Nicole Maurey
Nicole Maurey was a French actress, who appeared in 65 film and television productions between 1945 and 1997.Life and career
Born in Bois-Colombes, a northwestern suburb of Paris, Maurey was originally a dancer before being cast in her first film role in 1944.
In 1953 Maurey appeared opposite Bing Crosby in Little Boy Lost that was filmed in France. The following year Universal-International brought Nicole Maurey from France, Gia Scala from Italy and Myriam Verbeeck from Belgium to the United States to test for the role of Mary Magdelene in an unproduced Biblical epic The Galileans. She remains most noted as Charlton Heston's leading lady in Secret of the Incas, often cited as the primary inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark. She starred in films with Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Rex Harrison, Robert Taylor and Mickey Rooney, among numerous others. She was the leading lady in the original 1962 science fiction cult film The Day of the Triffids. Later in life, she moved into television, appearing in various made-for-TV movies and mini-series.
She was married to Jacques Gallo.
Maurey died in March 2016 at the age of 90.Filmography
- Le cavalier noir as Solange
- Pamela as Mme Royale
- Blondine as Blondine
- La bataille du feu as Anne-Marie
- Journal d'un curé de campagne as Mlle Louise
- Rendezvous in Grenada Manina
- Le dernier Robin des Bois as Isabelle Delorme
- as Manon
- Les Compagnes de la nuit as Yvonne Leriche
- L'oeil en coulisse as Annette Durand
- Little Boy Lost as Lisa Garret
- L'Ennemi public numéro un as Peggy
- Si Versailles m'était conté... as Mademoiselle de Fontanges
- Secret of the Incas as Elena Antonescu
- Napoléon as Mme Tallien
- The Constant Husband as Lola
- The Bold and the Brave as Fiamma
- The Weapon as Vivienne
- Section des disparus as Diana Lander
- Action immédiate as Diana Rossi
- Rogue's Yarn as Michele Cartier
- Me and the Colonel as Suzanne Roualet
- The Scapegoat as Bela
- The Jayhawkers! as Jeanne Dubois
- The House of the Seven Hawks as Constanta Sluiter
- High Time as Prof. Helene Gauthier
- His and Hers as Simone Rolfe
- Don't Bother to Knock as Lucille
- The Day of the Triffids as Christine Durrant
- The Very Edge as Helen
- Pleins feux sur Stanislas as Claire
- Sale temps pour les mouches as Eva Delagrange
- Gloria as Alice
- Chanel Solitaire as Grande Dame
Television
- The Ford Television Theatre as Denise
- Casablanca as Denise
- Avatar
- Rouletabille as Mathilde Stengerson
- La Morale de l'histoire as Thérèse
- Champion House as Michele Champion
- Noëlle aux quatre vents as Lisette Andrieux
- Mon seul amour as Claude
- La Demoiselle d'Avignon as Nicole
- Les Évasions célèbres as Mme de Boislinard
- Le grillon du foyer as Dot
- La vie et la passion de Dodin-Bouffant as Pauline
- Au théâtre ce soir as Mary McLaren
- Les nuits de la colère as Louise
- Le provocateur as Gisèle Charmoy
- Une atroce petite musique as Irène Musselet
- Marie Dorval as Mademoiselle Mars
- Les écrivains as Eve
- as Frau Grammont
- Lucien Leuwen as Mme Leuwen
- Au théâtre ce soir as Mme Rice
- La passagère as Catherine Caron
- Comme du bon pain as Madeleine Rivard
- La lune papa as Mme Marchandou
- La vie des autres as Blanche
- Sunday Night Thriller as Eliane Label
- Marianne, une étoile pour Napoléon as Princesse de Benevent
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes as Gertrude Necken
- Rouge Marine as Gertrude Necken
- Coulisses as Sabine Corval
Theatre
- 1952: Harvey by Mary Chase, director Marcel Achard, Théâtre Antoine
- 1964: La Preuve par quatre written and directed by Félicien Marceau, Théâtre de la Michodière
