Véra Clouzot

Véra Clouzot

actress, writer

Véra Clouzot was born on Dec 30, 1913 in Brazil. Véra Clouzot's big-screen debut came with The Wages of Fear directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1953. Véra Clouzot is known for La Vérité directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, Brigitte Bardot stars as Dominique Marceau and Paul Meurisse as Maître Éparvier. The upcoming new movie Véra Clouzot plays is La Vérité which will be released on Nov 02, 1960.

Véra Gibson-Amado, known professionally as Véra Clouzot, was a Brazilian-French actress.In 1941, Véra met French actor Léo Lapara, a member of the theater company of Louis Jouvet, who toured in Brazil during World War II. Vera married the actor, taking part in the company's South American tour that lasted almost four years. After World War II, Vera settled in Paris.In 1947, Lapara had a role in Quai des Orfèvres (1947) by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Vera met Henri on the set with her then-husband and it was described as "coup de foudre", love at first sight. Clouzot hired Vera as the script girl of his next film, Miquette et sa mère (1950). Vera divorced Lapara and married Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1950. She was directed by her husband in her first film, the 1953 thriller Le salaire de la peur (1953), in which she appeared alongside Charles Vanel and Yves Montand. In a short film career Clouzot only performed in films directed by Henri-Georges, the most famous of which was undoubtedly the 1955 thriller Les diaboliques (1955).Vera died suddenly of a heart attack in 1960 just 15 days short of her 47th birthday.

  • Birthday

    Dec 30, 1913
  • Place of Birth

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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