Catherine Hiegel

Catherine Hiegel

Born: December 10, 1946
in Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
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.

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The Great Magic
Title: The Great Magic
Character: La mère de Charles
Released: February 8, 2023
Type: Movie
The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois Charles Moufflet, disappear, who takes advantage of this tour to escape for good.
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The Grand Restaurant IV
Title: The Grand Restaurant IV
Released: December 15, 2022
Type: Movie
For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for that, he settles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Pierre faces an unscrupulous culinary critic, who will offer him a dubious deal: to dismiss his historic chef in exchange for this famous star. Will the manager of the Grand Restaurant accept?
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In a Better World
Title: In a Better World
Character: Anne
Released: November 16, 2022
Type: Movie
On the road of Briançon, David's car hits a young immigrant chased by the police. Instinctively, David hides him into the boot, and brings him to his home with his wife Gabrielle and his two children. Upset by this teenager's fate, David will help him by all costs.
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The Grand Restaurant III
Title: The Grand Restaurant III
Character: Victor's mother
Released: February 3, 2021
Type: Movie
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” in the form of a fiction offered by M6. Exit the brewery. The artist has chosen to shoot his film at the Froufrou, the restaurant at the Théâtre Édouard-VII, in Paris, a chic establishment with rococo decor, more solemn and therefore more appropriate to important moments in life, to his big announcements that make the subject of a series of sketches. They are interpreted by a cast of stars just as prestigious as that of his comrade Muriel Robin a few weeks ago in I Love you coiffure , on TF1. As a common thread, Pierre Palmade in the role of the host busy satisfying his customers, while ensuring that his mother (Marthe Villalonga), his competitor (Florence Foresti) and her cook husband (Jean Leduc) do not transform the evening in disaster.
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2 ou 3 choses de Marie Jacobson
Title: 2 ou 3 choses de Marie Jacobson
Released: April 24, 2019
Type: Movie
Marie is a doctor. She smokes and reads a lot. And speaks from time to time with the dead. Today, she learns that it is her turn to die. She only has to live a few weeks. It’s short. She must act quikly, dream, laugh and still live.
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Miss Impossible
Title: Miss Impossible
Character: Agathe
Released: January 11, 2017
Type: Movie
They’re all nuts. Her parents, who want to send her off to boarding school. Her new teacher, who expects her to read impossibly old books. Her fellow band members, who make her sing ridiculous lyrics and dress her up in a frilly white dress for their first show. Everyone seems to know what she should do and how she should act. And it’s not like 13-year-old Aurore has any fundamental problem with changing herself either. Who would want to be like this: unhappy, ugly and emotionally withdrawn? But the others don’t seem all that much happier to her either. She definitely doesn’t ever want to be as old, rundown and lonely as her mother. And so she prefers to stay the way she is, to observe and make her biting comments on whatever comes her way.
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Nine Days in Winter
Title: Nine Days in Winter
Character: Mado
Released: December 11, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Malaterra
Character: Rose Olivesi
Released: November 18, 2015
Type: TV
Malaterra: for the residents this village is a haven of peace, a refuge. Until the death of a child. This once united community, where everyone thought they could trust each other, falls apart. Who killed little Nathan? And why?
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Violette
Title: Violette
Character: Berthe Leduc
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
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Granny's Funeral
Title: Granny's Funeral
Character: Suzanne
Released: June 19, 2012
Type: Movie
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
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A Butterfly Kiss
Title: A Butterfly Kiss
Character: la mère de Marie
Released: June 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
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He's My Girl
Title: He's My Girl
Character: Arlette
Released: December 3, 2009
Type: Movie
A clarinetist is trying to finish his record when his wife and ten year old son reappear in his life. His 10-year-old son whom he has never seen, and Naim, a young Muslim transvestite who will change his life ...
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Secrets of State
Title: Secrets of State
Character: La mère de Pierre
Released: December 10, 2008
Type: Movie
In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.
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A French Gigolo
Title: A French Gigolo
Character: Maggy
Released: October 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married to Fanny, an ambitious young woman who has opened her own hairdressing salon in partnership with her friend Rosalie. Marco/Patrick is not a male prostitute at heart: in fact he does the job in order to support his wife's business. Which doesn't prevent Judith, an elegant tele-shopping presenter who buys his services, from falling in love with him. But when Fanny learns what Marco does and with whom, she first gets mad but soon starts interfering in their affair.
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Michou d'Auber
Title: Michou d'Auber
Character: la directrice de l'orphelinat
Released: February 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.
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La vie est à nous !
Title: La vie est à nous !
Character: Lucie
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Louise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage, run by Lucie and her daughters. The rivalry between the two cafes will be exacerbated during the truckers' strike that blocks the village.
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The Chops
Title: The Chops
Character: la Mort
Released: May 28, 2003
Type: Movie
A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast.
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Hygiène de l'assassin
Title: Hygiène de l'assassin
Character: Catherine
Released: February 24, 1999
Type: Movie
Part police thriller and part exploration of the dark side of men's attitudes about women, Hygiene de l'assassin concerns a young female journalist, Nina (Barbara Schulz). Nina has scored a plumb assignment, an interview with Tach (Jean Yanne), a well-known but reculsive novelist who rarely speaks to the press. After he passes along his less-than-charitable views about women (including the belief they should be killed in childhood, before they start to menstruate), Nina concludes the interview, but soon finds herself interrogated by police when Tach is found dead and she is the key suspect.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Man Is a Woman
