--- name: "Claire Maurier" canonical: "https://film.one/person/claire-maurier" fi1m_id: "claire-maurier" imdb_id: "nm0561158" tmdb_id: 1654 wikidata_id: "Q2975084" roles: ["Actor"] born: "27 March 1929" died: "3 May 2026" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 86 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-17T17:23:27.605943+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Claire Maurier ## Identity Claire Maurier - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/claire-maurier - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** claire-maurier - **IMDb ID:** nm0561158 - **TMDB ID:** 1654 - **Wikidata ID:** Q2975084 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Maurier, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2975084, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561158/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1654 Actor. Born 27 March 1929 in Ceret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. Died 3 May 2026. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 27 March 1929, Ceret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France - **Died:** 3 May 2026 - **Active:** 1959–2001 - **Also known as:** Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon - **Average Fi1m score:** 86, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 91 (1), 2000s 82 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Maurier, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2975084, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561158/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1654 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*The 400 Blows*](https://film.one/film/the-400-blows.md) (91) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Claire Maurier > Claire Maurier makes an impatient mother recognisably human without asking us to excuse her. We rate the restraint of her work in *The 400 Blows*, though the film gives us too little of Gilberte’s own life. In *The 400 Blows* (1959), Claire Maurier makes a mother’s impatience credible beside a boy’s confusion and defiance. Her Gilberte Doinel is difficult to like, but Maurier resists making her merely hateful. We were unsettled by how ordinary she makes that impatience feel. Alongside Albert Rémy as Julien, she helps keep the adults human while Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Antoine has our sympathy. It is careful supporting work in a film that gives the child far more attention. Gilberte was her first substantial screen role, after small film parts in the late 1940s. The career that followed took her through popular French comedies as well as dramas, with *La Cuisine au beurre* (1963) and *La Cage aux Folles* (1978) among the comedy credits. Recurring collaborators included director Édouard Molinaro, with whom she made five films. Maternal parts became a recurring assignment, but Madeleine, the seductive older woman in *A Bad Son* (1980), offers a useful reminder not to mistake a casting habit for the whole career. Our reservation is with François Truffaut’s treatment of the adults, rather than a failure of feeling in Maurier. We wanted more of their lives away from Antoine, and the film’s closeness to the boy sometimes prevents that. Sympathy for him comes easily; understanding her requires information the film only partly supplies. There is a limit to what a supporting actor can do about that. Giving Gilberte more charm would hardly answer the question of who she is when her son is elsewhere. Later came Suzanne, the café owner in *Amélie* (2001), and a maternal role opposite Gérard Depardieu in *My Afternoons with Margueritte* (2010). Mothers recur in Maurier’s credits, but that should not make Gilberte seem like a routine assignment. Her restraint helps a difficult character remain worth thinking about, even where the writing leaves us wanting more. Start with *The 400 Blows*, but do not watch only the boy. ## Biography Claire Maurier was a French actress. Born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon on 27 March 1929 in Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, she appeared in more than 90 films between 1947 and 2013. She died on 3 May 2026. She trained at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux and began her stage career in the early 1950s. Her film roles include Gilberte Doinel in François Truffaut's *The 400 Blows* (1959), Simone Deblon in *La Cage aux Folles* (1978), and Suzanne in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's *Amélie* (2001). She received a César Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Madeleine in *A Bad Son* (1980). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, themoviedb.org.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Amélie* (2001), Fi1m 82, as Suzanne — [page](https://film.one/film/amelie.md) - *The 400 Blows* (1959), Fi1m 91, as Gilberte Doinel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-400-blows.md) ## Complete filmography (64) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *La Famille Katz* (2013), series, as Milly Cohen - *La Guerre du Royal Palace* (2012), as Hortense Verdier - *My Afternoons with Margueritte* (2010), as La mère - *Paris Express* (2010), as L'experte - *TOC TOC* (2008), as Marie - *La Vie d'artiste* (2007), as l'agent d'Alice - *Ambitious* (2007), as Mme Zahn - *Family Hero* (2006), as Colette - *Granny boom* (2006), as Grand-mère - *The Car Keys* (2003), as Old Lady in Park - *The Birch-Tree Meadow* (2003), as Ginette - *Les Deux Vieilles Dames et l'accordeur* (2001), Actor - *Amélie* (2001), as Suzanne — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/amelie.md) - *Man of My Life* (1999), as Nelly - *Family Resemblances* (1996), as La mère - *Loft story* (1988), series, as Suzy - *Appelez-moi Fouks* (1986), as Stella - *La Berlue* (1986), as Mathilde - *Blanche and Marie* (1985), as Neighbor (uncredited) - *La vie est trop courte* (1984), as Cécile - *Side Roads* (1983), as Marthe - *Vous habitez chez vos parents ?* (1983), as Alice Martell - *L'Amant de Bornéo* (1981), as Régine - *Pause-café* (1981), series, as Mme le proviseur du L.E.P. - *A Bad Son* (1980), as Madeleine - *The City of Silences* (1979), as Muriel - *La Cage aux Folles* (1978), as Simone Deblon - *The Little Wheedlers* (1978), as La mère de Sophie - *Le Rabat-joie* (1978), as Armance Dupon - *Les Filles* (1977), as Paula - *Le Cœur sous le paillasson* (1976), as Lise - *Impossible Is Not French* (1974), as Mauricette Brisset, l'épouse de Louis - *The Hostage Gang* (1973), as Nelly Cerutti - *Cash-Cash* (1971), as Caroline Sinclair - *Quentin Durward* (1971), series, as Marion - *La Brune que voilà* (1970), as Christine - *A Very Curious Girl* (1969), as Irène - *At Theatre Tonight* (1966), series, as Christine - *Vive la vie* (1966), series, as Esther - *Don Quijote von der Mancha* (1965), series, as Die Herzogin / la duchesse - *When the Pheasants Pass* (1965), as Micheline Camus - *Angelique: The Road to Versailles* (1965), as Ninon de Lenclos - *Don Quijote* (1965), as Die Herzogin - *Requiem pour un caïd* (1964), as Jeannette Sorel - *My Wife's Husband* (1963), as Christiane Colombey - *Sweet Ecstasy* (1962), as Claire - *Les Livreurs* (1961), as Bédélia - *Daniella by Night* (1961), as Esmerelda - *Desperate Flight* (1961), as Marina Larsen - *Rendezvous* (1960), as Claire Médina-Etiévant - *A Mistress for the Summer* (1960), as Viviane - *Take Me As I Am* (1960), as June Chalmers - *The 400 Blows* (1959), as Gilberte Doinel — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/the-400-blows.md) - *Back to the Wall* (1958), as Ghislaine - *Les Cinq Dernières Minutes* (1958), series, as Jeanne Vermont - *La Parisienne* (1957), as Caroline Herblay - *Tonight the Skirts Fly* (1956), as Le mannequin espagnol - *Les Énigmes de l'Histoire* (1956), series, Actor - *The Adventures of Gil Blas* (1956), as Paquita - *La belle de Cadix* (1953), as Alexandrine Dupont - *Les vacances finissent demain* (1953), Actor - *A Caprice of Darling Caroline* (1953), as Jeannette, Caroline's chambermaid - *Rayés des vivants* (1952), as A girl - *This Rascal of Anatole* (1952), as Germaine de la Boëtie --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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