# Clémentine Célarié

Clémentine Célarié (born 12 October 1957) is a French actress, writer, director and singer.

## Life and career

She was born as Meryem Célarié in Dakar in what was then the French colony of Senegal on 12 October 1957. After passing her Baccalaureate, she spent a year living in the United States. She took acting lessons in France and became an actress.
She has three sons, Abraham, Gustave and Balthazar. She lives in Aix-en-Provence.

## In the media

In 1994 Clémentine appeared on a TV show for Sidaction hosted by Christophe Dechavanne. In the show, Célarié shared a kiss with an HIV-positive man, to contribute to the fight against misconceptions about the virus.
Célarié supported Socialist Francois Hollande for the presidential election of 2012.

## Author

* 2003 : Marcella (Calmann-Lévy)
* 2007 : Mes Ailes (Michel Lafon)
* 2012 : Les Amoureuses (Le Cherche midi)
* 2015 : On s'Aimera (Le Cherche midi)

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
| 1983 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller | P. Casari | |
| 1984 | The Annunciation of Marie | Paul Claudel | P. Casari (2) | |
| 1987 | The House of Bernarda Alba | Federico García Lorca | Janine Berdin | |
| 1989 | Marcella | Clémentine Célarié | C. Reichert | |
| 1994 | The Odd Couple | Neil Simon | Bernard Murat | |
| 1997 | Die Goldberg Variationnen | George Tabori | Daniel Benoin | |
| 1997 | Dérapage | Arthur Miller | Jérôme Savary | |
| 2001 | Madame Sans-Gêne | Victorien Sardou & Émile Moreau | Alain Sachs | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actress |
| 2003 | La Fesse cachée de la lune | Frédéric Longbois | Clémentine Célarié | |
| 2004 | Mon cabaret | Clémentine Célarié | Clémentine Célarié (2) | |
| 2004 | Électrocardiogramme | Florence Savignat | Clémentine Célarié (3) | |
| 2005 | Madame sans chaînes | Clémentine Célarié | Abraham Diallo | One-woman show |
| 2005-06 | Le Journal | Jules Renard | Clémentine Célarié (4) | |
| 2006 | Les Grandes Occasions | Bernard Slade | Bernard Murat (2) | |
| 2008 | La Tectonique des sentiments | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | |
| 2008 | Prenez garde à l'amour | Guy de Maupassant | Manuel Durand & Gabor Rassov | |
| 2008 | Ma vie d'extra-terrestre | Patricia Assouline, Claude Fraize & Audrey Lemoine | Clémentine Célarié (5) | |
| 2009 | Pour Bobby | Serge Valletti | Christophe Correia | |
| 2009 | La Serva amorosa | Carlo Goldoni | Christophe Lidon | |
| 2011 | Madame Sans-Gêne | Victorien Sardou & Émile Moreau | Alain Sachs (2) | |
| 2011 | Des Nouvelles de Maupassant | Guy de Maupassant | Thierry Monfray | |
| 2011-13 | Black Like Me | John Howard Griffin | Clémentine Célarié (6) | |
| 2012 | Calamity Jane | Jean-Noël Fenwick | Alain Sachs (3) | |
| 2013-15 | La Danse immobile | Clémentine Célarié & Thierry Monfray | Clémentine Célarié (7) | |
| 2015 | Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman | Stefan Zweig | Steve Suissa | |
| 2016 | Le Monde de Rita | Clémentine Célarié | Clémentine Célarié (8) | |
| 2016 | Darius | Jean-Benoît Patricot | Anne Bouvier | |
| 2019 | Une vie | Guy de Maupassant | Arnaud Denis | |

