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
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