Macha Méril
Born: 1940-09-03 in Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2026
- Vieillir et jouir sans entraves as Self - Actress / Writer
2024
- Les Boules de Noël as Simone
- Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema as Self - Actress
2023
- Enquête parallèle as Colette Chaperot
- Godard Cinema as Self
2022
2021
2020
- Belle belle belle as Lili
2019
- The Unexpected Child as Christine
2018
- Cannes 1968, révolution au palais as Self
- Françoise Dorléac, une promesse as Self
2017
- Mr. Stein Goes Online as Marie
- Albatros, The Film Adventure Of The White Russians In Paris as (voice)
2016
- Alliances rouge sang as Béatrice
2015
- Folie passagère as Self
2014
- La Trouvaille de Juliette as Juliette
2012
- Happiness Never Comes Alone as Fanfan Keller
- Ten Minutes from Naturists as Suzy Dulac, tante de Patrick
- 3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race as Alice Fabre (old)
- Seasons of Love as Henriette Marcenat
2011
- The Nights of Alice as Bettina
2008
- Guy Gilles as Self
2007
- René Bousquet ou le grand arrangement as Évelyne Baylet
2006
- On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
- Mademoiselle Gigi as Mamita
2004
- Clochemerle as Baroness Alphonsine de Courtebiche
2003
- Bel-Ami as Mme Madeleine Forestier / Mme du Roy de Cantel
- Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments as Self - Interviewee
- Belle grand mère, La Trattoria as Joséphine, dite « Babou »
2001
- Méditerranée as Carla Valbonne
2000
- Le sciamane as Claudia's mother
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries as Madame Beauvier
- Belle Grand-Mère as Babou
1997
- Joséphine, Guardian Angel as Tania
1996
- A Crucial Test as Catherine
1995
- Son of Gascogne as Self
1994
- Délit mineur as Madeleine
1993
- To Remember as Narrator
- Berlin '39 as Madame Vic
- L'éternel mari as Claudia
- Le Don as Margherita
1992
- Double Vision as Mrs. Perfect
- Fish Soup as Caterina
1991
- Meeting Venus as Miss Malikoff
- The Cocottes as Mme Rose
- A Simple Story as La vedova del Roccella
1989
- Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin as Tatiana
- La Vouivre as La rodinet
1986
- Lance et Compte as Maroussia Lambert
- Duet for One as Anya
- Follow My Gaze as La femme à l'ouvre boîte
1985
- Télématin as Self
- Vagabond as Madame Landier
- Au nom de tous les miens as Mère de Martin
- Colette as Colette
- The Chicks as Françoise
- Les Rois du gag as Jacqueline
1984
- Wild Animals as Sylvia
1983
- Deadly Circuit as Madeleine Beauvoir
- Le Grand Carnaval as Mme Armande Labrouche
- For Those I Loved as Martin's Mother
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Le Crime d'amour as Jeanne Bontemps / Odette Dumont
- L'Apprentissage de la ville as Luc's mother
1981
- Beau Pere as la Maîtresse de maison
- Bolero as Magda Kremer
- Le rose di Danzica as Elvira
- Le bonheur des tristes as Madeleine
1980
- Tender Cousins as Mère de Julien
1979
- Morte a passo di valzer as Lady Flora Drayton
- La promessa as Signora Heller
- Le rose di Danzica as Elvira von Lehner
- Night of The Flowers as Macha
1978
- Your Turn, My Turn as Marianne
- Rock 'n Roll as Annalisa
- Tanto va la gatta al lardo... as Vera
- Robert et Robert as Agathe
- Ridendo e scherzando as Susy
1977
- Chinese Roulette as Traunitz
- A Second Hand Lady as Clelia, la madre di Simona
- Ride bene... chi ride ultimo as principessa Esmeralda Benti Contini
- Emmenez-moi au Ritz as Barbara
- Pasión as Bianca
1976
- Peccatori di provincia as Vincenzina Lo Curcio
- Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe as baronessa Valeria Lamia
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Deep Red as Helga Ulmann
- Late Night Trains as The Lady on the Train
- Son tornate a fiorire le rose as Linda De Simone
- The Last Day of School Before Christmas as Egle
- Il registratore as Ms. Collins
- The Man of the Winds as Anna
1974
- Chinese In Paris as Madeleine
- Amore mio non farmi male as Linda De Simone
1972
- We Won't Grow Old Together as Françoise
1971
- We Are All in Temporary Liberty as Gisella, wife of Mario De Rossi
1970
- Conjugal Love as Leda
1969
- Pigsty ... (Co-Producer)
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
- Rampage at Apache Wells as Lizzy
1964
- The Married Woman as Charlotte
- Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc as Nicole
- Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise as Nicole
- The Little Misses as Caroline
1963
- Sweet and Sour as La striptisiste
- Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? as Jacqueline Edwards
1962
- Love on a Pillow as Raphaële
- Sign of the Lion as La Blonde du 14 Juillet (uncredited)
- Adorable Liar as Sophie
1960
- The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries as Countess Janine St. Alyre
- The Itchy Palm as Yvette