Name
Claire Maurier
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1929-03-27
Deathday
2026-05-03 (97 years old)
Place of Birth
Ceret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Biography
Claire Maurier (born 27 March 1929 - 3 May 2026 ) was a French actress who appeared in more than 90 films since 1947.
Maurier was born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon in the French commune of Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region, southwest of France.
She started her acting career in small film roles at the end of the 1940s. Her first 'main' role came when she portrayed Gilberte Doinel, the mother of the main character in François Truffaut's 1959 film The 400 Blows. Another notable early role of hers was as Christiane Colombey, the bigamist wife of the main character in the 1963 film La Cuisine au beurre.
In 1978, she had a notable role in Édouard Molinaro's film La Cage aux Folles as Simone. In 1981, she was nominated the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for A Bad Son. She played Madeleine, a seductive older woman.
In 2001, she gained international recognition when she starred as Mme. Suzanne, the owner of the Café des 2 Moulins, the Montmartre bistro where the titular character Amélie Poulain works as a waitress in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain). The film became the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States. The film won four César Awards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards. In 2005, she starred as Maryse Berthelot in the French comedy series Faites comme chez vous!.
In 2010, she played the neglectful mother of Gérard Dépardieu's character Germain in Jean Becker's film My Afternoons with Margueritte.
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- 1959 The 400 Blows as Gilberte Doinel
- 2001 Amélie as Suzanne
- 1978 La Cage aux Folles as Simone Deblon
- 1985 Blanche and Marie as Neighbor (uncredited)
- 1978 Le Rabat-joie as Armance Dupon
- 1996 Family Resemblances as La mère
- 1980 A Bad Son as Madeleine
- 1960 Take Me As I Am as June Chalmers
- 2010 My Afternoons with Margueritte as La mère
- 1969 A Very Curious Girl as Irène
- 1963 My Wife's Husband as Christiane Colombey
- 2003 The Car Keys as Old lady in the park
- 1965 When the Pheasants Pass as Micheline Camus
- 2007 Ambitious as Mme Zahn
- 1952 This Rascal of Anatole as Germaine de la Boëtie
- 2006 Family Hero as Colette
- 1952 Rayés des vivants as A girl
- 2007 La Vie d'artiste as l'agent d'Alice
- 1953 A Caprice of Darling Caroline as Jeannette, Caroline's chambermaid
- 1958 Back to the Wall as Ghislaine
- 1953 La belle de Cadix as Alexandrine Dupont
- 2008 TOC TOC as Marie
- 1971 Cash-Cash as Caroline Sinclair
- 1965 Angelique: The Road to Versailles as Ninon de Lenclos
- 1983 Vous habitez chez vos parents ? as Alice Martell
- 1953 Les vacances finissent demain
- 1973 The Hostage Gang as Nelly Cerutti
- 1961 Daniella by Night as Esmerelda
- 1956 The Adventures of Gil Blas as Paquita
- 1961 Les Livreurs as Bédélia
- 1962 Sweet Ecstasy as Claire
- 1964 Requiem pour un caïd as Jeannette Sorel
- 1960 A Mistress for the Summer as Viviane
- 2010 Paris Express as L'experte
- 1957 La Parisienne as Caroline Herblay
- 1983 Side Roads as Marthe
- 1979 The City of Silences as Muriel
- 1986 La Berlue as Mathilde
- 1976 Le Cœur sous le paillasson as Lise
- 1984 La vie est trop courte as Cécile
- 1977 Les Filles as Paula
- 1981 L'Amant de Bornéo as Régine
- 1970 La Brune que voilà as Christine
- 2012 La Guerre du Royal Palace as Hortense Verdier
- 1960 Rendezvous as Claire Médina-Etiévant
- 1961 Desperate Flight as Marina Larsen
- 1974 Impossible Is Not French as Mauricette Brisset, l'épouse de Louis
- 2003 The Birch-Tree Meadow as Ginette
- 1965 Don Quijote as Die Herzogin
- 1956 Tonight the Skirts Fly as Le mannequin espagnol
- 2001 Les Deux Vieilles Dames et l'accordeur
- 1986 Appelez-moi Fouks as Stella
- 2006 Granny boom as Grand-mère
- 1999 Man of My Life as Nelly
- 1978 The Little Wheedlers as La mère de Sophie
- 1966 At Theatre Tonight ( 1 episode ) as Christine
- 1981 Pause-café ( 6 episodes ) as Mme le proviseur du L.E.P.
- 1975 Midi Première ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2013 La Famille Katz ( 6 episodes ) as Milly Cohen
- 1966 Vive la vie ( 145 episodes ) as Esther
- 1965 Don Quijote von der Mancha ( 4 episodes ) as Die Herzogin / la duchesse
- 1988 Loft story ( 42 episodes ) as Suzy
- 1958 Les Cinq Dernières Minutes ( 1 episode ) as Jeanne Vermont
- 1956 Les Énigmes de l'Histoire ( 9 episodes )
- 1971 Quentin Durward ( 7 episodes ) as Marion
