Marthe Keller Biography

Fast Facts

• Served as president of the Camera d'Or jury at Cannes Film Festival in 1994
• Studied theatre for three years at teh Stanislavsky school in Munich and the Schiller theatre
• Got her start in acting with a role in "Funeral in Berlin․"
• Started out as a ballet dancer, but quit after she was involved in a ski accident
• Quote: "[On acting] "In a first film, as in any first time, there is a purity, an astonishment that is never to be found again, an irrepressible desire to show us and to tell us something․""
• Along with being a stage actress, she has directed many operas
• Lived on both sides of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War