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1983 | Garçon! | Margot | Claude Sautet | |
| 1983 | Ballade sanglante | | Sylvain Madigan | Short |
| 1984 | The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent | | Gérard Oury | |
| 1984 | Paroles et musique | Michel's girl | Élie Chouraqui | |
| 1985 | Le téléphone sonne toujours deux fois !! | Annabella | Jean-Pierre Vergne | |
| 1985 | Les Nanas | Eliane | Annick Lanoë | |
| 1985 | Blanche et Marie | Fernande | Jacques Renard | |
| 1985 | Moi vouloir toi | Martine | Patrick Dewolf | |
| 1986 | La gitane | Elsa | Philippe de Broca | |
| 1986 | Justice de flic | Dorothée | Michel Gérard | |
| 1986 | Betty Blue | Annie | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 1986 | Le complexe du kangourou | Claire Chaumette | Pierre Jolivet | |
| 1986 | La femme secrète | Camille | Sébastien Grall | |
| 1987 | La vie dissolue de Gérard Floque | Cécile | Georges Lautner | |
| 1987 | Cinéma 16 | Claire | Renaud Saint-Pierre | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1988 | Sand and Blood | Marion | Jeanne Labrune | |
| 1988 | Sanguines | Marine | Christian François | |
| 1988 | Île flottante | | Pascale Thirode | Short |
| 1988 | Sueurs froides | Anne | Eric Brach | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1989 | Nocturne Indien | Christine | Alain Corneau | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 1989 | Morte fontaine | Kouka | Marco Pico | TV movie |
| 1990 | Adrénaline | | Anita Assal & John Hudson | |
| 1990 | Le silence d'ailleurs | Jeanne | Guy Mouyal | |
| 1990 | Coup de foudre | Isabelle Meyral | Michel Wyn | TV series (1 episodes) |
| 1991 | Génial, mes parents divorcent ! | Julien's Mother | Patrick Braoudé | |
| 1991 | Niklaus und Sammy | | Alain Bloch | |
| 1991 | Poison d'amour | Agnès | Hugues de Laugardière | TV movie |
| 1991 | Renseignements généraux | Lily Zigler | Hugues de Laugardière (2) | TV series (1 episodes) |
| 1992 | Les années campagne | The Mother | Philippe Leriche | |
| 1992 | Savage Nights | Marianne | Cyril Collard | |
| 1992 | 2 bis, rue de la Combine | Françoise | Igaal Niddam | TV movie |
| 1992 | Turbulences | Constance | Élisabeth Rappeneau | TV movie |
| 1993 | Vent d'est | Anna | Robert Enrico | |
| 1993 | Abracadabra | Martha | Harry Cleven | |
| 1993 | Toxic Affair | Sophie | Philomène Esposito | |
| 1993 | Rose | The Woman | Alain Berliner | Short |
| 1994 | La Vengeance d'une blonde | Marie-Ange de la Baume | Jeannot Szwarc | |
| 1994 | Les Braqueuses | Bijou | Jean-Paul Salomé | |
| 1994 | The Heart's Cry | Deborah | Idrissa Ouedraogo | |
| 1994 | La rage au coeur | Jeanne | Robin Davis | TV movie |
| 1995 | À cran | Clara | Solange Martin | |
| 1995 | Les Misérables | Catherine / Fantine | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1995 | Sept ans et demi de réflexion | Zina | Sylvie Flepp | Short |
| 1995 | Sans souci | The Woman | Jean-Michel Isabel | Short |
| 1995 | La règle du silence | Clara | Marc Rivière & Marie Rivière | TV movie |
| 1996 | XY, drôle de conception | Sandrine Rey | Jean-Paul Lilienfeld | |
| 1996 | La vie avant tout | Liliana | Miguel Courtois | TV movie |
| 1997 | Les Soeurs Soleil | Gloria | Jeannot Szwarc (2) | |
| 1998 | La femme d'un seul homme | Sabine | Robin Renucci | TV movie |
| 1998 | Il n'y a pas d'amour sans histoires | Monique | Jérôme Foulon | TV movie |
| 1999 | Les coquelicots sont revenus | Nathalie | Richard Bohringer | TV movie |
| 1999 | Les enfants du jour | Lisa | Harry Cleven (2) | TV movie |
