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
2024
- Les Boules de Noël as Simone
- Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema as Self - Actress
2023
- Godard Cinema as Self
- Enquête parallèle as Colette Chaperot
2022
- The Unexpected Getaway as Self
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
- Queen Lear – Die Leben der Amanda Lear as Self
- Michel Legrand, enchanted music
- Michel Legrand, la musique enchantée as Self
2021
- La Dernière Partie as Louise
2020
- Belle belle belle as Lili
2019
- The Unexpected Child as Christine
2018
- 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
- Seasons of Love as Henriette Marcenat
- 3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race as Alice Fabre (old)
- Ten Minutes from Naturists as Suzy Dulac, tante de Patrick
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
- Belle grand mère, La Trattoria as Joséphine, dite « Babou »
- Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments as Self - Interviewee
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
- Berlin '39 as Madame Vic
- To Remember as Narrator
- Le Don as Margherita
- L'éternel mari as Claudia
1992
- Double Vision as Mrs. Perfect
- Fish Soup as Caterina
1991
- The Cocottes as Mme. Rose
- Meeting Venus as Miss Malikoff
- A Simple Story as La vedova del Roccella
1989
- La Vouivre as La rodinet
- Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin as Tatiana
1986
- Lance et Compte as Maroussia Lambert
- Follow My Gaze as La femme à l'ouvre boîte
- Duet for one as Anya
1985
- Télématin as Self
- Vagabond as Mme Landier
- The Chicks as Françoise
- Les Rois du gag as Jacqueline
- Au nom de tous les miens as Mère de Martin
- Colette as Colette
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 bonheur des tristes as Madeleine
1980
- Tender Cousins as Mère de Julien
1979
- Night of The Flowers as Macha
- La promessa as Signora Heller
- Morte a passo di valzer as Lady Flora Drayton
- Le rose di Danzica as Elvira von Lehner
1978
- Robert et Robert as Agathe
- Rock 'n Roll as Annalisa
- Tanto va la gatta al lardo... as Vera
- Ridendo e scherzando as Susy
- Your Turn, My Turn as Marianne
1977
- Chinese Roulette as Traunitz
- Pasión as Bianca
- Emmenez-moi au Ritz as Barbara
- Una donna di seconda mano as Clelia, la madre di Simona
- Ride bene... chi ride ultimo as principessa Esmeralda Benti Contini
1976
- Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe as baronessa Valeria Lamia
- Peccatori di provincia as Vincenzina Lo Curcio
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- The Last Day of School Before Christmas as Egle
- Son tornate a fiorire le rose as Linda De Simone
- Deep Red as Helga Ulmann
- Late Night Trains as The Lady on the Train
- The Man of the Winds as Anna
- Il registratore as Ms. Collins
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
- Don't Play with Martians as Maryvonne Guéguen
- Wall Engravings as Jeanne Delaître
1967
- Belle de Jour as Renée
- Horizon as Elisa
1966
- The Defector as Frieda Hoffmann
- Pop Age as Self
1965
- Rampage at Apache Wells as Lizzy
- Dim Dam Dom as Self
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
- Adorable Liar as Sophie
- Sign of the Lion as La Blonde du 14 Juillet (uncredited)
- Love on a Pillow as Raphaële
1960
- The Itchy Palm as Yvette