Catherine Samie

Acting

Catherine Samie

Born February 3, 1933 · Paris, France

Died January 11, 2026 · aged 92

Catherine Samie (born 3 February 1933) is a French actress and member (sociétaire, doyen) of the Comédie-Française from 1962. On 14 July 2011 she became Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor. She is a Catholic. Source: Article "Catherine Samie" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

22 Bullets22 Bullets · 2010
22 Bullets
6.72010
MovieDramaCrime
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
La Belle VerteLa Belle Verte · 1996
La Belle Verte
7.21996
MovieComedy
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.
Le DivorceLe Divorce · 2003
Le Divorce
4.92003
MovieDramaRomance
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
L'école des femmesL'école des femmes · 1999
L'école des femmes
1999
Movie
Theater play "L'école des femmes" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999.
Woman Times SevenWoman Times Seven · 1967
Woman Times Seven
6.31967
MovieComedyDrama
Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.
French TwistFrench Twist · 1995
French Twist
6.11995
MovieComedyRomance
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
News from Planet MarsNews from Planet Mars · 2016
News from Planet Mars
5.42016
MovieComedy
Philippe Mars wants to please everyone. He wants to be a good father, a friendly ex-husband, a helpful colleague and an understanding brother. Unfortunately, his little world goes out of its planned orbit. His son becomes a hardcore vegetarian, his daughter a compulsive swot, whilst his sister exhibits giant paintings of their naked parents. At the office he must face the rampages of his mentally unstable colleague Jerôme who one night turns up at his door with a young woman in tow who has just been released from a clinic.
The ReturnedThe Returned · 2004
The Returned
5.52004
MovieDramaFantasy
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.

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SalsaSalsa · 2000
Salsa
6.52000
MovieMusicComedy
At age 24, Rémi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years - Salsa! He heads for Paris, the salsa capital of Europe, only to discover to his great surprise, that nobody wants a white boy in Latin band! Felipe, his Cuban friend, sets him straight: " You don't have the Latino look, muchacho! Today, if your are not Cubano or Columbiano, you are out!". Undaunted, Rémi deliberately takes on the identity, accent and complexion of an unemployed alien in a city where most foreigners will do almost anything to become French. Barreto, 75, the legendary Cuban composer, who is about to close down the once famous Casa Cubana, offers Rémi a job giving dance lessons to the locals. It is here that Rémi falls in love with Nathalie. Her family's "secrets and lies" reveal parental links to Barreto. Do these links explain why this shy beauty ought to be a bomb on the dance floor?

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