Catherine Mouchet

Catherine Mouchet

Born: August 21, 1959
in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Catherine Mouchet (born 21 August 1959) is a French actress.

She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, following the courses of Jacques Lassalle and Claude Régy. Her performance in the film Thérèse, directed by Alain Cavalier, won her the César Award for Most Promising Actress for 1987.

Having been acclaimed for her appearance in Thérèse, she next appeared in Claude Goretta's Si le soleil ne revenait pas in 1987, and then devoted herself to theatre for a time. She appeared in works by Luigi Pirandello, (Vêtir ceux qui sont nus), and Alfred de Musset, (Les Caprices de Marianne), amongst others, and directed La Petite dame with Claude Guyonnet in 1992. She returned to the screen in Jean-Pierre Mocky's Bonsoir 1993, and in Louis and Xavier Bachelot's short film La Plante. On television she appeared in the saga Jalna, directed by Philippe Monnier from the books of Mazo de la Roche, and Le blanc à lunettes, directed by Édouard Nierman, from a Georges Simenon novel. She then studied for a degree in philosophy.

She returned to the screen and played supporting roles in two Olivier Assayas films, Fin août, début septembre and Les Destinées sentimentales. She appeared in Pierre Jolivet's My Little Business, for which she received a nomination for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Philippe Harel's 1999 Extension du domaine de la lutte, an adaptation of Michel Houellebecq's controversial breakthrough novel Whatever, in which she played a psychoanalyst. She played a prostitute in Patrice Leconte's Rue des Plaisirs. She continues to appear in a wide variety of roles in both auteur films and popular comedies, and for both first time directors and established talents.

In October 2008 Mouchet appeared at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg in Jean Magnan's "et pourtant ce silence ne pouvait être vide", based, like Jean Genet's The Maids, on the Papin sisters murders in 1933.

