

Acting
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...
Highest rated appearances

Family Resemblances
as La mère

TOC TOC
as Marie

The City of Silences
as Muriel

La Cage aux Folles
as Simone Deblon

The Little Wheedlers
as La mère de Sophie

Le Rabat-joie
as Armance Dupon

Les Filles
as Paula

Le Cœur sous le paillasson
as Lise

Impossible Is Not French
as Mauricette Brisset, l'épouse de Louis

The Hostage Gang
as Nelly Cerutti

Cash-Cash
as Caroline Sinclair

La Brune que voilà
as Christine

A Very Curious Girl
as Irène

When the Pheasants Pass
as Micheline Camus

Angelique: The Road to Versailles
as Ninon de Lenclos

Don Quijote
as Die Herzogin

Requiem pour un caïd
as Jeannette Sorel

My Wife's Husband
as Christiane Colombey

Sweet Ecstasy
as Claire

Les Livreurs
as Bédélia

Daniella by Night
as Esmerelda

Desperate Flight
as Marina Larsen

Rendezvous
as Claire Médina-Etiévant

A Mistress for the Summer
as Viviane

Take Me As I Am
as June Chalmers

The 400 Blows
as Gilberte Doinel

Back to the Wall
as Ghislaine

La Parisienne
as Caroline Herblay

Tonight the Skirts Fly
as Le mannequin espagnol

The Adventures of Gil Blas
as Paquita

La belle de Cadix
as Alexandrine Dupont

Les vacances finissent demain

A Caprice of Darling Caroline
as Jeannette, Caroline's chambermaid

Rayés des vivants
as A girl

This Rascal of Anatole
as Germaine de la Boëtie