MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Co-Director
French nationality
Birth December 10, 1946 (Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis – France)
BIOGRAPHY
Catherine Hiegel began her career on stage. After the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, she joined the Comédie-Française in 1969. She worked there with directors as varied as Philippe Adrien , Patrice Chéreau , Dario Fo , Joël Jouanneau , Jacques Lassalle , Jean-Paul Roussillon , Giorgio Strehler , etc. in the classical and contemporary repertoire. She became a member of the Comédie-Française in 1976, and commonly appears in television adaptations of famous plays.
In 1986, she took her first steps in the cinema in The State of Grace by Jacques Rouffio alongside Nicole Garcia and Sami Frey . But it was her interpretation of a worrying nurse with Daniel Gélin in Life is a Long Quiet River (1987) by Etienne Chatiliez which revealed her to the general public. Year in which she also starred in a feature film directed by Josiane Balasko , Les Keufs . A collaboration which was reiterated in 1991 with Ma vie est un enfer . Catherine Hiegel is involved in theater roles at the Comédie-Française and the Théâtre national de la Colline. A great theater actress, she also accepted roles in often historical television dramas such as Une page d’amour by Elie Chouraqui , Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Pierre Badel , and La Confession d’un enfant du siècle by Claude Santelli .
In 1993, Jean-Jacques Zilbermann offered him a role in his first feature film Not everyone was lucky enough to have communist parents . She collaborated again with the filmmaker in L’Homme est une femme comme les autres (1998) after reuniting with Josiane Balasko in a comedy about homosexuality, Gazon maudit (1995). Often chosen to play dark roles, the actress is alongside Claude Brasseur in the touching The Other Side of the Sea by Dominique Cabrera . A detective film follows, Hygiene of the Assassin , by Francois Ruggieri . In 2002, Bertrand Blier asked her to play Death in Les Côtelettes where she shared the bill withPhilippe Noiret and Michel Bouquet . Life is ours! (2005) allows her to once again find Josiane Balasko in a dramatic comedy, where she this time plays the owner of a café restaurant.
After an appearance in Michou d’Auber , alongside Gérard Depardieu in 2007, she was made doyenne of the Comédie Française in 2008, after the death of Christine Fersen . Despite her age, she alternates plays, television and cinema with refreshing vivacity, playing both in Cliente (directed by her friend Josiane Balasko ) or the thriller Secret Défense , as well as in the new adaptations of Molière for television. Her art on stage is also recognized, since in 2010 she received the Molière for actress for the play “La Mère” , by Florian Zeller . The following year, this respected figure of French theater and cinema took up a new small role in A Butterfly Kiss , before having a more substantial score in the new film by Bruno Podalydès , Adieu Berthe ou l’ burial de mémé , selected at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
