In the movie Never confess (Ivan Calbérac), released last April, he plays the role of Boris, karate teacher and ex-lover of Annie (played by Sabine Azéma). In real life, Thierry Lhermitte is the man of one woman, Hélène Aubert, who played the role of a club host in The Bronzed. She has been his wife since 1974.
The couple have three children: Astrée (born in 1974), Victor (born in 1979) and Louise (1993). Grandson and nephew of a neurologist, son of a company administrator and a journalist, Thierry comes from a bourgeois background where it is normal to study extensively. To the great dismay of his parents, however, he followed a completely different path. “After the baccalaureate, I enrolled at Nanterre University, but I never set foot there, explained the septuagenarian last April in The Sunday Tribune. My student card was useful for me to benefit from all kinds of discounts.“
His own studies will be the drama classes of the actress Tsilla Chelton, which he will follow for three periods with his classmates. of the Splendid troop – which did not respond in its entirety, during the recent farewell to Michel Blanc – from 1970. In retrospect, Thierry blames himself for having worried his parents. “I regret today that I was that kid who wasn't interested in anything. Wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't know where, but just somewhere else. My parents were desperate. There are thousands of kids who have no interest in studies and suddenly become excellent at something because they find interest in it. This was my case.“With the theater then.
Thierry Lhermitte didn't want his children to imitate him
In this matter, he presented his parents with a fait accompli: “It was my decision and they had no choice but to accept it. Back then, it was so easy to make a living. There were plenty of odd jobs. I was a courier, a stagehand at the Théâtre Marigny. I hung fabric on the walls…“
One might believe that, with his bohemian look and his devastating humor, the native of Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) did not put pressure on his offspring to pursue studies. Moreover, during Astrée and Victor's childhood, in 1987, the family took a break for about a year to go to sea aboard a 13-meter sailboat. Things are a little more complicated than that and their father hoped that they would not imitate him.
“We parents make the mistake of hoping that our children will succeed where we have failed, he continued in The Sunday Tribune. But it is often a disillusionment. I have to admit that studying isn't really their thing either. I ended up accepting that they don't share my ambitions for them. The important thing is that they are happy.“
“Not the responsibility to raise them”
And they seem to be. At 45, Victor Lhermitte has lived in Montreal for several years. In Quebec, he ran a bistro restaurant called Les Cons Servent for a long time, proof that he inherited his father's humor! Victor is the father of a ten-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter who call their grandfather Papito and see him once or twice a year. He particularly appreciates the relationship with his grandchildren. “We are very tolerant, we only have the good side of things, not the responsibility to raise themhe admitted in July 2022, at the microphone of Europe 1. It's easier.“To find out who has taken up the torch of bohemian life among the Lhermittes, we have to look to the girls. After Thierry, Astrée and Louise also chose the life of an artist.
Astrée, first of all, is a 50-year-old painter. In this, she succeeds her great-great paternal grandfather Léon Lhermitte, a renowned painter from the beginning of the 20th century.e century. After a brief career as a movie makeup artist, she moved to the United States between 1990 and 2000. She studied painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the state of Georgia. Then, with her graphic designer and illustrator diplomas in hand, Astrée moved to New York. Before returning to France shortly before September 11, 2001. Today, she creates abstract works inspired by the Russian painter Vassily Kandinsky or the Italian writer Cesare Pavese of whom she particularly likes this quote: “Art is proof that life is not enough.“
“It gets a little hotter as a teenager”
His sister, Louise Lhermitte, responded to the calls of another muse: music. After studying the viola, she released in 2022, under the artist name Lonny, a first album called Ex-Voto which she defended during a tour of more than 150 dates, including a concert at La Cigale in Paris and the opening acts of Dominique A and Jane Birkin at the Olympia. Ex-Voto received a very warm welcome from the public and the mediaFrance Inter welcoming “superb lyrics and an album that follows in the footsteps of another great folk figure, Leonard Cohen“. There are worse comparisons! Lonny returned in 2023 with the album Around Ex-Voto.
A very fan of his younger sister, Thierry follows her career with great interest and rarely misses his Parisian concerts. “I am close to my three childrenwelcomed the actor in 2016 in Paris Match. In general, things get a little heated during adolescence and we meet up later.“As is almost inevitably found among the Lhermittes, the genes of an artistic soul.
