Catherine Hiegel

Catherine Hiegel

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.

  • Title: Catherine Hiegel
  • Popularity: 1.629
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1946-12-10
  • Place of Birth: Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
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Catherine Hiegel Movies

  • 1974
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    La Confession d'un enfant du siècle

    La Confession d'un enfant du siècle

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1988
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    Life Is a Long Quiet River

    Life Is a Long Quiet River

    6.751 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    My Life Is Hell

    My Life Is Hell

    5.8 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 1995
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    French Twist

    French Twist

    6.076 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    The Great Magic

    The Great Magic

    5.1 2023 HD

    The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois...

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  • 2007
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    Michou d'Auber

    Michou d'Auber

    6.4 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    A French Gigolo

    A French Gigolo

    5.1 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Granny's Funeral

    Granny's Funeral

    5.6 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    The Chops

    The Chops

    6.1 2003 HD

    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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  • 1986
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    State of Grace

    State of Grace

    3 1986 HD

    She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and...

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  • 2009
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    He's My Girl

    He's My Girl

    4.9 2009 HD

    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,...

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  • 2005
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    La vie est à nous !

    La vie est à nous !

    5.2 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents

    Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents

    5.8 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    A Butterfly Kiss

    A Butterfly Kiss

    5.2 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    In a Better World

    In a Better World

    7.5 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Le mangeur de lune

    Le mangeur de lune

    1 1994 HD

    A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.

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  • 2013
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    Violette

    Violette

    5.944 2013 HD

    Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong...

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  • 1987
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    Widow's Walk

    Widow's Walk

    5.308 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    The Other Shore

    The Other Shore

    6.6 1997 HD

    This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory...

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  • 1997
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    Fred

    Fred

    6 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1998
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    Man Is a Woman

    Man Is a Woman

    5.5 1998 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    Hygiène de l'assassin

    Hygiène de l'assassin

    6 1999 HD

    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,...

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  • 2022
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    The Grand Restaurant IV

    The Grand Restaurant IV

    8 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    Nine Days in Winter

    Nine Days in Winter

    5.8 2015 HD

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  • 2017
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    Miss Impossible

    Miss Impossible

    5.5 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Secrets of State

    Secrets of State

    5.8 2008 HD

    In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist...

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  • 1987
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    Lady Cops

    Lady Cops

    4.8 1987 HD

    Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge...

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  • 1988
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    La Petite Amie

    La Petite Amie

    2.8 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    La serva amorosa

    La serva amorosa

    1 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    La Dame de chez Maxim

    La Dame de chez Maxim

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1980
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    Les trois soeurs

    Les trois soeurs

    9 1980 HD

    Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga...

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  • 1973
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    George Dandin

    George Dandin

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1980
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    Une page d'amour

    Une page d'amour

    5.5 1980 HD

    In Passy, ​​Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly...

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  • 2019
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    2 ou 3 choses de Marie Jacobson

    2 ou 3 choses de Marie Jacobson

    1 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    Would-Be Gentleman

    Would-Be Gentleman

    1 1968 HD

    Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class...

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  • 1987
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    L'imprésario de Smyrne

    L'imprésario de Smyrne

    1 1987 HD

    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....

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  • 2021
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    The Grand Restaurant III

    The Grand Restaurant III

    5.3 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 1992
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    Bad Ronald

    Bad Ronald

    1 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 1978
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    Le roi se meurt

    Le roi se meurt

    1 1978 HD

    A staging of Eugène Ionesco's play "Exit the King" by Jorge Lavelli.

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  • 1996
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    Mylène

    Mylène

    7 1996 HD

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  • 2024
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    The Abused Children of Riaumont

    The Abused Children of Riaumont

    8 2024 HD

    For decades, the pupils of the Riaumont children's village in northern France, run by Catholic monks and priests, were subjected to abuse and sexual...

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  • 1991
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    Lars Norén - dramatiker

    Lars Norén - dramatiker

    1 1991 HD

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  • 2009
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    L'Avare

    L'Avare

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2018
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    The Game of Love and Chance

    The Game of Love and Chance

    8 2018 HD

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  • 2015
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    Malaterra

    Malaterra

    7 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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  • 1972
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    6 1972 HD

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