Paris (AFP)

Actress Caroline Cellier, awarded the César 1985 for best supporting actress for "The Year of the Jellyfish" by Christopher Frank, died Tuesday in Paris at the age of 75 following a long illness. we learned in his entourage.

Second popular role in cinema, theater and television with a hundred films, plays and series since the beginning of the 1960s, Caroline Cellier, equally at ease in drama as in comedy, has been directed by the greatest directors including Claude Lelouch ("Life, love, death"), Claude Chabrol ("May the beast die"), Edouard Molinaro ("The sweetest confessions", "L'Emmerdeur" ... ), Henri Verneuil ("Thousand billion dollars") ...

In 1992, her husband Jean Poiret had enlisted her in "Le Zèbre", sharing the poster with Thierry Lhermitte.

United since 1965, Caroline Cellier and Jean Poiret were married the same year.

They had a son Nicolas Poiret, screenwriter and playwright.

"Today, we leave each other for a few minutes but you will have been and you will remain eternally my strength, my laughter, my anguish, my derision, my bloodshot, my signet ring of injustices, my detector of hypocrisy, my moon , my Moune, my mother, my battle! "wrote Nicolas Poiret on his Instagram account, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.

- About thirty pieces -

Originally from Montpellier and trained at Cours Simon, Caroline Cellier made her stage debut in 1963 in "Le Ciel de lit" by Jan De Hartog.

Distinguished as a young hope by the Marcel-Achard and Gérard-Philipe prizes, she took her first steps in cinema under the direction of Jacques Poitrenaud in "La Tête du client", two years later.

In 1982, Caroline Cellier played the wife of Patrick Dewaere in "Thousand Billion Dollars" by Henri Verneuil, a great success in the cinema and rebroadcast many times on television.

Alongside Bernard Giraudeau in "The Year of the Jellyfish", another box office success of the 80s, Caroline Cellier won the César for best actress in a supporting role.

In the theater, with around thirty plays to his credit, one of his last appearances dates back to 1998 in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire".

Her performance was greeted with a nomination for the Molière for best actress.

"I am full of women at the same time. My roles make me advance as well in my job as in what I am ...", had entrusted in 2010 to Figaro the actress, always intense and magnetic on the screen.

That year, she played a fifty-something who was both fragile and determined in "Thélma, Louise et Chantal", the first film by Benoît Pétré.

"We can be afraid of illness, of being disabled, but we cannot be afraid of death. Since I was very little, I tell myself that we are going to die tomorrow", she added.

"I have always had this lucidity. So, let's take advantage, let's move forward ... You have to have an appetite for things".

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