End clap for the emblematic series broadcast by France 3,
Plus belle la vie
.
The show has accumulated records in terms of numbers: 18 years, 4,665 episodes and more than 3,000 actors.
Among them, some actresses were able to take advantage of this visibility to launch their careers, whether in comedy like Blandine Bellavoir, in theater like Laëtitia Millot or even in song like Fabienne Carat.
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Laetitia Millot
The actress joined the cast of the series from the second episode, in August 2004. From then on, she played the character of Mélanie Rinato, a waitress working at the Mistral bar with Michel Cordes in the skin of Roland and Laurent Kérusoré in that of Thomas Mark.
She finally abandoned the series in 2018 in order to devote herself to the evolution of her career.
At the same time, she had still been able to play in television series like
Clear-eyed revenge
or TV movies like
When I grow up, I will kill you
and
Love at first sight in Bora Bora
.
Between 2017 and 2018, she documented the struggle to have a child in
Becoming a mom: our fight against endometriosis.
She finally gives birth to a little girl named Lyana in May 2018 born of her union with Badri Menaia.
After her departure from PBLV, she is the heroine of the
Olivia
series broadcast by TF1 in 2019. She also participates in several programs broadcast by TF1.
She reached the third step of the podium with her dancer Christophe Licata in the fourth season of "Dancing with the stars".
Most recently, in September 2022, she was hiding under the mouse costume in “Mask Singer”.
She signs her return to the theater – which she had put aside since 2011 – with the comedy
A farewell dinner
alongside Cartman and Jean-Baptise Shelmerdine.
Blandine Bellavoir
First a model for L'Oréal and several other hairdressing brands, the Breton woman with fiery hair began her career as an actress in 2008. It was France 3 that offered her the role of Sonia Escudier, the little friend of Maxime Robin, in
Plus belle la vie
.
She abruptly left the series after only a year of filming in 2009.
Her career was also combined with the theater until 2010. From then on, she continued her career on the small screen in the
Canal+ series
Maison close , then formed the new duo of the series
Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie
with Samuel Labarthe.
In 2021, she plays the role of Christine Villemin, the mother of little Grégory, in the eponymous documentary.
The actress joins the cast of the fourth season of
Red Bracelets, new generation
on TF1 in 2023.
Sara Mortensen
Franco-Norwegian, she joined the Cours Florent from 2001 to 2004. She appeared in several television series including
Clem
,
Femmes de
droit and
Engrenages
but obtained her first recurring role in
Plus belle la vie
and became Coralie Blain, professor of mathematics.
She also meets her spouse, Bruce Tessore, on the set of the series.
However, she was ousted from the program in 2019 and supported during this painful event by several actors from the soap opera.
But Sara Mortensen quickly bounces back and becomes, the same year, Astrid Nielsen, autistic documentalist, in the detective series
Astrid and Raphaëlle.
At the same time, she obtained the main role of Captain Emma Thélier in the detective series
Les Mysteries de...
More recently, she appeared in the French TV movie
Le Saut du diable 2: le Sentier des loups
by Julien Seri alongside Philippe Bas .
Dounia Coesens
Revealed at the age of fifteen in
Plus belle la vie
, she is one of the actresses who made her debut with the series in 2004. Nine years later, in 2014, she decided to leave the program.
The actress continued the television series with
Instinct
,
Scenes of households
and
Commissioner Magellan
but also devotes herself to the theater with the play
Of mice and men
by John Steinbeck, given in Paris from 2015 to 2017.
In 2009, at just twenty years old, she obtained the young talent trophy "Young Comedian TV".
The same year, she became a sponsor of the ELA association against leukodystrophies, genetic diseases.
Subsequently, she took her first steps in the cinema in Jean-François Davy's film,
Long live the crisis
.
And since 2021, she has had a string of successes, starting with her first role alongside Michel Cymes in the TV movie
La Doc et le Véto
obtaining good reviews.
This was followed by a remarkable appearance in
Camping Paradis
where she played the mother of Laurent Ournac during a return to 1976. She joined the series
Tomorrow belongs to us
from the end of 2022 in the dark role of Romy, a mother married to a violent man.
Pauline Bression
The least we can say is that the comedy was not obvious to the young woman of 33 years.
Parisian, she studied law until obtaining a master 2 at the faculty of the Sorbonne.
But she finally decides to make a 360° turn in her professional career and take acting lessons at Cours Florent until 2013.
A year later, she gets the role of Emma in the series and will appear in the casting until 2022.
At the same time, she played in six other television films, starting with
Commissioner Magellan
and
Joséphine guardian angel
in 2017,
Cain
in 2018,
Hortense
in 2020 then a Franco-Belgian production in 2021 entitled
L'oubliee d'Amboise
and finally
Lame de fond
de Bruno. Garcia in 2022.
Aurelie Vaneck
Comedy is a family affair with the Vanecks.
From the great-grandfather, the director Jacques Backer, to the brother, the actor Thibaud Vaneck, passing by the grandfather, the actor Pierre Vaneck, the young girl has been immersed in this universe since her childhood.
And as soon as she arrived in high school, she opted for a course adapted to her passion: theatre.
She appeared in a few television series as soon as she finished her studies in 2002, but it was really in 2004 that her career took off with her arrival in
Plus belle la vie
under the name of Ninon Chaumette.
She will stay there from start to finish, despite having a few breaks in 2014 and 2019. The actress plays occasionally in
Camping Paradis
and
Joséphine, guardian angel
but also, more recently, in
Léo Matteï: Minors' Brigade
.
Fabienne Karat
While she gets her first small role in the cinema in
The Truth if I lie!
2,
she finally pursues her career as an actress in the skin of Samia, a 17-year-old Franco-Algerian girl in the France 3 series. Singing, theater, alone on stage, nothing seems to escape Fabienne Carat.
She appeared punctually in the television series
Section de Recherches
,
Commissaire Magellan
and
Alice Nevers
before signing on for at least two seasons as Commander Jeanne Lorieux in
Section de Recherches
.
The 43-year-old woman has also participated in several television shows such as "Dance with the stars" in 2015, "Fort Boyard" in 2016 and 2019 and more recently for the 100th of "Search apartment or house" in 2021. Mom since 2021 d a little girl named Céleste, she has recently confirmed that she is in a relationship with Alain, a former candidate for “Married at first sight”.
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