The interpreter of Commissioner Dorval in the series of France 3 Alex Hugo suffered a tragedy in the 1990s. Maryline Canto (58 years old) had to face the death of the first love of his life: Benoit Regent. A test that she had put into images in a film.
Maryline Canto was a happy woman. In addition to chaining the projects, she had found love in the person of Benoît Régent, also an actor. They had married and had a child together. A boy named Ferdinand (28 years old). But in 1994she finds herself alone with her little boy. At the end of filming black as memory, by Jean-Pierre Mocky, her husband died prematurely of a ruptured aneurysm. He was only 40 years old then.
This drama, Maryline Canto chose to tell it in the film The sense of humor (2014), which she directed. “It was so brutal. It was not in the order of things. When a tragedy happens to you, you want to make something beautiful out of it…. It’s a modest film, not into pathos: it’s about vitality“, confided the charming brunette in the columns of Gala. In the film, she played Élise, a forty-something who lives alone with her son Léo since her husband’s death. She has a relationship with Paul that she fails to love as she would like. And this character is embodied by… Antoine Chappey, her current husband. “He’s a wonderful actor. He inspired me, he had a rock band, he has two jobs, bookseller and actor, an element that I added to the writing of the character“, she added.
Sons that follow the same path
Together, Maryline Canto and Antoine Chappey had a son, Louis (23). He and his half-brother followed in their parents’ footsteps. After studying at the National Theater of Strasbourg, the same school as his mother, Ferdinand embarked on comedy. “I did not expect that. He began by studying architecture. But quite quickly, he said to me: ‘I may not dare, but I want to be an actor.’ I then told him that he needed a solid formation“, confided the star ofAlex Hugo at Gala in August 2020. Louis has become a comedian. “I sometimes see him talking to himself, that’s how he writes his lyrics. He said to himself: this is the best direction possible! Barely out of high school, he knew this would be his path. He thus took improvisation lessons and began to tread the Parisian stages of stand-up. Only his brother is allowed to go see him. I attended a show, I laughed a lot, but Louis told me that it worried him a little to know me in the room“, she clarified. Perhaps the young man has since changed his mind.