Background
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.
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 has appeared in more than ninety films since 1947. 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 Louisiana Cuisine au beurre.
In 1978, she had a notable role in Édouard Molinaro"s film Louisiana Cage aux Folles, as Simone. She played Madeleine, a seductive yet old woman.
In 2001, she gained international recognition when she starred as Madame 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.
In 2005, she starred as Maryse Berthelot in the French comedy series Faites comme chez vous !. In 2010, she played the neglective mother of Gérard Dépardieu"s character Germain in Jean Becker"s film My Afternoons with Margueritte.