Claire Maurier
Known For
Acting
Born
1929-03-27 in Ceret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Biography
Claire Maurier (born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon; March 27, 1929) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 90 films since 1947. Maurier was born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon on March 27, 1929 in the French commune of Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region, which is in the 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. Source: Article "Claire Maurier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Most Known For
Midi Première
as Self
Amélie
as Suzanne
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
as Jeanne Vermont
At Theatre Tonight
as Christine
Loft story
as Suzy
Cash-Cash
as Caroline Sinclair
Paris Express
as L'experte
Don Quijote
as Die Herzogin
Pause-café
as Mme le proviseur du L.E.P.
The 400 Blows
as Gilberte Doinel
Vive la vie
as Esther
La Cage aux Folles
as Simone Deblon
My Afternoons with Margueritte
as La mère
Quentin Durward
as Marion
La Berlue
as Mathilde
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
as Ninon de Lenclos
Family Resemblances
as La mère
La Parisienne
as Caroline Herblay
Side Roads
as Marthe
A Very Curious Girl
as Irène