| 2000 | Room to Rent | Vivienne | Khalid Al-Haggar | |
| 2000 | La tribu de Zoé | Zoé Melkian | Pierre Joassin | TV movie |
| 2000 | La banquise | Clémence | Pierre Lary | TV movie |
| 2001 | Du côté des filles | Liza | Françoise Decaux-Thomelet | |
| 2001 | Lawless Heart | Corrine | Tom Hunsinger & Neil Hunter | Nominated - Chlotrudis Awards - Best Cast |
| 2001 | A Hell of a Day | Michèle | Marion Vernoux | |
| 2001 | Objectif bac | Sophie Rémy | Patrick Volson | TV movie |
| 2001 | La cape et l'épée | The Minstrel | Jean-Jacques Amsellem | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2002 | Justice de femme | Véronique Chevallier | Claude-Michel Rome | TV movie |
| 2003 | Mauvais esprit | Béatrice Copy | Patrick Alessandrin | |
| 2004 | Mona lisier | Mona | Clode Hingant | Short |
| 2004 | Mon fils d'ailleurs | Coline | Williams Crépin | TV movie |
| 2004 | Le Miroir de l'eau | Josépha | Edwin Baily | TV mini-series |
| 2005 | Bien dégagé derrière les oreilles | Suzy Brilliant | Anne Deluz | TV movie |
| 2005 | Les femmes d'abord | France | Peter Kassovitz | TV movie |
| 2005 | Un coin d'Azur | Madeleine Neri | Heikki Arekallio | TV movie |
| 2005 | Les vagues | Myriam | Frédéric Carpentier | TV movie |
| 2006 | Paul | The Mother | Philippe Uchan | Short |
| 2006 | Monsieur Léon | Raymonde | Pierre Boutron | TV movie |
| 2008 | Sa raison d'être | Hélène | Renaud Bertrand | TV movie |
| 2008 | Les enfants d'Orion | Edwige | Philippe Venault | TV movie |
| 2009 | La différence, c'est que c'est pas pareil | Anne | Pascal Laëthier | |
| 2009 | Victor | Sylvie Saillard | Thomas Gilou | |
| 2009 | Le siffleur | Viviane Vatinet | Philippe Lefebvre | |
| 2009 | La passion selon Didier | Juliette | Lorenzo Gabriele | TV movie |
| 2009 | Juste un peu d'@mour | Jeanne | Nicolas Herdt | TV movie |
| 2009-10 | Les Bleus | Commissioner Nicole Mercier | Christophe Douchand, Stéphane Clavier, ... | TV series (22 episodes) |
| 2010 | Le gendre idéal 2 | Olivia | Arnaud Sélignac | TV movie |
| 2010 | Les invincibles | Gisèle | Pierric Gantelmi d'Ille & Alexandre Castagnetti | TV series (7 episodes) |
| 2011 | La Ligne droite | Marie-Claude | Régis Wargnier | |
| 2011 | The Adopted | Millie | Mélanie Laurent | |
| 2011 | J'ai peur d'oublier | Fabienne | Élisabeth Rappeneau (2) | TV movie Festival de la Rochelle - Best Performance by an Actress Nominated - Monte-Carlo Television Festival - Best Actress |
| 2011 | Marthe Richard | Marthe Richard | Thierry Binisti | TV movie |
| 2013 | Love Is in the Air | Marie | Alexandre Castagnetti (2) | |
| 2013 | Myster Mocky présente | Martha | Jean-Pierre Mocky | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2013 | R.I.S, police scientifique | Nicole Langlois | Hervé Brami | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2014 | Meurtres à Rocamadour | Sophie Lacaze | Lionel Bailliu | TV movie |
| 2014 | Scènes de ménages | Marianne | Francis Duquet | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2015 | Les yeux ouverts | Anne | Lorraine Lévy | TV movie |
| 2015 | Accusé | Hélène Vidal | Julien Despaux | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2016 | Two Is a Family | Samantha | Hugo Gélin | |
| 2016-2017 | Lebowitz contre Lebowitz | Paule Lebowitz | Christophe Barraud, Frédéric Berthe, .... | TV series (16 episodes) |
| 2017-2018 | Vestiaires | The Star | Fabrice Chanut & Franck Lebon | TV series (3 episodes) |
| 2018 | A Thousand Pieces | Nicole Parmentier | Véronique Mériadec | |
| 2018 | Edmond | Sarah Bernhardt | Alexis Michalik | |