Biography
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 P...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Ties That Bind Us
2025
as Fanny (la mère de Cécile)
A young single father trying to find the strength to love. A feminist librarian, single by conviction, who’s decided that she won’t be a mother. A six...
Toni
2023
as La mère de Toni
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 singi...
No One's Missing
2020
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....
De Gaulle
2020
as Mlle Potel
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, ...
The Specials
2019
as Doctor Ronssin
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 organi...
The Great Mystical Circus
2018
as Imperatriz Catarina
The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s ...
The Royal Exchange
2017
as Madame de Ventadour
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...
Reinventing Marvin
2017
as Madeleine Clément
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 f...
Go, Toto!
2017
as The Innkeeper
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 Ind...
Ismael's Ghosts
2017
as Le médecin soins intensifs
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, pr...
The Poisoning Angel
2017
as Anne Jégado
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 si...
Looking for Her
2016
as Mme Kubiak
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 a...
My Friend Victoria
2014
as Elena Savinet
Victoria, a little black girl aged 8 from a humble background, happens to spend the night with the bourgeois family of Thomas, one of her classmates. ...
The Desert of Love
2012
as Lucie Courrèges
A doctor and his son fall in love for the same woman, who has lost her child.
The Monk
2011
as Elvire
A virtuous monk descends to the depths of sin and depravity after Satan sends an unholy temptress to lead him astray.
Bowing Out
2011
as Rose
Simon, a depressed hitman, tries to hang himself in a forest. Bernard, a young man with no history who passes by by chance, saves him. The old man, si...
Family Tree
2010
as Françoise
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his ...
The Other Dumas
2010
as Caroline Maquet
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 ...
In Your Arms
2009
as Adrienne
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 h...
Two Worlds
2007
as The librarian
A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.
Madame Irma
2006
as Brigitte Gillon
Francis, who is in his forties, manages the French subsidiary of an American high-tech company. But the shareholders suddenly decide to close it. Depr...
A Summer Day
2006
as Mickaël's mother
The sudden death of a teenager during a soccer match puts a small community completely off-balance.
Writer of O
2005
as Young Dominique Aury
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 hallmar...
Coup de vache
2004
as Yvonne
An old man bequeaths his fortune to a television host, much to the chagrin of his own family.
Our Dream Lives
2004
as Mathilde Tassin
Bénédicte, Martine, and Juliette were classmates who formed an inseparable trio. Fifteen years later, Bénédicte and Martine return to their small nati...
Nature contre nature
2004
as Ms. Oudinot
Sébastien Chantoux, a psychoanalyst, decides to move to the Creuse. Adapting little by little to the local customs, he joined "Troc'en Creuse", an ass...
She's One of Us
2003
as Patricia
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 se...
Small Cuts
2003
as Anne
Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his political...
The Repentant
2002
as Alice, das Zimmermädchen
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...
Love Street
2002
as Lena
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
The Pornographer
2001
as Olivia Rochet
A former porn director, who once elevated the genre with 1960s counter-culture ideals, returns to filmmaking after 20 years, clashing with his produce...
Hors Service
2001
as The accountant
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 ...
Du côté des filles
2001
as Catherine
A suburban pavilion, garden gnomes, a bloody scene. Break between Fred and Liza. As happiness never comes alone, Carole, emerges, announces to Liza th...
J'ai tué Clémence Acéra
2001
as Inspector Woland
A man's wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life.
Mortal Transfer
2001
as The maths teacher
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 be...
Sentimental Destinies
2000
as Fernande
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He ...
La danse des asperges sarrasines
2000
as (voice)
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...
Whatever
1999
as La psychologue
It is a story of a depressed, isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job.
My Little Business
1999
as Lucie
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 i...
Late August, Early September
1999
as Attachée parlementaire
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
Le blanc à lunettes
1995
as Henriette
Bonsoir
1994
as Eugénie
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 himse...
If the Sun Never Returns
1987
as Isabelle Antide
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...
Thérèse
1986
as Thérèse
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...