Laura Smet

Laura Smet (born on November 15, 1983) is a French actress. She was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, daughter of the rock musician Johnny Hallyday and the actress Nathalie Baye. In 1986 Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote the song 'Laura' which Johnny Hallyday recorded. The daughter of such famous parents, she has said that she was unhappy at school, that she changed schools numerous times growing up, and that she was sometimes picked on - for example for the fact that at a time when rap music was the fashion, her father was an old-fashioned rock'n'roller. She wanted initially to be a theatrical agent like her godfather, Dominique Besnehard.¹ In 1999 she left school and followed theatre classes with Raymond Acquaviva. In 2002 she began her acting career when Xavier Giannoli, on the recommendation of Olivier Assayas, cast her in the role of Charlotte , a young cancer patient in ' Les Corps Impatients,' and for which she received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress. In 2003 she starred in Claude Chabrol's film adaptation of the Ruth Rendell novel The Bridesmaid, (La Demoiselle d'Honneur).

In 2004, Smet won the Prix Romy Schneider. Romy Schneider is an actress she greatly admires. In 2006 she played in 'Le Passager de l'été', a film written and directed by Florence Moncorgi-Gabin, the daughter of Jean Gabin. In 2007 she played Caroline in L'Heure zéro Pascal Thomas's film adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel.

On January 4, 2010, Smet was admitted to a hospital in Val-de-Grâce in response to a suicide attempt which took place in the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in the sixth arrondissement of Paris, France. According to reports, she imbibed a cocktail of alcohol and unspecified medicine.² Prior to the attempt, she had been close to Julien Delajoux. Julien's brother, Stéphane Delajoux, was the doctor who unsuccessfully operated on Laura's father Johnny Hallyday. After enduring additional surgery at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, and having been placed in a medically-induced coma to avoid pain from the ordeal, Johnny had brought a lawsuit against Stéphane Delajoux.

Filmography

• 2008 - Sang Froid
• 2008 - La Frontière de l'aube
• 2007 - U.V., dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner
• 2007 - L'Heure zéro
• 2006 - Le Passager de l'été
• 2003 - La Demoiselle d'Honneur , dir. Claude Chabrol
• 2003 - La Femme de Gilles (Gilles' Wife), dir. Frédéric Fonteyne
• 2003 - Les Corps Impatients (Eager Bodies), dir. Xavier Giannoli

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External links

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