Acting
Caroline Cellier
Caroline Cellier (7 August 1945 – 15 December 2020) was a French actress. She appeared in such films as L'année des méduses (Year of the Jellyfish), La vie, l'amour, la mort, and Le Plaisir (et ses petits tracas).
Caroline Cellier, birth name Monique Marie Louise Cellier was born on the 7th of august 1945 in Montpellier, France. At the age of 8 her family moves to Paris. When she's 16 she joins the Cours Simon, one of the most prestigious drama school of the country. She does 2 years only on Thursday afternoon and at age 18 she does 1 full year, everyday going. She starts to play the next year, at only 19. She wins 2 prices for her acting skills. In 1966 she starts playing in the famous "Pygmalion" for more than a year. The play is a succes. After it she starts tv, staring in a few tv shows and then movies like "Que la Bête meure" by Claude Chabrol which came out in 1969. She does both cinema and drama. In 1970 she becames the partner of famous french actor Jean Poiret. He's 19 years older than her, none of them care. She still appear in numerous movies and plays during the 1970's and also give birth to her son, Nicolas Poiret, in november 1978. It's during the 1980's that her acting career is at its highest. She plays in movies such as "Poker" or "Poulet au vinaigre". In 1984 she holds the main supporting role in "L'année des Méduses" a movie by Christopher Frank. She'll win the César (french equivalent to the Oscars) of the best actress in a supporting role for this movie. In 1989 she finally marries Jean Poiret. She also appears a few team in 1990's. In 1991 she's a pr*stit*te in the movie "La Contre-allée" (not a p*rn* at all). In 1992 Jean Poiret makes his first movie, "Le Zèbre" and he takes his wife and Thierry Lhermitte for the main roles. But he'll die 3 months before the releasing of the movie. Caroline did the promotion alone. She isn't much there for a few years. In 1997 she's in "Didier", a famous french comedy. And in 1998 she's Blanche Dubois in "A streetcar named desire", the play by Tennessee Williams for which she's nominated for the Molière (drama french equivalent of the Oscars). In 2001 she's Mrs Erlynne in "Lady Windermere's fan", the play by Oscar Wilde. She appears in two more movies in the 2000's. First "Fragiles" in 2007 and "Thelma, Louise et Chantal" in 2010 alongside Jane Birkin and Catherine Jacob. It's the last movie she was in. In 2013 she's diagnosed with breast cancer. According to her son, her first reaction was to shave her head. She fought cancer for 7 years before passing away in the night of the 15th of December 2020. She was 75. Source: Article "Caroline Cellier" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
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Sacrée soirée
Vivement dimanche
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
At Theatre Tonight
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast...
Cadet Rousselle
Dim Dam Dom
Farinelli
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all t...
Molière pour rire et pour pleurer
Year of the Jellyfish
Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mothe...
This Man Must Die
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the ki...
Didier
Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, d...
A Pain in the Ass
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing...
Fragile(s)
Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.
Cop au Vin
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences)
Seemingly unrelated events connect several people: a young wounded soldier, a nurse, a failed comedian, and a m...
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach...
Life Love Death
François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. H...
A Thousand Billion Dollars
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seekin...
Jean-Philippe
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in a...
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
Délit mineur
A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dear mother.
Thelma, Louise et Chantal
Chantal, Gabrielle and Nelly, three fiftyish women, decide to make the trip to the wedding of an ex together.
Le Zèbre
Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman...
Transit
The body of a murdered young woman is found with three-century-old dead skin under her fingernails. The investi...
Marriage
Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.
Surprise Party
Adventures of a group of youngsters set in a provincial French city in the 1950's.
Femmes de personne
Cécile, a single mother, contrives to meet Gilquin, the married father of a classmate of her nearly-adolescent...
The Most Gentle Confessions
Following a robbery in a circus, a young mobster, Jean, is arrested by Inspector Borelli. The thug denies invol...
The Pupil
Morgan, a sensitive 12-year-old, growing up in richness and royalty, finds a true friend in Julien, a young man...
Petit Con
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a que...
The Great Restaurant II
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.
Vent de panique
Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabe...
Grand Guignol
Sarah, the wife of a theater director, decides to leave her mutt of a husband because she is tired of his morbi...
Poker
Helene loves to play poker for big money in men's company. But one day she looses big time against bar manager...