The actress Charlotte Valandrey, who appeared on the small screen in “Les Cordier judge et cop” and “Tomorrow belongs to us” and awarded in Berlin for the film “Rouge Baiser”, died at the age of 53 on Wednesday July 13.
It was one of the essential faces of the small screen. Charlotte Valandrey, who played Myriam Cordier in the series Les Cordier, Juge et Flic for nine seasons then Judge Laurence Moiret in the daily Tomorrow belongs to us, died on Wednesday July 13, 2022. She was 53 years old.
Born Anne-Charlotte Pascal in 1968, she made her film debut in 1985 under the pseudonym Charlotte Valandrey. In Rouge Baiser by Véra Belmont, she portrays Nadia, a young Communist Youth activist who discovers love and the contradictions of her political choices. Presented at the Berlinale in 1986, the film earned him the festival’s Best Actor Award, followed by a nomination for the César for Best Newcomer.
The same year, Charlotte Valandrey learned of her HIV status. She will only reveal her situation (and the heart transplant she underwent after several heart attacks, a first in France for a person with HIV) in 2005, in the book love in the blood, freeing themselves from a heavy secret and breaking a taboo. The book was adapted for the screen in 2007 in a TV movie where she plays her own role.
Meanwhile, Charlotte Valandrey has become a major figure on the small screen, shining in the detective series The Cordier, Judge and Cop who made the best hours of TF1 from 1992 to 2005. Multiplying roles and appearances in various TV movies, series and programs while distinguishing herself in theater and in writing, the actress finds a recurring role from 2017 to 2019 in tomorrow belongs to us. She leaves the daily series in July 2020 in agreement with the production, regretting that the intrigues around her character are not renewed enough.
Charlotte Valandrey had undergone emergency surgery last June when her second heart was “come to an end” as she explained on his Instagram account. This new transplant will unfortunately not have taken as indicated by his relatives in an AFP press release. The actress had recently appeared in the thriller Meurtres à Mulhouse and in the first episode of season 9 of Léo Matteï last February.
Also active in dubbing, the actress had lent her voice to a few feature films such as Catwoman, Assault sur le central 13, Hostage or The Ghost Writer and especially Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in which she dubbed journalist Rita Skeeter (played on screen by Miranda Richardson).