Jacqueline Maillan

Biography

Jacqueline Jeanne Paule Maillan (11 January 1923 - 12 May 1992) was a French actress with a career spanning almost five decades, known primarily for her forty theatre productions, she also appeared in more than fifty films (1947 to 1992) and is remembered as one of the greatest comedic thespians of her generation and even nicknamed "The Louis de Funès in skirt". After working on the classics of French theatre, she excelled in playing exuberant, strong and powerful women in vaudeville and boulevard on stage or in such films as Jean-Marie Poiré's cult Gramps Is in the Resistance (French: Papy fait de la résistance,1983) before pioneering stand-up in France. Her husband Michel Emer, who was Edith Piaf's composer, helped her hide her bisexuality (if not her sole homosexuality) from the public as they lived as a 'free couple' when it was then deeply stigmatized during the 1950s and 1960s. She was made a Chevalier (French: Knight) of the Légion d'honneur and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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Known For

Filmography

as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Delphine Martinet, la pharmacienne
as Françoise Lumière
as Mrs. Yvette
as Edma Bautet-Lebrêche
1990 Stars 90
as Self
1988 Palace
as Docteur Hélène Swift
as Henriette Brulard
as Hermione
as Jacqueline Garibaldi
as Lily et Déborah Dacosta
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Coco Baisos
1983 Potiche
as Suzanne Pujol