This November 15, 2022, Laura Smet, daughter of Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday, celebrates her 38th birthday. Daughter of an actress with 4 Cesars and a music legend, the 30-year-old grew up protected by her parents but could not escape painful moments. Today, she has found serenity in her relationship with Raphaël Lancrey-Javal, whom she has been dating since 2013, and with their son, Léo, 2 years old. Before finding her balance, the actress wrote other chapters in her life, one of which was shared for a few years with a writer from elsewhere…
It was in 2018 that Laura and Raphaël said yes, after five years of living together. Before him, the heroine of Impatient bodies had frequented Julien Delajoux or even Jean-Claude Sindres. But of her companions of the past, there is one with whom she has kept good relations and whom she has moreover invited to her wedding in Cap Ferret with Raphaël. Writer-star who also tried his hand at directing, he won the heart of Laura Smet in 2002. This is Frédéric Beigbeder, a novelist who had held very nice words about his ex-companion on the show Icons in 2021 on Europe 1: “I admire Laura Smet a lot, she is very charismatic, she has an innocence and, at the same time, a loneliness. Something moving, fragile.“
An intellectual who does not fart intellectual
Lara Micheli’s husband had also been able to appreciate the sweet reflections on their couple made by Laura Smet in Psychologies Magazine a few years earlier: “That a guy like Frédéric is interested in me, I was flattered. What’s more, he’s an intellectual who doesn’t care about being an intellectual. I like it“However, their relationship in the early 2000s was not necessarily well seen by Laura’s relatives. They were worried about the age difference between them (eighteen years) but also by escapades and addictions. When they broke up, Laura, who was then 23 years old, had taken a long time to recover from this heartache.
A difficult period which did not prevent the former lovers from keeping good relations. This is how the author of Love lasts three years was invited to Laura’s wedding to Raphael on June 15, 2019.”Laura’s eyes matched the ocean. She was so happy that she radiated like an atomic power station. Everyone was smiling, there was love and joy in the air. It was one of the most beautiful weddings I have ever been to.“, then confided the writer father of three daughters to Point of view.
On the news side, Laura Smet is trying her hand at the theater this fall with The Uncertainty Principle, directed by Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, starring Jean-Pierre Darroussin. This play by Simon Stephens recounts the improbable encounter between a somewhat clueless American woman and a solitary septuagenarian. The actress therefore took her first steps under the boards, under the admiring gaze of her husband Raphaël. Since the birth of their couple, the artist is always more radiant.