Véra Clouzot
Actress

Véra Clouzot Net Worth

Véra Clouzot was a Brazilian-French actress born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1913. She met French actor Léo Lapara in 1941 and married him, taking part in his theater company's South American tour. After World War II, Vera settled in Paris and met Henri-Georges Clouzot, with whom she fell in love and married in 1950. She was cast in her husband's films, most notably the 1953 thriller Le salaire de la peur and the 1955 thriller Les diaboliques. Vera died suddenly of a heart attack in 1960, 15 days short of her 47th birthday.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Writer
Birth Day December 30, 1913
Birth Place  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Brazil
Age 107 YEARS OLD
Died On 15 December 1960(1960-12-15) (aged 46)\nParis, France
Birth Sign Capricorn
Years active 1953–1957
Spouse(s) Léo Lapara (1941–1947) Henri-Georges Clouzot (1950–1960)
Family Jorge Amado (second cousin)

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1941

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.

1947

Véra met film Director Henri-Georges Clouzot through her then-husband, Léo Lapara, who had minor parts in Quai des Orfèvres (1947) and Return to Life (1949), in the segment directed by Clouzot, "Le Retour de Jean".

1950

Véra worked as a continuity assistant on Clouzot's Miquette (1950) and they married in 1950. Clouzot named his production company, Véra Films, after his wife. She made only three films, all directed by her husband. The sole female role in The Wages of Fear (1953) is played by Véra. Clouzot wrote the role specifically for his wife, as the character does not exist in the original novel. The Wages of Fear is about a South American town where a group of desperate men are offered money to drive trucks carrying nitroglycerin through rough terrain to put out an oil well fire. The Wages of Fear was the 4th highest-grossing film in France in 1953, and was seen by nearly 7 million spectators.

1955

The most notable of Clouzot's films starring Véra was the classic thriller, Les Diaboliques (1955), co-starring Simone Signoret. She also starred in Les Espions (1957), and co-wrote the screenplay for the film La Vérité (1960), which was also directed by her husband.

1960

Véra died in Paris in 1960, aged 46, from a heart attack, shortly after the filming of La Vérité. Henri-Georges Clouzot fell into a depression over her death. After her funeral, he moved to Tahiti, but returned to France in December 1960. She is buried in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris.

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