Claire Maurier
Born March 27, 1929 · Ceret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
1
Films reviewed
8.3
Avg. rating
Amélie
Best-reviewed
2001
Years active
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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Selected Filmography
- Midi Première(1975)TV Series · 1 epas Self
- At Theatre Tonight(1966)TV Series · 1 epas Christine
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes(1958)TV Series · 1 epas Jeanne Vermont
- The 400 Blows(1959)as Gilberte Doinel
- Pause-café(1981)TV Series · 6 epsas Mme le proviseur du L.E.P.
- Quentin Durward(1971)TV Series · 7 epsas Marion
- Angelique: The Road to Versailles(1965)as Ninon de Lenclos
- La Cage aux Folles(1978)as Simone Deblon
- Vive la vie(1966)TV Series · 145 epsas Esther
- My Afternoons with Margueritte(2010)as La mère
- Les Énigmes de l'Histoire(1956)TV Series · 9 eps
- A Very Curious Girl(1969)as Irène
- Don Quijote von der Mancha(1965)TV Series · 4 epsas Die Herzogin / la duchesse
- Loft story(1988)TV Series · 42 epsas Suzy
- Paris Express(2010)as L'experte
- La Parisienne(1957)as Caroline Herblay
- Family Resemblances(1996)as La mère
- A Bad Son(1980)as Madeleine
- My Wife's Husband(1963)as Christiane Colombey
- Back to the Wall(1958)as Ghislaine