antiquitäten
1965
as Junge Frau
Der Platzanweiser
1983
La veuve rusée
1969
as Rosaura
P'pa je serai serrurier
1972
as (voice)
La Résidence
2011
as Léa
Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood
2019
as Herself
About 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).… With 129 credits spanning from 1948 to 2025, Marthe Keller has appeared in 108 films and 21 TV shows.
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Most Popular Marthe Keller Movies
- The Amateur (2025) — as Florist
- Hereafter (2010) — as Dr. Rousseau
- One Life (2023) — as Betty Maxwell
- Marathon Man (1976) — as Elsa Opel
- Mars Express (2023) — as Beryl (voice)
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