Suzanne Cloutier (July 10, 1923 – December 2, 2003) was a

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film actress.

Biography

Daughter of Edmond Cloutier, the

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in Ottawa, Suzanne Cloutier escaped an early unconsummated marriage to become an actress, first with Charles Laughton in New York and then the Comédie Française. She appeared in films by Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné, starred as Desdemona in

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' film of Othello (1951) and appeared in

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(1954, the hit of the year in Britain). 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. The actress's age was often misreported, but she appears to have been born in Ottawa July 10, 1923 and died in Montreal December 2, 2003.

Filmography

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* 1927 births 2003 deaths 20th-century Canadian actresses Actresses from Ottawa Canadian film actresses Deaths from cancer in Quebec Deaths from liver cancer Ustinov family {{Canada-actor-stub