The actress Francesa Caroline Cellier, winner of the César Prize in 1985 for her role in the film ‘L’Année des Meduses’ (A Fiery Cat), He died this Tuesday in Paris at the age of 75 after a long illness, the French press announced today.
Known for her supporting roles in French cinema and theater and with a long filmography behind her, Cellier (Montpellier, 1945) worked with directors such as Chaude Chabrol, Claude Lelouch, Edouard Molinaro and together with her husband, Jean Poiret, to whom she was married since 1965 and until his death in 1992.
“Today we separated for a few minutes but you will have been and always will be my strength, my laugh, my anguish, my mockery, my bloodshed, my knight of injustice, my hypocrisy detector, my moon, my mother, my battle … “, wrote his son, Nicolas Poiret, on Instagram.
The actress will be remembered for her role in films such as ‘Le Zèbre’ (The passionate eccentric), ‘Que la bête meure’ (Accident without a trace) or ‘La vie, l’amour, la mort’ (Life, love, death), and up to a hundred titles between the big screen, theater and television, which make up a career of more than fifty years.
His last film was the comedy ‘Thelma, Louise and Chantal’, by Benoît Pétré, in 2010, which starred alongside Jane Birkin and Catherine Jacob, a tribute to the famous Hollywood title of the 1990s.
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