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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1940-09-03 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]

Macha Méril

Biography:

Macha Méril, born Princess Maria-Magdalena Vladimirovna Gagarina on 3 September 1940, Rabat, Morocco, is a French actress and writer, descended by her father from the Russian princely house Gagarin and by her mother from a Ukrainian noble family. She has appeared in 119 films between 1959 and 2007, including roles in films directed by Jean-Luc Godard (Une femme mariée, 1964), Luis Buñuel (Belle de jour, 1967) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Chinese Roulette, 1976). She also played in the Quebec series Lance et Compte.

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Known For

Acting

2024

2023

Enquête parallèle as Colette Chaperot

2022

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2012

Ten Minutes from Naturists as Suzy Dulac, tante de Patrick
Seasons of Love as Henriette Marcenat

2011

2008

2007

2006

2004

Clochemerle as Baroness Alphonsine de Courtebiche

2003

Bel-Ami as Mme Madeleine Forestier / Mme du Roy de Cantel
Belle grand mère, La Trattoria as Joséphine, dite « Babou »

2001

2000

Le sciamane as Claudia's mother

1999

1998

1997

1996

A Crucial Test as Catherine

1995

1994

1993

Le Don as Margherita
Berlin '39 as Madame Vic
L'éternel mari as Claudia
To Remember as Narrator

1992

Fish Soup as Caterina
Double Vision as Mrs. Perfect

1991

Meeting Venus as Miss Malikoff
The Cocottes as Mme. Rose
A Simple Story as La vedova del Roccella

1989

La Vouivre as La rodinet

1986

Follow My Gaze as La femme à l'ouvre boîte
Duet for One as Anya
Lance et Compte as Maroussia Lambert

1985

Vagabond as Mme Landier
Les Rois du gag as Jacqueline
The Chicks as Françoise
Télématin as Self
Au nom de tous les miens as Mère de Martin

1984

Wild Animals as Sylvia

1983

Deadly Circuit as Madeleine
For Those I Loved as Martin's Mother
Le Grand Carnaval as Mme Armande Labrouche

1982

Le Crime d'amour as Jeanne Bontemps / Odette Dumont

1981

Beau Pere as la Maîtresse de maison
Bolero as Magda Kremer

1980

Tender Cousins as Mère de Julien

1979

Le rose di Danzica as Elvira von Lehner
La promessa as Signora Heller
Morte a passo di valzer as Lady Flora Drayton

1978

Your Turn, My Turn as Marianne
Rock 'n Roll as Annalisa

1977

Chinese Roulette as Traunitz
Pasión as Bianca
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo as principessa Esmeralda Benti Contini
Una donna di seconda mano as Clelia, la madre di Simona

1976

Peccatori di provincia as Vincenzina Lo Curcio

1975

Late Night Trains as The Lady on the Train
Il registratore as Ms. Collins
Deep Red as Helga Ulmann

1974

Chinese In Paris as Madeleine

1972

1971

1970

1968

Wall Engravings as Jeanne Delaître
Don't Play with Martians as Maryvonne Guéguen

1967

Belle de Jour as Renée
Horizon as Elisa

1966

The Defector as Frieda Hoffmann
Pop Age as Self

1965

Dim Dam Dom as Self

1964

The Married Woman as Charlotte
The Little Misses as Caroline

1963

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? as Jacqueline Edwards
Sweet and Sour as La striptisiste

1962

Adorable Liar as Sophie
Love on a Pillow as Raphaële
Sign of the Lion as La Blonde du 14 Juillet (uncredited)

1960

The Itchy Palm as Yvette

Production

1969

Pigsty as Co-Producer

1968

Wall Engravings as Producer