Macha Méril
Acting
Biography
Princess Maria-Magdalena Vladimirovna Gagarina (born 3 September 1940), known by her stage name Macha Méril, is a French actress and writer. Méril is descended by her father from the Russian princely house Gagarin and by her mother from a Ukrainian noble family. She appeared in 125 films between 1959 and 2012, including films directed by Jean-Luc Godard (A Married Woman / Une femme mariée), Luis Buñuel (Belle de jour), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Chinese Roulette). She also appeared in the Quebec television series Lance et Compte. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Helga Ulmann in Dario Argento's Deep Red and in Aldo Lado's Night Train Murders (1975). Description above from the Wikipedia article Macha Méril,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: September 3, 1940
Place of Birth: Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]
Known For
The Unexpected Getaway
In each episode, 3 celebrities who have never met go on a 24-hour break in the countryside. A moment out of time to meet and talk about love, friendship, life with its obstacles and surprises.
Queen Lear – Die Leben der Amanda Lear
She is one of the most mysterious icons of the pop world; fame at any price was always her credo: Amanda Lear. She became Salvador Dalí's muse at an early age and had relationships with musicians such as Bryan Ferry, David Bowie and Brian Jones. She developed as a model, painter, writer, singer and androgynous disco queen. "Queen Lear" tells the story of her many lives.
Bel-Ami
Belle Grand-Mère
Joséphine (aka Babou) and Grégoire (aka Pacha) live peacefully with their daughters and grandchildren. This gentle life is about to be disrupted by the unexpected return of their son Thibault, who has been living in Brazil for several years…
Enquête parallèle
Deep Red
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard.
Wall Engravings
Jeanne looks back on her love for Jean. The melancholic young man wouldn't accept the world as it was, always wishing to depart. She doesn't know that he's dead.
Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin
The Return of Arsène Lupin (1989) is a French crime television series consisting of 12 episodes, each approximately 55 minutes long, broadcast on FR3 between November 1989 and January 1990. It features the famous gentleman thief created by Maurice Leblanc, played here by François Dunoyer, in a more mischievous and modern interpretation than his predecessors, which retains the hero's refinement and intelligence while immersing him in stories with international overtones, with a more contemporary tone for the late 1980s.
Vagabond
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
Filmography
as Self - Actress / Writer
as Simone
as Self - Actress
as Colette Chaperot
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Louise
as Lili
as Christine
as Marie
as Béatrice
as Self
as Juliette
as Alice Fabre (old)
as Fanfan Keller
as Suzy Dulac, tante de Patrick
as Henriette Marcenat
as Bettina
as Self
as Évelyne Baylet
as Self - Guest
as Mamita
as Baroness Alphonsine de Courtebiche
as Mme Madeleine Forestier / Mme du Roy de Cantel
as Joséphine, dite « Babou »
as Self - Interviewee
as Carla Valbonne
as Claudia's mother
as Babou
as Self
as Madame Beauvier
as Tania
as Catherine
as Self
as Madeleine
as Narrator
as Madame Vic
as Claudia
as Mrs. Perfect
as Caterina
as Miss Malikoff
as La vedova del Roccella
as Mme. Rose
as Tatiana
as La rodinet
as Anya
as Maroussia Lambert
as La femme à l'ouvre boîte
as Mme Landier
as Colette
as Jacqueline
as Mère de Martin
as Françoise
as Self
as Sylvia
as Mme Armande Labrouche
as Martin's Mother
as Madeleine Beauvoir
as Jeanne Bontemps / Odette Dumont
as Self
as Luc's mother
as Madeleine
as la Maîtresse de maison
as Magda Kremer
as Mère de Julien
as Signora Heller
as Elvira von Lehner
as Lady Flora Drayton
as Macha
as Annalisa
as Susy
as Agathe
as Marianne
as Clelia, la madre di Simona
as Barbara
as principessa Esmeralda Benti Contini
as Traunitz
as Bianca
as baronessa Valeria Lamia
as Vincenzina Lo Curcio
as Linda De Simone
as Ms. Collins
as Anna
as The Lady on the Train
as Helga Ulmann
as Self
as Linda De Simone
as Madeleine
as Françoise
as Gisella, wife of Mario De Rossi
as Leda
as Maryvonne Guéguen
as Jeanne Delaître
as Renée
as Elisa
as Frieda Hoffmann
as Self
as Lizzy
as Self
as Charlotte
as Caroline
as Jacqueline Edwards
as La striptisiste
as Raphaële
as La Blonde du 14 Juillet (uncredited)
as Sophie
as Yvette