Laura Smet
Also Known As: Laura Huguette Smet
Biography: Laura Huguette Smet (born 15 November 1983) is a French actress. She is the daughter of rock musician Johnny Hallyday and actress Nathalie Baye. In 1986, Johnny Hallyday recorded in her honor the song "Laura", written by Jean-Jacques Goldman. She wanted initially to be a theatrical agent like her godfather, Dominique Besnehard. In 1999, she left school and began studying theatre with Raymond Acquaviva. In 2002, she began her acting career when Xavier Giannoli, on the recommendation of Olivier Assayas, cast her in the role of Charlotte, a young cancer patient in Les corps impatients, and for which she received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress. In 2003 she starred in Claude Chabrol's film adaptation of the Ruth Rendell novel, The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'Honneur). In 2004, Smet won the Prix Romy Schneider. In 2006 she played in Le Passager de l'été, a film written and directed by Florence Moncorgé-Gabin, the daughter of Jean Gabin. In 2007 she played Caroline in L'Heure zéro, Pascal Thomas's film adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel. Source: Article "Laura Smet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Birthday: November 15, 1983
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Gender: Female
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Eager Bodies
Overview: Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-23
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Frontier of Dawn
Overview: A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-06
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One Summer
Overview: A hired labourer, Joseph, works on a farm inhabited by Monique, a war widow, and Jeanne, her captivating daughter who longs to escape to the big city.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-07
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Towards Zero
Overview: Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily for the extended clan gathered at a sumptuous waterfront estate in Northern France, Inspector Martin Bataille is on hand to find out not only "who done it" but why.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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Gilles' Wife
Overview: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-15
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UV
Overview: During the absence of Philipp, in his house appears the stranger, who calls himself Boris. He says that he was the school comrade of Philipp and it arrived to visit old friend. Boris charms all households and remains to await Philipp. Only one Andre- Pierre distrustful relates to the stranger.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-30
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The Bridesmaid
Overview: A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-17
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Beyond Suspicion
Overview: Henri est convaincu que Lise, sa nouvelle et jeune femme, l’aime sincèrement. Henri est aussi convaincu que Sam, le témoin de leur mariage, est le frère de Lise. La machination est parfaite. Enfin presque...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-08-04
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Faux Frères
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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Pauline et François
Overview: Pauline, 28, hopes that by moving to the countryside she will be able to come to terms with the recent death of her husband. Here, she meets François, an introverted man of about her age whose emotional wounds run much deeper than her own. Forever scarred by a childhood tragedy, François lives a prisoner-like existence, guarded night and day by his authoritarian father and intrusive sister. Pauline and François discover a common bond in the fact that they both desperately want to start a new life, but lack the confidence to do so. At first, they find it hard to communicate with one another. But, gradually, they find the words to express their feelings and begin to realise that each has the power to set the other free...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-21
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Yves Saint Laurent
Overview: A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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96 heures
Overview: Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel. Today, thanks to an extraction, Kancel kidnaps the cop. He has 96 hours to elicit a single information: know who gave him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-23
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Cold Blooded
Overview: "Cold Blooded" - The meeting between a fragile woman and a depressed soldier builds a dangerous alliance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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French Dolls
Overview: Louise, Sam, Lili. Three women who don't know each other but whom will be forced to meet, get together, and compare themselves to each other by the wild will of evolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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Des gens qui passent
Overview: Wonderful piece of film noire. Great acting, París, well, as beautiful as ever. Love the plot gaps, force you to thunk. To imagine. The whole story is never revealed. Highly recommended. Marie is delicious.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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First Growth
Overview: Winemaker son, Charlie Marshall left Burgundy to become a Parisian renowned winemaker, author of a successful guide whose notes are annually tremble vineyards. But in Côte-d'Or, his father lost the taste of wine and mistakes the family winery rush towards bankruptcy. At first reluctant, Charlie returns to Burgundy. It must his boots and shoes back up his sleeves and become winemaker confront a profession he does not know, under the skeptical gaze of his father. Between unpredictable weather and a delicate variety, Charlie will have to prove to his father that he is worthy of this land passed from generation to generation in their family. It is easy to note a wine, but how do we do a great wine?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-27
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Johnny Hallyday dans la chaleur de Bercy
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-15
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The Guardians
Overview: In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by themselves while their men are off fighting in World War I. But things become complicated with the arrival of American troops.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-06
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Carbone
Overview: In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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Duplicity
Overview: Alice learns of her mother's accidental death while travelling in Canada. The body has been repatriated to France at the request of her husband, Alice's father. But he has supposedly been dead for 22 years. Is it really her father? Why would her mother have lied to her?
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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The Odd Girl
Overview: Following a long prison term, 30 year-old Céline must find a place in society. Hiding her past, she introduces herself with a new identity to get work for a trial period in a hotel. Céline finds herself endlessly walking a tightrope between truth and fiction. When she meets Idir, despite the threat of being unmasked, Céline falls in love and finds herself a prisoner to her own lies. But how can one live without taking risks?
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-25
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L'araignée rouge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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Eden
Overview: Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-19
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The Holy Family
Overview: Jean, an anthropologist with no history, is appointed Minister of the Family. While he discovers the backstage of the political world, he must also deal with the events that shake his own family, with the discovery of his brother's homosexuality, and the unexpected pregnancy of his wife.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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