Yannick Noah will play, in a France 2 drama, “a former tennis player and now tournament director” who helps solve the murder of a young clay court hopeful.
Yannick Noah adds a string to his racket. He will make his debut as a TV actor in a fiction for France 2, Death on claywhere he plays a former tennis player, the channel announced this Wednesday, November 20.
Filming of this 90-minute detective TV film began this Monday in Paris and the Paris region, and will end on December 13. The release date is not yet known.
Former tennis champion turned singer, Yannick Noah, 64, landed his first major film role in It’s the world upside down! by Nicolas Vanier, released in October.
His character in Death on clay, Vincent Beti, is obviously partly inspired by his real life: “a former player and now tournament director, as charismatic as he is troubled”, according to a press release from the channel.
An investigation into the death of a young tennis hopeful
He helps two police officers, played by Florent Peyre and Camille Lauristan, in the investigation into the death of a young tennis hopeful as the prestigious tournament he directs approaches. In the cast, we find Eleejah Noah, one of his daughters.
The last French winner of the Roland-Garros tournament, in 1983, then captain of the French team that won the Davis Cup in 1991, Yannick Noah then turned to a career as a singer.
He achieved big popular successes in this second life, starting with the song Africa Sagaanthem of the 1991 Davis Cup and hit of that year.
Son of Cameroonian footballer Zacharie Noah and a Frenchwoman, Marie-Claire Noah, he is the father of six children. The eldest is ex-basketball player Joakim Noah, 39, and the youngest was born in October.
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