Macha Méril

Known for: Acting

Born: 1940-09-03 (age 85)

From: Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]

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 (125)

MOVIE★ 7.0
Vieillir et jouir sans entraves
2026
as Self - Actress / Writer
MOVIE★ 4.8
Les Boules de Noël
2024
as Simone
MOVIE★ 7.7
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024
as Self - Actress
TV★ 6.5
Enquête parallèle
2023
as Colette Chaperot
MOVIE★ 5.5
Godard Cinema
2023
as Self
TV★ 6.6
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
as Self (archive footage)
TV★ 9.0
The Unexpected Getaway
2022
as Self
MOVIE
The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Solidarity concert for Ukraine
2022
MOVIE★ 8.0
Queen Lear – Die Leben der Amanda Lear
2022
as Self
MOVIE
Michel Legrand, enchanted music
2022
MOVIE
Michel Legrand, la musique enchantée
2022
as Self
MOVIE★ 8.0
Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort
2021
as self
TV
Un monde, un regard
2021
MOVIE★ 4.4
La Dernière Partie
2021
as Louise
MOVIE★ 4.7
Belle belle belle
2020
as Lili
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Unexpected Child
2019
as Christine
MOVIE★ 6.0
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
2018
as Self
MOVIE
Cannes 1968, révolution au palais
2018
as Self
MOVIE
Albatros, The Film Adventure Of The White Russians In Paris
2017
as (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.0
Mr. Stein Goes Online
2017
as Marie
MOVIE★ 6.5
Alliances rouge sang
2016
as Béatrice
TV★ 6.0
Folie passagère
2015
as Self
MOVIE★ 1.0
La Trouvaille de Juliette
2014
as Juliette
MOVIE★ 7.2
3rd Reich Mothers, in the Name of the Master Race
2012
as Alice Fabre (old)
MOVIE★ 6.1
Happiness Never Comes Alone
2012
as Fanfan Keller
MOVIE★ 4.8
Ten Minutes from Naturists
2012
as Suzy Dulac, tante de Patrick
MOVIE★ 2.0
Seasons of Love
2012
as Henriette Marcenat
MOVIE
The Nights of Alice
2011
as Bettina
MOVIE
Guy Gilles
2008
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.7
René Bousquet ou le grand arrangement
2007
as Évelyne Baylet
TV★ 5.1
On n'est pas couché
2006
as Self - Guest
MOVIE
Mademoiselle Gigi
2006
as Mamita
MOVIE★ 4.2
Clochemerle
2004
as Baroness Alphonsine de Courtebiche
MOVIE★ 8.0
Bel-Ami
2003
as Mme Madeleine Forestier / Mme du Roy de Cantel
MOVIE★ 4.0
Belle grand mère, La Trattoria
2003
as Joséphine, dite « Babou »
MOVIE
Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments
2003
as Self - Interviewee
TV★ 6.0
Méditerranée
2001
as Carla Valbonne
MOVIE★ 8.0
Le sciamane
2000
as Claudia's mother
MOVIE
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
1999
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.5
Belle Grand-Mère
1998
as Babou
TV★ 3.6
Vivement dimanche
1998
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.1
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998
as Madame Beauvier
TV★ 6.0
Joséphine, Guardian Angel
1997
as Tania
MOVIE★ 10.0
A Crucial Test
1996
as Catherine
MOVIE★ 5.1
Son of Gascogne
1995
as Self
MOVIE
Délit mineur
1994
as Madeleine
TV★ 7.0
To Remember
1993
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 7.7
Berlin '39
1993
as Madame Vic
MOVIE★ 5.4
L'éternel mari
1993
as Claudia
MOVIE
Le Don
1993
as Margherita
MOVIE★ 5.1
Double Vision
1992
as Mrs. Perfect
MOVIE★ 4.7
Fish Soup
1992
as Caterina
MOVIE★ 5.9
Meeting Venus
1991
as Miss Malikoff
MOVIE★ 6.9
A Simple Story
1991
as La vedova del Roccella
MOVIE★ 5.2
The Cocottes
1991
as Mme Rose
TV★ 7.7
Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin
1989
as Tatiana
MOVIE★ 4.9
La Vouivre
1989
as La rodinet
MOVIE★ 5.4
Duet for One
1986
as Anya
TV★ 4.3
Lance et Compte
1986
as Maroussia Lambert
MOVIE★ 6.2
Follow My Gaze
1986
as La femme à l'ouvre boîte
