Daughter of Edmond Cloutier, the King's Printer in Ottawa, Suzanne Cloutier 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 of Othello (1951) and appeared in Doctor in the House (1954, the hit of the year in Britain)