Marthe Keller (born 28 January 1945) is a Swiss actress and opera director. She is perhaps best known for her role in the film Marathon Man (1976), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
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Keller 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 Theater and the Berliner Ensemble. Keller has one son, Alexandre (born 1971), from her relationship with director Philippe de Broca.
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).
Keller’s 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 on Black Sunday (1977).