Claire Maurier

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.

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Midi Première

Self

Amélie

Suzanne

Vous habitez chez vos parents ?

Alice Martell

Family Resemblances

The mother

Requiem pour un caïd

Jeannette Sorel

Angelique: The Road To Versailles

Ninon de Lenclos

La Guerre du Royal Palace

Hortense Verdier

The 400 Blows

Gilberte Doinel

Sweet Ecstasy

Claire

At Theatre Tonight

Christine

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

Jeanne Vermont

La Parisienne

Caroline Herblay

Rendezvous

Claire Médina-Etiévant

La Cage aux Folles

Simone Deblon

Take Me As I Am

June Chalmers

Vive la vie

Esther

Don Quijote

Die Herzogin

The Car Keys

Old lady in the park

Back to the Wall

Ghislaine

La Berlue

Mathilde

My Afternoons with Margueritte

La mère

A Bad Son

Madeleine

Tonight the Skirts Fly

Le mannequin espagnol

Paris Express

L'experte

A Very Curious Girl

Irène

TOC TOC

Marie

When the Pheasants Pass

Micheline Camus

Le Cœur sous le paillasson

Lise

Blanche and Marie

Neighbor (uncredited)

Daniella by Night

Esmerelda

Cash-Cash

Caroline Sinclair

Impossible Is Not French

Mauricette, la femme de Louis

Family Hero

Colette

La Vie d'artiste

l'agent d'Alice

The Hostage Gang

Nelly Cerutti

The Adventures of Gil Blas

Paquita

La vie est trop courte

Cécile

Les Deux Vieilles Dames et l'accordeur

Rayés des vivants

A girl

This Rascal of Anatole

Germaine de la Boëtie

A Mistress for the Summer

Viviane

A Caprice of Darling Caroline

Jeannette, Caroline's chambermaid

My Wife's Husband

Christiane Colombey

Pause-café

Mme le proviseur du L.E.P.

Appelez-moi Fouks

Stella

Don Quijote von der Mancha

Die Herzogin / la duchesse

La Famille Katz

Milly Cohen

Les vacances finissent demain

Desperate Flight

Marina Larsen

Ambitious

Mme Zahn

The Birch-Tree Meadow

Ginette

Énigmes de l'histoire

La belle de Cadix

Alexandrine Dupont

The City of Silences

Muriel

La Brune que voilà