Claire Maurier
Acting
Born 1929-03-27
Died 2026-05-03
Ceret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
Midi Première
Amélie
At Theatre Tonight
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
The 400 Blows
Pause-café
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
Quentin Durward
Vive la vie
Les Filles
La Cage aux Folles
Rayés des vivants
My Afternoons with Margueritte
Paris Express
La Parisienne
Le Cœur sous le paillasson
My Wife's Husband
Cash-Cash
Don Quijote
The Little Wheedlers
The Car Keys
La vie est trop courte
Desperate Flight
Loft story
A Very Curious Girl
Don Quijote von der Mancha
A Bad Son
Family Resemblances
La Berlue
La Famille Katz
TOC TOC
Back to the Wall
A Caprice of Darling Caroline
La belle de Cadix
The City of Silences
La Vie d'artiste
La Guerre du Royal Palace
Family Hero
This Rascal of Anatole
Impossible Is Not French
Take Me As I Am
The Birch-Tree Meadow
Sweet Ecstasy
Ambitious
Side Roads
L'Amant de Bornéo
Appelez-moi Fouks
Tonight the Skirts Fly
Requiem pour un caïd
Le Rabat-joie
The Hostage Gang
When the Pheasants Pass
Daniella by Night
Granny boom
Vous habitez chez vos parents ?
Blanche and Marie
A Mistress for the Summer
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