Amélie Cast
Meet the Cast
Amélie (Audrey Tautou)
Un is the Loneliest NumberAmélie Poulain spends most of her life by herself. She's homeschooled by her chilly, distant mother. She lives in a small apartment alone. And while she works at the Two...
Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz)
Two Sides of the Same FrancNino Quincampoix and Amélie are kindred spirits living in the same city, yet somehow they've never met each other before. We're told they grew up "five miles apart [and]...
Dufayel (Serge Merlin)
Still LifeRaymond Dufayel is a shut-in who lives in Amélie's building. Amélie has emotional reasons for her isolation; Dufayel has physical ones. As the narrator tells us, "They call him 'the gla...
Amélie's Parents (Lorella Cravotta, Rufus)
Amélie visits her father, Raphaël Poulain, every week via train for some of the most miserable father-daughter lunches we've ever seen. It seems like he's been cold and distant since his wife die...
The Two Windmills Characters
Amélie works at the Two Windmills (the Café des 2 Moulins in French) with a host of colorful supporting characters. We have Suzanne, the owner, who walks with a limp because the man she loved dro...
Lucien (Jamel Debbouze)
Personal ShopperLucien is Collignon the grocer's assistant. He has some sort of mental disability that causes him to be a little slower than others and to not understand some social cues. Amélie l...
Collignon (Urbain Cancelier)
This Little Piggy Went to MarketCollignon is a nasty man—and we mean nasty in all ways—who runs the produce stand in Amélie's neighborhood. He's abusive mentally and physically to his assistan...
Madeleine Wells (Yolande Moreau)
Cry Me a RiverMadeleine Wells is Amélie's lonely landlady. Her husband used to write her stacks and stacks of love letters before they got married, even calling her his "sweet little weasel" in th...
Dominique Bretodeau (Maurice Bénichou)
Toy StoryIf it weren't for Dominique Bretodeau, nothing in Amélie would happen. Forty years ago, when he was just a child, he put a little tin of his treasures—some marbles, a postcard, a bicycl...
The Man in Red Shoes (Ticky Holgado)
In Nino's photo album, there are many photos of a bald man. Nino only collects photos that people leave behind in photo booths, and he has no idea who this man is. Why would this man take so many p...
The Blind Man (Jean Darie)
Once Was Lost, But Now He's… Still LostWe see the nameless blind three times in Amélie. First, he's in the subway listening to a song on a record player. Amélie gives him some money. Second, he...