Suzanne Cloutier

• Name — Suzanne Cloutier • Born — 10 July 1923 • Birthplace — Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Died — 2 December 2003 • Place of death — Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Occupation — Actress • Children — 3

Cloutier was the daughter and one of six children of Edmond Cloutier, the King's Printer for Canada in Ottawa, and Hélène Saint-Denis, who wed on May 23, 1922. She 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 Orson Welles' film version of Othello (1951) and appeared in Doctor in the House (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.

Cloutier appears to have been born in Ottawa on July 10, 1923, and died of liver cancer in Montreal on December 2, 2003, aged 80.

• Illustration — Orson Welles and Suzanne Cloutier in Othello (1951) • Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1946 — Temptation — Yvonne Dupont • 1949 — data-sort-value="Sinners, The" | The Sinners — Maria Lambert • 1951 — Juliette, or Key of Dreams — Juliette • 1951 — Othello — Desdemona • 1952 — Derby Day — Michele Jolivet • 1954 — Doctor in the House — Stella • 1961 — Romanoff and Juliet — Marfa Zlotochienka • 1997 — data-sort-value="Countess of Baton Rouge, The" | The Countess of Baton Rouge — Virginie Beaufort • 1998 — It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux — Hôtesse du restaurant

She was the child of Edmond Cloutier and Hélène Saint Denis. She married Peter Ustinov. 3 children are recorded: Igor Ustinov, Pavla Ustinov and Andrea Ustinov.