Source: Article "Catherine Mouchet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Toni
Title: Toni
Character: La mère de Toni
Released: September 6, 2023
Type: Movie
Toni has spent her entire life putting other people’s needs before her own. When she was 20 years old, she was pushed by her mother to join a TV singing competition, becoming a national star. Twenty years and five children later, she is a full-time mom who spends all her time and effort on raising her teenage kids. As she helps her children plan their future after graduation, she begins to imagine what her life could be if - for once - she did what she really wanted. Will she be able to turn her life around and dare to be something other than a mother and a daughter?
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No One's Missing
Title: No One's Missing
Released: September 5, 2020
Type: Movie
Suzanne was not keen on returning to this village in which she grew up. It was her brother Anton who insisted that she finally see their father again. Before it 's too late ? Indeed the old man has for some time completely lost his mind. If the reunion promises to be complicated, Anton doesn't know yet that the return of a sister can turn many lives. Starting with his life.
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De Gaulle
Title: De Gaulle
Character: Mlle Potel
Released: March 4, 2020
Type: Movie
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
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The Specials
Title: The Specials
Character: Doctor Ronssin
Released: October 23, 2019
Type: Movie
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
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The Great Mystical Circus
Title: The Great Mystical Circus
Character: Imperatriz
Released: November 15, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s up to the early 21st century, following both the family and the circus from their prime through to their decadence.
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The Royal Exchange
Title: The Royal Exchange
Character: Madame de Ventadour
Released: December 27, 2017
Type: Movie
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate an era of peace and prosperity that will heal the economies of both nations: his intention is to build a solid network of marriage alliances that will involve four children of very different ages who know nothing of betrayals and power games…
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Reinventing Marvin
Title: Reinventing Marvin
Character: Madeleine Clément
Released: November 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation.
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Va, Toto!
Title: Va, Toto!
Character: The Innkeeper
Released: October 4, 2017
Type: Movie
A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. The arrival of Toto the marcassin at Madeleine's house, Vincent's trip to India and his troubles with the monkeys, or Joseph's dreams provoked by the continuous pressure machine, are three stories that Pierre will share and that in one way or another summon up our relationship with the animal, with this other neighbor
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Ismael's Ghosts
Title: Ismael's Ghosts
Character: Le médecin soins intensifs
Released: May 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, presumed dead for 20 years, come crashing back into his life creating chaos in his work and his current romantic relationship with the starry-eyed astronomer Sylvia.
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The Poisoning Angel
Title: The Poisoning Angel
Character: Anne Jégado
Released: January 18, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1800, Brittany is on its knees, overwhelmed by the regime in place and by the omnipotent clergy. It founders in an economic slump without end in sight and, in the middle of all this, a young, suffering girl pushes back as best she can. She is known as the "Poisoning Angel," an isolated child, mistreated by life and rocked by morbid thoughts. She will become one of the world's most notorious serial killers and will sow death, perhaps merely to be looked at and loved.
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Looking for Her
Title: Looking for Her
Character: Mme Kubiak
Released: January 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
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Title: Witnesses
Character: Maxine "Max" Dubreuil
Released: March 18, 2015
Type: TV
Witnesses (French: Les Témoins) is a French police procedural television series, created by Marc Herpoux and Hervé Hadmar. In the first season, police detectives Sandra Winckler and Justin investigate when bodies of murder victims are unearthed and left for discovery in the show homes of a housing developer. Former chief-of-police, Paul Maisonneuve, is implicated. In the second season, Sandra and Justin find themselves on the trail of a serial killer whose modus operandi is to murder all former lovers of his kidnap victims.
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My Friend Victoria
Title: My Friend Victoria
Character: Elena Savinet
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
Aged eight, Victoria spends a night in the home of a wealthy white family; years later, she encounters them again and her life is changed forever.
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Title: Clash
Character: Pauline Kazinski, mère de Cassius
Released: May 9, 2012
Type: TV
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The Monk
Title: The Monk
Character: Elvire
Released: July 12, 2011
Type: Movie
A virtuous monk descends to the depths of sin and depravity after Satan sends an unholy temptress to lead him astray.
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Comment va la douleur ?
Title: Comment va la douleur ?
Character: Rose
Released: May 13, 2011
Type: Movie
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Family Tree
Title: Family Tree
Character: Françoise
Released: February 16, 2010
Type: Movie
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, Frédérick's reasons and the painful secret Charles harbored for years threaten the foundations of the entire family.
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The Other Dumas
Title: The Other Dumas
Character: Caroline Maquet
Released: February 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration for they have just published "The Count of Monte Christo", "Queen Margot" and "The Three Musketeers". If it's Maquet who writes the majority of the texts, both the honours and fame go to Dumas.
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Title: Pigalle, la nuit
Character: Alice
Released: November 23, 2009
Type: TV
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In Your Arms
Title: In Your Arms
Character: Adrienne
Released: July 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Louis was adopted when he was just a baby. Now sixteen-year-old Louis wants to know where he comes from. He therefore heads south to find the mother he's never known. Totally thrown by this unexpected visit, Solange rejects the child she never desired. Louis will nevertheless do everything he can to make her accept him.
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Title: The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Character: Rose-Marie Bousquet
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
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Two Worlds
Title: Two Worlds
Character: The librarian
Released: November 21, 2007
Type: Movie
A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.
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Madame Irma
Title: Madame Irma
Character: Brigitte Gillon
Released: December 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Francis, who is in his forties, manages the French subsidiary of an American high-tech company. But the shareholders suddenly decide to close it. Depressed by the idea of being unemployed and the prospect of losing his second wife, Francis decides to consult a fortune-teller. The experience is a real eye-opener for him and the start of a new career: He pretends to be a fortune teller himself and turns into Madame Irma. How to explain that to his wife Clotilde?
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A Summer Day
Title: A Summer Day
Character: Mickaël's mother
Released: June 6, 2006
Type: Movie
The sudden death of a teenager during a soccer match puts a small community completely off-balance.
