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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Midi Première — Self