Claude Winter (18 February 1931 in Tianjin (China) – 25 April 2011 in Paris).

She is admitted at the Comédie-Française 1 September 1953, becomes sociétaire on 1 January 1960, then dean 1 January 1987. In 1988, following the death of the administrator (Jean Le Poulain), she is administrator per intérim for two and a half month. When she made the decision to retire, she was named honorary sociétaire by her camarades.

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