Laura Smet

Laura Smet (born on November 15, 1983) is a French actress. She was born Jean-Philippe Smet in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, daughter of 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 in ' Les Corps Impatients.'

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.

Filmography

• 2008 - Sang Froid
• 2008 - La Frontière de l'aube
• 2007 - UV, dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner
• 2007 - L'Heure Zero
• 2006 - Le passage de l'été
• 2003 - La Demoiselle d'honneur (lit., Lady of Honour), dir. Claude Chabrol
• 2003 - La Femme de Gilles (Gilles' Wife), dir. Frédéric Fonteyne
• 2002 - Les Corps impatients (Eager Bodies), dir. Xavier Giannoli

References

External links

• Laura Smet at the Internet Movie Database

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