Claire Maurier
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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. Source: Article "Claire Maurier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Credits
Amélie (2001)
as Suzanne
The 400 Blows (1959)
as Gilberte Doinel
Side Roads (1983)
as Marthe
Paris Express (2010)
as L'experte
La Cage aux Folles (1978)
as Simone Deblon
TOC TOC (2008)
as Marie
Desperate Flight (1961)
as Marina Larsen
My Wife's Husband (1963)
as Christiane Colombey
The Birch-Tree Meadow (2003)
as Ginette
Don Quijote (1965)
as Die Herzogin
Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965)
as Ninon de Lenclos
Cash-Cash (1971)
as Caroline Sinclair
The Little Wheedlers (1978)
as La mère de Sophie
My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
as La mère
La Berlue (1986)
as Mathilde
Family Resemblances (1996)
as La mère
The City of Silences (1979)
as Muriel
La Parisienne (1957)
as Caroline Herblay
Les Deux Vieilles Dames et l'accordeur (2001)
Actor
La belle de Cadix (1953)
as Alexandrine Dupont
Les Filles (1977)
as Paula
Back to the Wall (1958)
as Ghislaine
Le Rabat-joie (1978)
as Armance Dupon
The Hostage Gang (1973)
as Nelly Cerutti
Appelez-moi Fouks (1986)
as Stella
When the Pheasants Pass (1965)
as Micheline Camus
Les vacances finissent demain (1953)
Actor
A Very Curious Girl (1969)
as Irène
Le Cœur sous le paillasson (1976)
as Lise
Granny boom (2006)
as Grand-mère
A Bad Son (1980)
as Madeleine
This Rascal of Anatole (1952)
as Germaine de la Boëtie
L'Amant de Bornéo (1981)
as Régine
Ambitious (2007)
as Mme Zahn
La vie est trop courte (1984)
as Cécile
Daniella by Night (1961)
as Esmerelda
Family Hero (2006)
as Colette
La Guerre du Royal Palace (2012)
as Hortense Verdier
Rayés des vivants (1952)
as A girl
A Mistress for the Summer (1960)
as Viviane
Requiem pour un caïd (1964)
as Jeannette Sorel
Tonight the Skirts Fly (1956)
as Le mannequin espagnol
Impossible Is Not French (1974)
as Mauricette Brisset, l'épouse de Louis
Take Me As I Am (1960)
as June Chalmers
The Car Keys (2003)
as Old Lady in Park
Man of My Life (1999)
as Nelly
Rendezvous (1960)
as Claire Médina-Etiévant
La Brune que voilà (1970)
as Christine
Vous habitez chez vos parents ? (1983)
as Alice Martell
Sweet Ecstasy (1962)
as Claire
La Vie d'artiste (2007)
as l'agent d'Alice
Blanche and Marie (1985)
as Neighbor (uncredited)
A Caprice of Darling Caroline (1953)
as Jeannette, Caroline's chambermaid
Les Livreurs (1961)
as Bédélia
The Adventures of Gil Blas (1956)
as Paquita