It would have been easy to have dismissed her early on as just another telegenic beauty in a cop show. But I wanted Beatrice to have this. France’s answer to “The Wire” and “Law & Order” begins its final season on MHz Choice. I’m walking like that? Proust played the stony-faced personal assistant of an unscrupulous property developer who is murdered at his luxurious island home. Only 18 left in stock (more on the way). Just before we meet she has been in discussions with her producers. Toutes les saisons d'Engrenages sont disponibles sur CANAL+ et myCANAL- - - - La fin de la saison 6 a laissé nos personnages dans un état de crise. There’s no doubt whom we’re rooting for. Making her début at a British event, a visibly delighted Proust admitted to being surprised at Spiral’s popularity in Britain. They don’t know yet what they will become.” Their father, and Proust’s former husband, is the César award-winning actor Clovis Cornillac, best known for playing Asterix on screen and for starring alongside Audrey Tautou in A Very Long Engagement (2004). Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. I’m talking like that? “When Ivo proposed the role to me, I asked … if I could speak with him to understand more than I read,” she says. Fred Bianconi, Caroline Proust, Audrey Fleurot and Philippe Duclos attend “Engrenages” Photocall on April 3, 2017 in Cannes, France. But Proust … The detectives offices are bleak and dirty. Caroline Proust, Laure Berthaud, has been the heart and soul of this series. Their toolbox includes blackmail, intimidation and a disingenuousness so routine it’s like breathing — you can tell they’re lying in the presence of their superiors because their lips are moving. Another, more apt, American comparison is to “The Wire,” but “Spiral” has been that show’s equal, or better, in each of those categories. Tourist landmarks and picturesque boulevards are scant; the Eiffel Tower occasionally appears in the hazy distance, like a mirage. Born on 18th November, 1967 in Le Vigan, Gard, France, she is famous for Captain Laure Berthaud in the French TV series Spiral. Released in France as Engrenages, the hard-hitting Parisian cop thriller Spiral is an international sensation. I played in August: Osage County [a touring production of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer prize-winning drama]. And after that I was proposed on TV for cop characters … Give me nurse, give me everything, but not cop.”. Her stage roles have included Ophelia, in a 1996 Hamlet directed by Philippe Adrien for Théâtre de la Tempête. Spiral's brilliant Caroline Proust will give at masterclass tomorrow, 7.30pm at Ciné Lumière at the Totally Serialized TV festival -- mike mulvihill Spiral is totally engrossing. Caroline Proust (Laure Berthaud) in Spiral Season 7 on MHz Choice. The last of these is much on Proust’s mind at the moment. In Spiral’s case, these include drugs, sex trafficking, terrorism and immigration. After reading the play, Proust had her doubts about playing Beatrice. Caroline Proust in Spiral Season 7 “ Spiral has been part of the MHz Choice DNA since our creation so it will be a bittersweet event for us when the series comes to an end,” said MHz Networks president and CEO Frederick Thomas. But Proust explains that she decided to paint her toenails for this barefoot production. She is in a relationship with actor Bruno Debrandt. All 12 episodes from the sixth series of the gritty French crime drama set in Paris.In this instalment, after Chief Inspector Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) returns to work early from maternity leave, she and her team are tasked with solving a murder case after an anonymous dismembered victim is discovered. “I don’t have time to do everything,” she says. The subterfuges and indiscretions engaged in by the judicial-police team at the heart of the show are not as spectacular as we’ve become accustomed to. See more ideas about actresses, caroline, french actress. The series features an all-star cast including Audrey Fleurot (A French Village) as attorney Joséphine Karlsson, who often finds herself at odds with Police Captain Laure Berthaud, played by Caroline Proust (The Tunnel), and Police Lieutenant Gilou Escoffier, played … Otherwise “Spiral” works its way through a satisfying valedictory season, less hair-raising and dire than earlier editions but in some ways more moving. FREE Shipping. You think we are going to tell a story about, ‘Oh, everything is nice in our nice world, our pink world’? She has twin 14-year-old daughters who are, themselves, “wondering what kind of work to do. Caroline Dubois/Son et Lumière, via Canal+. And the central characters, the fiercely determined police captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust, in a captivating, beautifully ragged performance) and her wild-man colleague and lover Gilles Escoffier, or Gilou (Thierry Godard), are hunkered down. See full bio » In 2014, she joined a classy cast including Nikki Amuka-Bird and Pippa Bennett-Warner for an episode of the BBC1 Caribbean whodunnit Death in Paradise. But the legacy of their maverick behavior — which had already driven away the strait-laced team member Tintin (Fred Bianconi) in one of the show’s major emotional arcs — is still central, as the talented young detective Ali (Tewfik Jallab) chafes under Laure’s leadership and considers a transfer. Saved by patounen patounen. Spiral. Ali Amrani (Tewfik Jallab) and Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) The discovery of a grotesque murder is the traditional way to begin a new series of Spiral , and this time around the cadaver belonged to a young Moroccan boy, nicknamed Shkun. Clara Bonnet joins the cast and is fine as a young judge trying to assert her control, but she doesn’t have time to make a strong impression. Toutes les saison d'Engrenages sont disponibles sur CANAL+ et myCANAL.- - - - La fin de la saison 6 a laissé nos personnages dans un état de crise. He’s in prison after taking the fall for their most recent well-intentioned criminality, and she’s back in charge of a unit that has been sidelined and is enjoying partial custody of the infant daughter she was incapable of caring for in the previous season. In 1994, she married Clovis Cornillac with whom she has twins, Alice and Lily, born in 2001. If there’s a complaint to make about the final season, it’s that Laure and Gilou are without either of the judges they worked with and against so entertainingly over the years, Clément (Grégory Fitoussi), killed in Season 5, and Roban (Philippe Duclos), retired at the end of Season 7. “It was very fun because they shoot in Guadeloupe. She smiles: “Marivaux is delicious to play.” More recently, she was in a Parisian production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, written by Nora and Delia Ephron. ‘You think that Berthaud could be happy?’ … Caroline Proust. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. She can switch smoothly between the loving woman and a tough lioness.” In some scenes, she alternates between despair and fury in a heartbeat. Proust has been typecast for years, not just because of Spiral but also because of her earlier role as a police officer in the film Le Cousin (1997), directed by Alain Corneau. The show’s eighth and final season begins with a shot of Sacré-Coeur, but the camera pans down to the working-class Barbès district, where the dead body of a homeless Moroccan teenager is found inside a launderette washing machine. “You remember the season?” she prompts jauntily. Details. C aroline Proust screeches up to a Paris cafe terrace on her bike in a mini-dress and red leather jacket, beaming a lipsticked smile. Proust is passionate and proud when talking about Spiral, and clearly loves Berthaud and her co-stars dearly, but she admits she is exhausted when they get to the end of filming a series. With Caroline Proust, Audrey Fleurot, Thierry Godard, Philippe Duclos. There are nods to the great tradition of the French caper film as the star-crossed Gilou gets drawn into a plot that clouds his future, and shades of noir as Laure ends up, literally, on a dark and lonely road. Van Hove’s groundbreaking production was first seen in 2014 at the Young Vic in London, with Mark Strong as Eddie and Nicola Walker as Beatrice. So I went to police school, I worked with real policemen.” She went on stakeouts and underwent physical training.