An emblematic figure of French cinema, Valérie Lemercier has lost count of the successes to which she has contributed. The Visitors, Aline, Le Petit Nicolas, Asterix and Obelix: At the service of Her Majesty, the actress has been filming since the beginning of the 90s. From Kad Merad to Jean Reno via Gérard Depardieu, Franck Dubosc or Gilles Lellouche, at 59, the actress can boast of having given the reply to the greatest . More than 30 years after her debut in show business, Valérie Lemercier has nothing left to prove.
To this day, she is even living proof that succeeding without a diploma and living from her passion is quite possible. For good reason… Valérie Lemercier, like Omar Sy, Jamel Debbouze or Vanessa Paradis, does not have the baccalaureate. An anecdote that she also discussed in January 2022 in the columns of the Sunday newspaper.
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“A drunk had crashed into the family car”
Interviewed in pairs with her friend Brigitte Buc, the Dieppoise returned to the day when a car accident made her miss her baccalaureate. “A boozer had crashed into the family car, from which I was the only one absent. Brigitte’s mother came to pick me up from high school to take me to see my parents and my sisters at the hospital. If I had been in the car , maybe it would have been more serious… in any case, because of that, I didn’t go on vacation that summer. And my mother gave me a book: What to do without the bac?she confided.
According to her faithful friend Brigitte Buc, already at the time, Valérie Lemercier only dreamed “what a theater”. It was in 1982 that she tasted the world of entertainment and television by asking questions to the participants in the program I’Academy of 9 presented by Jean-Pierre Foucault. A program that opened the doors to the 7th art.
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