Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu will play Monique Ritz in season 5 of
The Crown
, revealed the
Daily Mail
in March.
Three months later, Karine Ambrosio, another French actress, officially joined the cast of the Netflix series, as the Giles Foreman Center for Acting Paris (GFCA) announced in early June.
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She will thus slip into the role of Marie-Luce Townsend, the second wife of Captain Peter Townsend (Timothy Dalton), the impossible love of Princess Margaret, whom he has never been able to marry being already divorced.
The soldier and the one who is then called Marie-Luce Jamagne, and is 25 years younger than him, met on a racetrack, after the latter fell from his horse, before sealing their union in Belgium, the country of Marie-Luce, in 1959. The couple gave birth to three children, Isabelle, Marie-France and Pierre, and took up residence in the Paris region.
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A regular on the small screen
This is not the first time that Karine Ambrosio, 52, trained at Cours Florent and GFCA, officiates on the small screen.
The actress born in Croix has thus played in television films and series such as
Profiling
,
Cherif,
Scènes de Ménage
and
Alice Nevers, the judge is a woman
.
The actress is also a regular on the scene.
She wrote, acted and produced her own one-woman-shows (
I met Richard Berry
,
Dressing Room
and
The very bad girl(s) show
), on tour in Paris and then throughout France.
She also participated in plays such as
Marie Tudor
(2001),
Les Nonnes
(2000) and
Macbeth
(1999), at the beginning of her career.
She had also become a radio host from the age of 14, on local stations in the Var, before being hired at Fun Radio Toulon then at RMC in Monaco.
In 2021, she joined the cast of
The Crown,
season 5. It will nevertheless be necessary to wait for the release of this new burst of episodes, in November, to discover her performance.