Title: Man Is a Woman
Character: Rosalie's mother
Released: March 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.
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The Other Shore
Title: The Other Shore
Character: Maria
Released: May 21, 1997
Type: Movie
This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in Oran. He travels to Paris for a cataract operation. Marinette, his sister, and Belka, his friend and a recent immigrant, want him to return to France permanently. Friction develops between the two friends as Georges is pressured to sell his factory. Friendship developed between Georges and his surgeon, who as a French Arab has severed ties with his culture and country of origin.
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Fred
Title: Fred
Character: Madame Mandor
Released: March 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Fred (Vincent Lindon) is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend (Clotilde Courau), does the housework and sometimes goes to the job center but boredom is inescapable. One day, because he accepted to drive a truck for a friend to a warehouse, he's caught up in a vicious spiral that goes beyond him. It's all the more serious as shady men want to eliminate him an the police is on his back.
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La serva amorosa
Title: La serva amorosa
Character: Coraline
Released: November 4, 1996
Type: Movie
Coraline, a young servant in love with Florindo, will thwart the plans of Beatrice, the second wife of Ottavio, father of Florindo, who wants to capture the legacy of Florindo for his own advantage and that of his own son.
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French Twist
Title: French Twist
Character: Dany
Released: January 18, 1995
Type: Movie
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
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Le mangeur de lune
Title: Le mangeur de lune
Released: October 12, 1994
Type: Movie
A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.
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Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents
Title: Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents
Character: Régine
Released: December 1, 1993
Type: Movie
This bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and grateful French men and women, the promise of Russian communism was bright, and everything Russian was a source of joy and amazement. In the story, Irene was rescued from Auschwitz by soldiers from the U.S.S.R., and since that time she has enthusiatically considered Russia to be the source of hope in the world. Her more pragmatic husband has, by 1958, grown somewhat weary of her enthusiasm, which has led her to decorate their apartment with anything Russian she can get her hands on. Matters come to a head when she is befriended by three members of the Red Army Choir during their tour of Paris.
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Bad Ronald
Title: Bad Ronald
Character: La mère de Ronald
Released: March 11, 1992
Type: Movie
A teenager, Ronald, unintentionally causes the death of a young girl on a beach. So that the police do not find him, his mother locks him in a cubicle, under the stairs of the house. On her death, the house was rented to an English family.
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My Life Is Hell
Title: My Life Is Hell
Character: Lilith
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.
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La Petite Amie
Title: La Petite Amie
Character: Odile
Released: September 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Martin Morel wants to spend Sylvester with both his wife and family and his girlfriend Agnes. So he asks his clumsy friend Bertin to pretend she'd be his wife. But the two can't stand each other... at first.
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Life Is a Long Quiet River
Title: Life Is a Long Quiet River
Character: Josette
Released: February 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
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Widow's Walk
Title: Widow's Walk
Character: Dr. Chauveau
Released: December 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Molinat is assigned to the case of a man found with a bullet in his ear on the shore of a little Atlantic coast resort he knows well. Indeed, he used to live there before his wife disappeared at sea, never to be found again. As the ocean rejects a new corpse everyday, the mystery thickens and the list of potential suspects grows longer. This slows Molinat's progress as much as the cumbersome Leroyer, sent in to spy on him and hopefully impede his progress. The tension mounts and the ring involving the three young ladies in the grey mansion, the village idiot and the real estate agent starts spinning out of control.
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L'imprésario de Smyrne
Title: L'imprésario de Smyrne
Released: August 3, 1987
Type: Movie
The Venetian performance world is on the alert: an impresario is looking for talent to stage what he defines as the most beautiful opera of his time. Everyone goes there from their pushy little merry-go-round to attract the favors of the character and extricate themselves from misery. But the main interested party hardly seems to be sensitive to these effects.
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State of Grace
Title: State of Grace
Character: Sylvie
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...
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La Dame de chez Maxim
Title: La Dame de chez Maxim
Character: Madame Claux
Released: February 12, 1981
Type: Movie
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Une page d'amour
Title: Une page d'amour
Character: Pauline, soeur de Juliette
Released: October 18, 1980
Type: Movie
In Passy, ​​Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. Together they spend the night at the bedside, and it develops from a trusting encounter a love relationship. When the doctor Hélène one day confesses his love, the daughter comes from jealousy in another, life-threatening crisis. A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Émile Zola, which addresses the social milieu of the bourgeois family in the "Second Empire".
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Les trois soeurs
Title: Les trois soeurs
Character: Natacha
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
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La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
Title: La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
Character: Mme Daniel
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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George Dandin
Title: George Dandin
Character: Angélique
Released: January 6, 1973
Type: Movie
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Would-Be Gentleman
Title: Would-Be Gentleman
Character: Nicole
Released: December 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.