Macha Méril

Macha Méril, born Princess Maria-Magdalena Vladimirovna Gagarina on 3 September 1940, Rabat, Morocco, is a French actress and writer, descended by her father from the Russian princely house Gagarin and by her mother from a Ukrainian noble family. She has appeared in 119 films between 1959 and 2007, including roles in films directed by Jean-Luc Godard (Une femme mariée, 1964), Luis Buñuel (Belle de jour, 1967) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Chinese Roulette, 1976). She also played in the Quebec series Lance et Compte. Description above from the Wikipedia article Macha Méril,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco], 1940-09-03

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	The Itchy Palm	Yvette	60
2	1961	Mon Petit Chou		0
3	1962	Adorable Liar	Sophie	51
4	1962	Sign of the Lion	La Blonde du 14 Juillet (uncredited)	70
5	1962	Love on a Pillow	Raphaële	58
6	1963	Sweet and Sour	La striptisiste	46
7	1963	Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?	Jacqueline Edwards	58
8	1964	Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc	Nicole	56
9	1964	Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise	Nicole	56
10	1964	The Little Misses	Caroline	0
11	1964	The Married Woman	Charlotte	69
12	1965	Rampage at Apache Wells	Lizzy	62
13	1966	Pop Age	Self	0
14	1966	The Defector	Frieda Hoffmann	55
15	1967	Horizon	Elisa	49
16	1967	Belle de Jour	Renée	74
17	1968	Wall Engravings	Jeanne Delaître	73
18	1968	Don't Play with Martians	Maryvonne Guéguen	20
19	1970	Conjugal Love	Leda	55
20	1971	We Are All in Temporary Liberty		0
21	1972	We Won't Grow Old Together	Françoise	71
22	1974	Chinese In Paris	Madeleine	63
23	1974	Amore mio non farmi male		47
24	1975	Deep Red	Helga Ulmann	78
25	1975	The Last Day of School Before Christmas		0
26	1975	Late Night Trains	The Lady on the Train	61
27	1975	The Man of the Winds	Anna	0
28	1975	Il registratore	Ms. Collins	0
29	1975	Son tornate a fiorire le rose		53
30	1976	Peccatori di provincia	Vincenzina Lo Curcio	45
31	1976	Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe	baronessa Valeria Lamia	55
32	1977	Pasión	Bianca	60
33	1977	Chinese Roulette	Traunitz	72
34	1977	Ride bene... chi ride ultimo	principessa Esmeralda Benti Contini	51
35	1977	Emmenez-moi au Ritz	Barbara	0
36	1977	Una donna di seconda mano	Clelia, la madre di Simona	45
37	1978	Your Turn, My Turn	Marianne	43
38	1978	Tanto va la gatta al lardo...	Vera	48
39	1978	Robert et Robert	Agathe	62
40	1978	Ridendo e scherzando	Susy	60
41	1978	Rock 'n Roll	Annalisa	0
42	1979	Night of The Flowers	Macha	20
43	1979	Le rose di Danzica	Elvira von Lehner	0
44	1980	Tender Cousins	Mère de Julien	59
45	1981	Bolero: Dance of Life	Magda Kremer	70
46	1981	Beau Pere	la Maîtresse de maison	66
47	1981	Le bonheur des tristes	Madeleine	0
48	1982	L'Apprentissage de la ville	Luc's mother	0
49	1982	Le Crime d'amour	Jeanne Bontemps / Odette Dumont	48
50	1983	Deadly Circuit	Madeleine	62
51	1983	For Those I Loved	Martin's Mother	69
52	1983	Le Grand Carnaval	Mme Armande Labrouche	56
53	1984	Wild Animals	Sylvia	46
54	1985	The Chicks	Françoise	36
55	1985	Les Rois du gag	Jacqueline	57
56	1985	Vagabond	Mme Landier	73
57	1986	Follow My Gaze	La femme à l'ouvre boîte	63
58	1986	Duet for One	Anya	58
59	1989	La Vouivre	La rodinet	48
60	1991	The Cocottes	Mme. Rose	40
61	1991	A Simple Story	La vedova del Roccella	68
62	1991	Meeting Venus	Miss Malikoff	58
63	1992	Fish Soup	Caterina	20
64	1992	Double Vision	Mrs. Perfect	48
65	1993	Le Don	Margherita	0
66	1993	L'éternel mari	Claudia	56
67	1993	Berlin '39	Madame Vic	70
68	1994	Délit mineur		0
69	1995	Son of Gascogne	Self	48
70	1996	A Crucial Test	Catherine	0
71	1998	A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries	Madame Beauvier	60
72	1998	Belle Grand-Mère	Babou	80
73	1999	Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon	Self	0
74	2000	Le sciamane	Claudia's mother	0
75	2003	Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments	Interviewee	0
76	2003	Belle grand mère, La Trattoria	Joséphine, dite « Babou »	10
77	2003	Bel-Ami	Mme Madeleine Forestier / Mme du Roy de Cantel	80
78	2004	Clochemerle	Baroness Alphonsine de Courtebiche	43
79	2006	Mademoiselle Gigi	Mamita	0
80	2007	René Bousquet ou le grand arrangement	Évelyne Baylet	80
81	2008	Guy Gilles		0
82	2011	The Nights of Alice	Bettina	0
83	2012	Seasons of Love	Henriette Marcenat	20
84	2012	Ten Minutes from Naturists	Suzy Dulac, tante de Patrick	49
85	2012	Happiness Never Comes Alone	Fanfan Keller	61
86	2012	3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race	Alice Fabre (old)	73
87	2014	La Trouvaille de Juliette	Juliette	10
88	2016	Alliances rouge sang	Béatrice	65
89	2017	Mr. Stein Goes Online	Marie	60
90	2017	Albatros, The Film Adventure Of The White Russians In Paris	(voice)	0
91	2018	Françoise Dorléac, une promesse	Self	60
92	2019	The Unexpected Child	Christine	63
93	2020	Belle belle belle	Lili	50
94	2021	La Dernière Partie	Louise	44
95	2022	Michel Legrand, la musique enchantée	Self	0
96	2022	Queen Lear – Die Leben der Amanda Lear		80
97	2023	Godard Cinema	Self	64
98	2023	Enquête parallèle	Colette Chaperot	67
99	2024	Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema	Self - Actress	77
100	2024	Les Boules de Noël	Simone	53
101	2025	Enquête parallèle : Un crime presque parfait	Colette Chaperot	55

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Dim Dam Dom	Self	60
2	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
3	1979	Morte a passo di valzer	Lady Flora Drayton	0
4	1979	La promessa	Signora Heller	60
5	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	62
6	1985	Télématin	Self	45
7	1985	Au nom de tous les miens	Mère de Martin	0
8	1986	Lance et Compte	Maroussia Lambert	45
9	1993	To Remember	Narrator	70
10	1997	Joséphine, Guardian Angel	Tania	59
11	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
12	2001	Méditerranée	Carla	55
13	2015	Folie passagère	Self	60
14	2022	Un dimanche à la campagne	Self	90
15	2022	Il était une fois Champs-Élysées	Self (archive footage)	66
16	2023	Enquête parallèle	Colette Chaperot	0