Catherine Hiegel
Catherine Hiegel (born 10 December 1946) is a French actress, comedian and director. Catherine Hiegel is the daughter of Pierre Hiegel, radio host, music critic, radio producer and artistic director of French houses of discs. She is also the niece of Pierre Bellemare. At ten, she played Cosette in a radio adaptation of Les Misérables, where her father played Jean Valjean. She sang in 1956 with André Claveau, Viens danser avec papa. On the advice of her father, she stopped school to learn comedy. She took lessons with Raymond Girard and Jacques Charon, and began her career on stage to the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens with Cactus Flower, alongside Jean Poiret and Sophie Desmarets. She joined the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts in the classes of Jean Marchat then Lise Delamare, and also attended classes of Jean-Laurent Cochet. She joined the Comédie-Française in 1969. She worked with directors as varied as Philippe Adrien, Patrice Chéreau, Dario Fo, Jorge Lavelli, Jean-Paul Roussillon, in the classical and contemporary repertoire. She became Dean of the troupe after the death of Christine Fersen in 2008. Catherine Hiegel is also a professor to the CNSAD for thirteen years. She have won 2 Molière Award on 5 nominations. Source: Article "Catherine Hiegel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
French Twist
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Life Is a Long Quiet River
as JosetteTwo babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to...
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Secrets of State
as La mère de PierreIn France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the...
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The Great Magic
as La mère de CharlesThe 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby...
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My Life Is Hell
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A French Gigolo
as MaggyMarco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual...
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Michou d'Auber
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Violette
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Man Is a Woman
as Rosalie's motherSimon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One...
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Granny's Funeral
as SuzanneA provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly...
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A Butterfly Kiss
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Miss Impossible
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Widow's Walk
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He's My Girl
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The Chops
as la MortA father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love,...
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Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents
as RégineThis bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and...
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The Grand Restaurant IV
as uncreditedFor this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get...
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State of Grace
as SylvieShe is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a...
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In a Better World
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Lady Cops
as DanyMireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a...
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The Grand Restaurant III
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La vie est à nous !
as LucieLouise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage,...
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Fred
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The Other Shore
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La Petite Amie
as OdileMartin Morel wants to spend Sylvester with both his wife and family and his girlfriend Agnes. So...
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The Abused Children of Riaumont
as Narratrice (Voix)For decades, the pupils of the Riaumont children's village in northern France, run by Catholic...
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Would-Be Gentleman
as NicoleLe Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality,...
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Bad Ronald
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Une page d'amour
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Hygiène de l'assassin
as CatherinePart police thriller and part exploration of the dark side of men's attitudes about women,...
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Le mangeur de lune
as uncreditedA man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.
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Le roi se meurt
as JulietteA staging of Eugène Ionesco's play "Exit the King" by Jorge Lavelli.
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2 ou 3 choses de Marie Jacobson
as uncreditedMarie is a doctor. She smokes and reads a lot. And speaks from time to time with the dead....
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Malaterra
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