A great day for Laura Smet. The actress celebrates her 41st birthday on Friday November 15, 2024. Born in 1983, she is the daughter of a legendary couple : actress Nathalie Baye and singer Johnny Hallyday. A clan exposed in the spotlight.
Laura Smet had a hard time dealing with her parents' notoriety
With illustrious parents, Laura Smet long suffered from the label “child of the stars” in her childhood. “At school, I had no branded clothes, no sign that could show that I was 'the daughter of'. Which did not prevent me from being spat on by students,” a- she revealed to the magazine ELLE adding: “I even had a teacher who told me in front of everyone: 'You don't need to work. Your future is all mapped out!' So it’s true that I didn’t love school.”
After leaving school, young Laura chose to follow in her mother's footsteps in her vocation as an actress.. “As I no longer went to school, I spent my time at the cinema. When I stopped, my mother said to me, 'OK, but you are doing something with your life'. I had put myself in “I decided to become an artists' agent, so I enrolled in a theater school”, confides to our colleagues the one who was spotted by the director Olivier Assayas.
She played with her mother and sang with her brother
In 2003, Laura Smet was revealed in the cinema in Impatient Bodies by Xavier Giannoli. The start of a long career on the big and small screen. She also plays with her mother on television in an episode of Ten percent. The daughter of Taulier, who died in 2017, also tried her hand at music by publishing a few songs.
The wife of Raphaël Lancrey-Javal and mother of their son Léo is also close to another man: her brother David Hallyday. The singer and his actress sister have already sung together. Like this evening of November 12 when they shared the stage of the Dôme de Paris for the tour Requiem for a Madman. She shared a tender message to her older brother on social media.
The actress shares rare family photos on the web
“Thank you my dear brother for inviting me to your amazing show”reacted the actress by publishing a photo of their duo this Thursday on Instagram. “I'm so proud of you. Dad must be so happy up there”writes the forty-year-old who had “crazy stage fright but [une] even greater joy”, before thanking “this magnificent audience”. The half-brother of Jade and Joy Hallyday replied: “It was just magical with you… To do it again Sister”. For the occasion, Planet reveals the album of Laura Smet's clan in images in our slideshow.
