
Acting
Caroline Cellier
Born 1945-08-07 · Montpellier, Hérault, France
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.
Acting credits
7.3When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
This Man Must Die
1969
5.8Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.
Year of the Jellyfish
1984
6.6The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
Farinelli
1994
6.9A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determined to expose the truth, he races against time to gather evidence before more lives—and his own—are at stake.
A Thousand Billion Dollars
1982
5.7A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Jean-Philippe
2006
6.1Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...
Didier
1997
5.7The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
La Mégère apprivoisée
1964
5.5Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an incurable penchant for practical (or rather impractical) jokes.
Le Zèbre
1992
5.7Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.
Marriage
1974
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Le Vol d'Icare
1980
7.0Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
A Pain in the Ass
1973
5.5François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out: after three dates, he strangles some prostitutes, when, the victim of blackmail, he becomes dishonored. He is taken to court, and sentenced to be killed by a guillotine.
Life Love Death
1969
6.2Morgan, a sensitive 12-year-old, growing up in richness and royalty, finds a true friend in Julien, a young man hired to tutor him.
The Pupil
1996
6.0Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996
5.5Chantal, Gabrielle and Nelly, three fiftyish women, decide to make the trip to the wedding of an ex together.
Thelma, Louise et Chantal
2010
3.9Sarah, the wife of a theater director, decides to leave her mutt of a husband because she is tired of his morbid fantasies. It is true that Baptiste has a rather unstable troupe that rehearses horror plays in a dance hall. Sarah comes out of the wings for life, but it turns out to be as incongruous and phantasmagorical as her husband's plays. This is why she returns to him. "The real grand guignol is life. The other is the farce."
Grand Guignol
1987
No synopsis available yet.
Les Héroïques
1981
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
6.1Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
Cop au Vin
1985
6.5The body of a murdered young woman is found with three-century-old dead skin under her fingernails. The investigation begins with a visit to the coroner and the interrogation of the main suspect. And then the "creatures" arrive, armed to the teeth...
Transit
2004
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
1997
No synopsis available yet.
Les Grands Enfants
1998
6.2A sunny seaside town... Jean and Catherine are in love. They are young, beautiful, and poor. One of Jean's friends suggests he rob the cash box of a traveling circus. But the plan goes wrong: a circus employee is seriously injured, and Jean is arrested. He chooses to proclaim his innocence. To force him to confess and denounce his accomplice, the two detectives in charge of the investigation devise a Machiavellian plan...
The Most Gentle Confessions
1971
5.8The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.
The Great Restaurant II
2011