Career

Early years

Marthe 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.

Film work

Keller's earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin (1966, in which she was not credited) 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 (1976) and her performance as a femme fatale Palestinian terrorist who leads an attack on the Super Bowl in Black Sunday (1977). Keller acted alongside Al Pacino in the 1977 romantic drama film Bobby Deerfield, based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel Heaven Has No Favorites, and subsequently the two of them were involved in a relationship. She also acted alongside William Holden in Billy Wilder's 1978 romantic drama Fedora.

After 1978, Keller worked more steadily in European cinema compared to American movies. Her later films include Dark Eyes (1987), with Marcello Mastroianni.

In April 2016, she was announced as the President of the Jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Theater work

In 2001, Keller appeared in an all-star Broadway adaptation of Abby Mann's play Judgment at Nuremberg, directed by John Tillinger, as Mrs. Bertholt, in 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.

Opera work

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 Arthur Honegger's oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher 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.

Personal life

Keller has one son, Alexandre (born 1971), from her relationship with director Philippe de Broca.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1966	Funeral in Berlin	uncredited	Guy Hamilton
1967	Wilder Reiter GmbH (de)	the nun	Franz-Josef Spieker (de)
1969	Le Diable par la queue (fr)	Amélie	Philippe de Broca
1970	Les Caprices de Marie (fr)	Marie Panneton	Philippe de Broca
1971	Arsène Lupin	Countess Natasha	Jean-Pierre Decourt (fr)	TV series, 3 episodes
1972	La Demoiselle d'Avignon (fr)	Koba	Michel Wyn (fr)	TV series
	The Old Maid	Vicka	Jean-Pierre Blanc
1974	Only the Wind Knows the Answer	Angela Delpierre	Alfred Vohrer
	And Now My Love	Sarah/her mother/her grandmother	Claude Lelouch
1975	Down the Ancient Staircase	Bianca	Mauro Bolognini
1976	Marathon Man	Elsa Opel	John Schlesinger
1977	Black Sunday	Dahlia Iyad	John Frankenheimer
	Bobby Deerfield	Lillian	Sydney Pollack
1978	Fedora	Fedora/Antonia	Billy Wilder
1980	The Formula	Lisa Spangler	John G. Avildsen
1981	The Amateur	Elisabeth	Charles Jarrott
1982	La Certosa di Parma (it)	Gina Sanseverina	Mauro Bolognini	TV miniseries
1983	Wagner	Mathilde Wesendonck	Tony Palmer	TV miniseries
1985	Red Kiss	Bronka	Véra Belmont
	Joan Lui	Judy Johnson	Adriano Celentano
1987	Dark Eyes	Tina	Nikita Mikhalkov
1991	Young Catherine	Princess Johanna	Michael Anderson	TV miniseries
1994	My Friend Max	Catherine Mercier	Michel Brault
1996	Sostiene Pereira	Mrs. Delgado	Roberto Faenza
1997	Women	Barbara	Luís Galvão Teles
1998	The School of Flesh	Misses Thorpe	Benoît Jacquot
2002	Time of the Wolf	Rebecca McGregor	Rod Pridy
2004	Nightsongs (de)	Mother	Romuald Karmakar
2007	Chrysalis	Professor Brügen	Julien Leclercq
2010	Hereafter	the Swiss doctor	Clint Eastwood
2011	The Giants	Rosa	Bouli Lanners
	Page Eight	Leona Chew	David Hare	TV film
	Mein bester Feind (de)	Hannah Kaufmann	Wolfgang Murnberger (de)
2013	The Mark of the Angels - Miserere	Laura Bernheim	Sylvain White
2016	After Love	Christine	Joachim Lafosse

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