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Writer of O
Title: Writer of O
Character: Young Dominique Aury
Released: April 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Published in Paris in 1954, Story of O was an immediate bestseller and literary scandal: an elegantly written S&M fantasy that had all the hallmarks of being an autobiographical account by the pseudonymous Pauline Réage. In 1994 Dominique Aury, a mild-mannered, dowdy editor for France’s prestigious Gallimard press, revealed her authorship. Pola Rapaport explores Aury's inspiration, recreating the world of '50s literary Paris and setting it against dramatic sequences that bring the infamous book to life. The author as well as various French intellectuals expound on the thorny relationship between sexuality and power, submission and freedom, liberation and non-being.
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Coup de vache
Title: Coup de vache
Character: Yvonne
Released: December 19, 2004
Type: Movie
An old man bequeaths his fortune to a television host, much to the chagrin of his own family.
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Nature contre nature
Title: Nature contre nature
Character: Ms. Oudinot
Released: March 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Sébastien Chantoux, a psychoanalyst, decides to move to the Creuse. Adapting little by little to the local customs, he joined "Troc'en Creuse", an association that promotes exchange between individuals. He proposes, within this framework, psychoanalysis sessions.
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She's One of Us
Title: She's One of Us
Character: Patricia
Released: September 24, 2003
Type: Movie
At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; she cooks too much food when she invites a supervisor to dinner. When the supervisor takes Christine on a spontaneous outing that disorients her, her oddities become something else. Can things ever be normal?
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Small Cuts
Title: Small Cuts
Character: Anne
Released: February 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his political beliefs battered by the wind of history, Bruno seems to have lost his bearings.
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The Repentant
Title: The Repentant
Character: Alice, das Zimmermädchen
Released: April 17, 2002
Type: Movie
A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...
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Love Street
Title: Love Street
Character: Lena
Released: February 13, 2002
Type: Movie
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
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The Pornographer
Title: The Pornographer
Character: Olivia Rochet
Released: October 3, 2001
Type: Movie
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s and '80s, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60s counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier, he is now directing a porno again. Jacques's artistry clashes with his financially-troubled producer's ideas about shooting hard-core sex. Jacques has been estranged from his son Joseph for years, since the son first learned the nature of the family business. They are now speaking again. Joseph and his friends want to recapture the idealism of 1968 with a protest. Separated from his wife, Jacques strives for personal renewal with plans to build a new house by himself...
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Hors Service
Title: Hors Service
Character: The accountant
Released: June 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Ils sont cinq tueurs. Francis, le chef, Louis le parano, Victor, l'accro aux series tele, M'sieur, fan de tamagochi et Marchand, dont la femme est la seule certitude. Elle le croit representant en chaussures. Jusqu'au jour ou elle decouvre la verite. Une discussion plus qu'orageuse suit, au cours de laquelle il lui balance un coup de poing d'une telle force qu'elle tombe dans le coma. Marchand est effondre. Il acquiert la conviction que, s'il se rachete, elle se reveillera. Il decide non seulement de raccrocher mais encore de sauver ses hypothetiques victimes.
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Du côté des filles
Title: Du côté des filles
Character: Catherine
Released: April 25, 2001
Type: Movie
A suburban pavilion, garden gnomes, a bloody scene. Break between Fred and Liza. As happiness never comes alone, Carole, emerges, announces to Liza that she is pregnant with Fred. Liza takes the kid in a wagon stolen from Fred.
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J'ai tué Clémence Acéra
Title: J'ai tué Clémence Acéra
Released: April 11, 2001
Type: Movie
A man's wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life.
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Mortal Transfer
Title: Mortal Transfer
Character: The maths teacher
Released: January 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Michel, a psycho-analyst, falls asleep while listening to his patient Olga, a kleptomaniac and a sexual pervert, tell him how she likes her husband beating her. When he wakes up, he finds Olga having been choked to death. He now has to deal with a body, with Olga's rich husband who thinks she stole money from him, and with all his patients' insanity that haunts him.
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Sentimental Destinies
Title: Sentimental Destinies
Character: Fernande
Released: July 12, 2000
Type: Movie
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He and his lover keep their love strong as the world changes around them.
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La danse des asperges sarrasines
Title: La danse des asperges sarrasines
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Robert doesn't look up to much in his prisoner's suit. But when needs be, Robert also knows how to be a prince. And when it comes down to it, who else would dare to stand up to the horde of Saracen asparagus?
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Whatever
Title: Whatever
Character: La psychologue
Released: October 13, 1999
Type: Movie
It is a story of a depressed, isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job.
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My Little Business
Title: My Little Business
Character: Lucie
Released: September 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A wood worker is trying hard to make his company survive every day... But a fire in his workshop leaves him in a lot of trouble when he realizes his insurer was swindling him - he does not have any insurance... That's when a crazy idea grows in his mind - he will need all his friends and their different talents to make it work...
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Late August, Early September
Title: Late August, Early September
Character: Attachée parlementaire
Released: February 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
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Le blanc à lunettes
Title: Le blanc à lunettes
Released: February 10, 1995
Type: Movie
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Title: Studio Gabriel
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 1994
Type: TV
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Bonsoir
Title: Bonsoir
Character: Eugénie
Released: January 19, 1994
Type: Movie
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.
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If the Sun Never Returns
Title: If the Sun Never Returns
Character: Isabelle Antide
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: Movie
The residents of a remote Swiss mountain village come to believe an ancient oracle in this drama taken from the novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. With news of the Spanish Civil War on the radio, the people begin to believe the sun will not return and the world will be forever darkened.
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Thérèse
Title: Thérèse
Character: Thérèse
Released: June 21, 1986
Type: Movie
The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the little way" to God are shown clearly, using plain modern language. A sense of angelic simplicity comes across without fancy lights, choirs, or showy miracles.
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Title: Ouija
Character: Madeleine Lafarge
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV