Marthe Keller
Known for Acting · 130 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
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Midi trente
1972
as Self
G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
as Self
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
The Romanoffs
2018
as Anushka
Beau geste
2023
as Self
Marie Antoinette
2022
as The Empress
Arsène Lupin
1971
as Natacha
The Deal
2025
as Maria Cassini
Wagner
1983
as Mathilde Wesendonck
The Charterhouse of Parma
1982
as Gina Sanseverina
Young Catherine
1991
as Johanna
Belle Époque
1995
as Antoinette
La Demoiselle d'Avignon
1972
as Koba Lye-Lye (Princesse de Kurlande)
La prophétie d'Avignon
2007
as Dona Flores
The Nightmare Years
1989
as Tess Shirer
Le Sanglot des anges
2008
as Eléonore
Movies (109)
The Amateur
2025
as Florist
Marathon Man
1976
as Elsa Opel
Hereafter
2010
as Dr. Rousseau
One Life
2023
as Betty Maxwell
Black Sunday
1977
as Dahlia
Page Eight
2011
as Leona Chew
Mars Express
2023
as Beryl (voice)
Und nicht mehr Jessica
1965
as Jessica Lovell
Pereira Declares
1995
as Mrs. Delgado
Bobby Deerfield
1977
as Lillian
The Giants
2011
as Rosa
Fedora
1978
as Fedora
Funeral in Berlin
1966
as Brigit (uncredited)
Down the Ancient Stairs
1975
as Bianca
Dark Eyes
1987
as Tina
Women
1997
as Barbara
Una vittoria (TV)
1988
as Julie
The Amateur
1981
as Elisabeth
The Staggering Girl
2019
as Old Sofia
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
The School of Flesh
1998
as Madame Thorpe
Tout va bien c'est Noël!
2001
as Jacqueline Bréaud
Chrysalis
2007
as Professeur Brügen
Mein oder Dein
1964
as Jean
Amnesia
2015
as Martha Sagell
After Love
2016
as Christine
My Little Sister
2020
as Kathy
Joan Lui
1985
as Judy Johnson
My Wonderful Wanda
2021
as Elsa
The Devil by the Tail
1969
as Amélie, baronne de Coustines
The Formula
1980
as Lisa
Jedermann
1983
as Buhlschaft
UV
2007
as Mother
Final Arrangements
2008
as Nickye
K
1997
as Nora Winter
The Old Maid
1972
as Vicka
The Escape
2018
as Anna
P'pa je serai serrurier
1972
as (voice)
Miserere
2013
as Laura Bernheim
Cortex
2008
as Carole Rothmann
A Loser
1972
as Catherine
The Right of the Maddest
1973
as L'auto-stoppeuse
My Best Enemy
2011
as Hannah Kaufmann
Give Her the Moon
1970
as Marie Panneton
Time of the Wolf
2002
as Rebecca McGregor
The Hornet's Nest
1976
as Melba
The Witness
2019
as Judge D'Amici
And Now My Love
1974
as Sarah / Her Mother / Her Grandmother
Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star
2020
as Self
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
1976
as Self
La vie à l'envers
2014
as Nina
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
1974
as Angela Delpierre
The Hospice
1987
as Cecile
The Holy Family
2019
as La Mère
Red Kiss
1985
as Bronka
Heidi's Alpine Dream
2022
as Johanna Spyri (voice)
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
2001
as Self
Kein Freibrief für Mord
1966
as Christine Foster
La Nourrice
2004
as Mme Dumayet-Ponti
Par amour
2003
as Nicole Doucet
Unveiled
2018
as Isabelle
Femmes de personne
1984
as Cecile
Everybody Loves Jeanne
2022
as Claudia, mère de Jeanne
Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains
2017
as Irène Volkov
Seven Minutes
1989
as Frau Wagner
Sing Me Back Home
2019
as Louise
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
1973
as Marlène Réval
Jedermann Remixed
2011
as Buhlschaft (archive footage)
Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt
1964
as Der Friede
Breath of Life
2018
as Mathilde Chaykine
Homo Faber (Trois femmes)
2015
as Hanna
The Violet Hour
2018
as Anushka
Tango
1970
as Aline
Lapse of Memory
1991
as Linda Farmer (Marie Carson)
In a Rush
2012
as Mina
Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora
2014
as Self
Fall of a Body
1973
as Marthe Renon
Tödliches Geld
1995
as Beatrice Belmont
Mariana Pineda
1965
Wilder Reiter GmbH
1967
as Nonne
From Behind
1999
as Christina
Nightsongs
2004
as Mutter
Mon amie Max
1994
as Catherine Mercier
Die Frau des Reporters
1986
as Esther
Miséricorde
2016
as Gloria
Sous un autre jour
2009
as Iréne
Turbulences
1992
as Hélène
La Résidence
2011
as Léa
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017
as Self
À deux pas du paradis
1992
as Eva Grundberg
La Ruelle au clair de lune
1988
as Nelly (Helma Schleyer)
Regie: Billy Wilder
1978
as Self
Dans l'ombre du maître
2008
as Maria
Liberate mio figlio
1993
as Elena
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993
as Jeanne d'arc
Der Platzanweiser
1983
Pfeiffer
1967
as Marthe
La veuve rusée
1969
as Rosaura
Bach rencontre Buxtehude
2010
as Voix off
Antiquitäten
1965
as Junge Frau
Modus Operandi
2008
as Narrator (voice)
Corinne und der Seebär
1966
as Corinne
Im Kreis der Iris
1993
as Marikka
Nuits blanches
1997
as Julia
The Missing Granddaughter
2007
as Eva
Fragile
2006
as Emma
Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood
2019
as Herself
L'aigle à deux têtes
1975
as La reine
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 130 credits spanning from 1948 to 2025, Marthe Keller has appeared in 109 films and 21 TV shows.
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Most Popular Marthe Keller Movies
- The Amateur (2025) — as Florist
- Marathon Man (1976) — as Elsa Opel
- Hereafter (2010) — as Dr. Rousseau
- One Life (2023) — as Betty Maxwell
- Black Sunday (1977) — as Dahlia
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