Installed in Cap Ferret since the health crisis, Laura Smet is naturally rarer in Paris. But don’t forget her career, to which she will breathe new life with a great first. Indeed, as we learn from JDD this Sunday, June 12, the daughter of Johnny Hallyday and Nathalie Baye is about to go on the boards. “She will know his baptism of fire at the theatre”, write our colleagues. The 38-year-old actress, who we found recently in the series Captain Marleauwill be with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, on the bill of Uncertainty principle of the English Simon Stephens, on the boards of the Montparnasse theater, and this from September 22.
In this play directed by Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, director of The Holy Family, the last film in which Laura Smet shot in 2019, she will therefore be making her big comeback with a big premiere. Far from the Parisian media tumult, Laura Smet has largely taken a liking to this peaceful life offered to her by the Arcachon basin. Mother of a little boy named Léo (born October 7, 2020, so called because it is the middle name of his late dad), Raphaël Lancrey-Javal’s wife does not hesitate to come back when the event is worth it a deviation.
An evening with her ex
We were able to see Laura Smet at the 15th anniversary of the Prix de la Closerie des Lilas last April, in the legendary Parisian restaurant. If she did not compete for the prize, she was one of the invited jurors for this 2022 edition. The actress was thus able to see the coronation of Elena Piacentini, Corsican author of thrillers, with her novel The silences of Oglianobut also crossed paths with his ex Frédéric Beigbeder. If both have rebuilt their lives since their story which ended in 2006, they nevertheless keep very good relations. Laura Smet even invited the latter to her wedding with Raphaël Lancrey-Javal. A gesture that the father of three children had greatly appreciated. “I thought it was very classy of him to invite us and that’s why I went with Lara. It’s a proof of intelligence and friendship“, had made known the illustrious writer.