FrameThrower · Actors · Macha Méril
Macha Méril
5 films · 294 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1964–1985
Born 3 September 1940 · Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]
Princess Maria-Magdalena Vladimirovna Gagarina, known by her stage name Macha Méril, is a French actress and writer.
Méril is descended by her father from the Russian princely house Gagarin and by her mother from a Ukrainian noble family. She appeared in 125 films between 1959 and 2012, including films directed by Jean-Luc Godard (A Married Woman / Une femme mariée), Luis Buñuel (Belle de jour), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Chinese Roulette).
She also appeared in the Quebec television series Lance et Compte. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Helga Ulmann in Dario Argento's Deep Red and in Aldo Lado's Night Train Murders (1975).
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 294 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1964–1985
- Knight of the Legion of Honour1993
- Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit
- Officer of the National Order of Merit
- Officer of Arts and Letters
How their films are shot
Measured across 294 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Macha takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 59% of their frames are day, 54% natural — the look of the work Macha takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 294 frames from Macha Méril's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.