Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 27, 1929
Died
May 03, 2026
Place of Birth
Ceret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Credits
65 titles
Claire Maurier
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. Source: Article "Claire Maurier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Filmography
La Famille Katz
Milly Cohen
La Guerre du Royal Palace
Hortense Verdier
My Afternoons with Margueritte
La mère
Paris Express
L'experte
TOC TOC
Marie
La Vie d'artiste
l'agent d'Alice
Ambitious
Mme Zahn
Family Hero
Colette
Granny boom
Grand-mère
The Car Keys
Old lady in the park
The Birch-Tree Meadow
Ginette
Les Deux Vieilles Dames et l'accordeur
Amélie
Suzanne
Man of My Life
Nelly
Family Resemblances
La mère
Loft story
Suzy
Appelez-moi Fouks
Stella
La Berlue
Mathilde
Blanche and Marie
Neighbor (uncredited)
La vie est trop courte
Cécile
Side Roads
Marthe
Vous habitez chez vos parents ?
Alice Martell
L'Amant de Bornéo
Régine
Pause-café
Mme le proviseur du L.E.P.
A Bad Son
Madeleine
The City of Silences
Muriel
La Cage aux Folles
Simone Deblon
The Little Wheedlers
La mère de Sophie
Le Rabat-joie
Armance Dupon
Les Filles
Paula
Le Cœur sous le paillasson
Lise
Midi Première
Self
Impossible Is Not French
Mauricette Brisset, l'épouse de Louis
The Hostage Gang
Nelly Cerutti
Cash-Cash
Caroline Sinclair
Quentin Durward
Marion
La Brune que voilà
Christine
A Very Curious Girl
Irène
At Theatre Tonight
Christine
Vive la vie
Esther
Don Quijote von der Mancha
Die Herzogin / la duchesse
When the Pheasants Pass
Micheline Camus
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
Ninon de Lenclos
Don Quijote
Die Herzogin
Requiem pour un caïd
Jeannette Sorel
My Wife's Husband
Christiane Colombey
Sweet Ecstasy
Claire
Les Livreurs
Bédélia
Daniella by Night
Esmerelda
Desperate Flight
Marina Larsen