Laura Smet Movies and Career Information

Laura Smet (born on November 15, 1983) is a French actress. She was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, daughter of the rock musician Johnny Hallyday and the actress Nathalie Baye. In 1986 Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote the song 'Laura' which Johnny Hallyday recorded. The daughter of such famous parents, she has said that she was unhappy at school, that she changed schools numerous times growing up, and that she was sometimes picked on - for example for the fact that at a time when rap music was the fashion, her father was an old-fashioned rock'n'roller. She wanted initially to be a theatrical agent like her godfather, Dominique Besnehard. In 1999 she left school and followed theatre classes 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. Romy Schneider is an actress she greatly