Suzanne Cloutier (July 10, 1923 – December 2, 2003) was a Canadian film actress.
Biography Cloutier was the daughter and one of six children of Edmond Cloutier, the King's Printer for Canada in Ottawa, and Hélène Saint-Denis, who wed on May 23, 1922. She escaped an early unconsummated marriage to become an actress, first with Charles Laughton in New York and then the Comédie Française.Interview with Cloutier identifying her father as the King's Printer and lists a dozen movies in which Cloutier appeared. marcel-carne.com. Accessed July 24, 2023. She appeared in films by Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné, starred as Desdemona in Orson Welles' film version of Othello (1951) and appeared in Doctor in the House (1954, the hit of the year in Britain).
Marriage She had acted earlier in London in a play by Peter Ustinov, and the two married in 1954. They had three children, Andrea, Igor and Pavla, and Cloutier appeared in the film of his stage hit Romanoff and Juliet. The couple divorced in 1971, when Cloutier reconnected with Orson Welles, then at work on films never finished. Cloutier later resettled in Los Angeles, and eventually in Montreal, Canada, in 1988.
Death Cloutier appears to have been born in Ottawa on July 10, 1923, and died of liver cancer in Montreal on December 2, 2003, aged 80.
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes1946 Temptation Yvonne Dupont 1949 The Sinners Maria Lambert 1951 Juliette, or Key of Dreams Juliette 1951 Othello Desdemona 1952 Derby Day Michele Jolivet 1954 Doctor in the House Stella 1961 Romanoff and Juliet Marfa Zlotochienka 1997 The Countess of Baton Rouge Virginie Beaufort 1998 It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux Hôtesse du restaurant
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