Claire Maurier
| Claire Maurier | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon March 27, 1929 Céret, France |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1947–present |
Claire Maurier (born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon; March 27, 1929) is a César Award-winning French actress. She has appeared in more than ninety 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 south-west 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 Doniel, 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 .
In 1978, she had a notable role in Édouard Molinaro's film La Cage aux Folles, as Simone. In 1981, she won the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for A Bad Son. She played Madeleine, a seductive yet old 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 went on to become 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 .
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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