MOVIE★ 7.4
Vagabond
1985
as Madame Landier
TV★ 7.0
Colette
1985
as Colette
MOVIE★ 5.8
Les Rois du gag
1985
as Jacqueline
TV★ 7.0
Au nom de tous les miens
1985
as Mère de Martin
MOVIE★ 3.7
The Chicks
1985
as Françoise
TV★ 5.8
Télématin
1985
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.6
Wild Animals
1984
as Sylvia
MOVIE★ 5.6
Le Grand Carnaval
1983
as Mme Armande Labrouche
MOVIE★ 7.0
For Those I Loved
1983
as Martin's Mother
MOVIE★ 6.1
Deadly Circuit
1983
as Madeleine Beauvoir
MOVIE★ 4.9
Le Crime d'amour
1982
as Jeanne Bontemps / Odette Dumont
TV★ 6.8
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
MOVIE★ 9.0
L'Apprentissage de la ville
1982
as Luc's mother
MOVIE★ 9.0
Le bonheur des tristes
1981
as Madeleine
TV
Le rose di Danzica
1981
as Elvira
MOVIE★ 6.4
Beau Pere
1981
as la Maîtresse de maison
MOVIE★ 6.9
Bolero
1981
as Magda Kremer
MOVIE★ 5.8
Tender Cousins
1980
as Mère de Julien
TV★ 6.5
La promessa
1979
as Signora Heller
MOVIE★ 8.0
Le rose di Danzica
1979
as Elvira von Lehner
TV
Morte a passo di valzer
1979
as Lady Flora Drayton
MOVIE★ 4.7
Night of The Flowers
1979
as Macha
MOVIE★ 7.0
Rock 'n Roll
1978
as Annalisa
MOVIE★ 7.0
Ridendo e scherzando
1978
as Susy
MOVIE★ 6.3
Robert et Robert
1978
as Agathe
MOVIE★ 5.8
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
1978
as Vera
MOVIE★ 4.5
Your Turn, My Turn
1978
as Marianne
MOVIE★ 4.7
A Second Hand Lady
1977
as Clelia, la madre di Simona
MOVIE★ 7.0
Emmenez-moi au Ritz
1977
as Barbara
MOVIE★ 5.1
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
1977
as principessa Esmeralda Benti Contini
MOVIE★ 7.2
Chinese Roulette
1977
as Traunitz
MOVIE★ 7.5
Pasión
1977
as Bianca
MOVIE★ 5.8
Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe
1976
as baronessa Valeria Lamia
MOVIE★ 4.7
Peccatori di provincia
1976
as Vincenzina Lo Curcio
MOVIE★ 5.8
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
1975
as Linda De Simone
MOVIE★ 9.0
Il registratore
1975
as Ms. Collins
MOVIE
The Man of the Winds
1975
as Anna
MOVIE★ 6.1
Late Night Trains
1975
as The Lady on the Train
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
1975
as Egle
MOVIE★ 7.7
Deep Red
1975
as Helga Ulmann
TV★ 6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.1
Amore mio non farmi male
1974
as Linda De Simone
MOVIE★ 6.2
Chinese In Paris
1974
as Madeleine
MOVIE★ 7.0
We Won't Grow Old Together
1972
as Françoise
MOVIE★ 7.0
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971
as Gisella, wife of Mario De Rossi
MOVIE★ 5.8
Conjugal Love
1970
as Leda
MOVIE★ 2.0
Don't Play with Martians
1968
as Maryvonne Guéguen
MOVIE★ 7.5
Wall Engravings
1968
as Jeanne Delaître
MOVIE★ 7.3
Belle de Jour
1967
as Renée
MOVIE★ 5.5
Horizon
1967
as Elisa
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Defector
1966
as Frieda Hoffmann
MOVIE
Pop Age
1966
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.3
Rampage at Apache Wells
1965
as Lizzy
TV★ 8.0
Dim Dam Dom
1965
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Married Woman
1964
as Charlotte
MOVIE
The Little Misses
1964
as Caroline
MOVIE★ 6.2
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
1964
as Nicole
MOVIE★ 5.9
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
1964
as Nicole
MOVIE★ 6.1
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
1963
as Jacqueline Edwards
MOVIE★ 5.1
Sweet and Sour
1963
as La striptisiste
MOVIE★ 5.8
Love on a Pillow
1962
as Raphaële
MOVIE★ 7.1
Sign of the Lion
1962
as La Blonde du 14 Juillet (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.8
Adorable Liar
1962
as Sophie
TV★ 8.0
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960
as Countess Janine St. Alyre
MOVIE★ 7.5
The Itchy Palm
1960
as Yvette