- Born
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- Birth nameVéra Gibson-Amado
- Height5′ 0¾″ (1.54 m)
- Véra Gibson-Amado, known professionally as Véra Clouzot, was a Brazilian-French actress.
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. After World War II, Vera settled in Paris.
In 1947, Lapara had a role in Jenny Lamour (1947) by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Vera met Henri on the set with her then-husband and it was described as "coup de foudre", love at first sight. Clouzot hired Vera as the script girl of his next film, Miquette (1950). Vera divorced Lapara and married Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1950. She was directed by her husband in her first film, the 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear (1953), in which she appeared alongside Charles Vanel and Yves Montand. In a short film career Clouzot only performed in films directed by Henri-Georges, the most famous of which was undoubtedly the 1955 thriller Diabolique (1955).
Vera died suddenly of a heart attack in 1960 just 15 days short of her 47th birthday.
- IMDb mini biography by: John Jameson
- SpousesHenri-Georges Clouzot(February 3, 1950 - December 15, 1960) (her death)Léo Lapara(1941 - 1947) (divorced)
- Her character Christina Delassalle on Diabolique (1955) had heart problems which probably killed her at the end of a movie. Clouzot died of a sudden heart attack in real life five years after the movie was released. She was two weeks away from her 47th birthday at the time she died.
- As of 2016, of the three films in which she starred, two are on IMDb Top 250.
- Daughter of Alice do Rego Barros and Gilberto Amado (1887-1969), one of Brazil's most notorious political figures, congressman, writer, journalist and lawyer, ex-President of the United Nations' International Law Committee, and who, in 1915, shot to death fellow writer and poet Aníbal Teóphilo in an official ceremony at the Jornal do Commercio for disagreeing with his opinions on literature (Amado was acquitted).
- She did her own stunts in "Le Salaire de la Peur", which included getting on a moving truck and being pushed away to the ground.
- Buried in the Montmartre Cemetery.
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