Sad news for fans of Girls next door. Dan Simkovitch, the interpreter of Madame Bellefeuille in the famous French series by Jean-Luc Azoulay, died on May 20, 2020, as her daughter announced on her Facebook account Sunday, May 24, 2020. “Dan, my mom, died on Wednesday”, said Yaëlle Simkovitch, revealing the causes of her death. “The cancer with which she has been living for more than four years has put an end to her strength. She told me during our last conversation that she fought as much as she could. " Through a magnificent text, Yaëlle Simkovitch wanted to draw a portrait of her adored mother. “Everyone who knew her, whether five minutes or sixty years, knows that he was an extraordinary person and that we loved her and me very much […] He was a talented humorist which made laughter and brought joy to thousands of people, always choosing the spirit and the positivity as compass for its humor however stripping. In the 1980s, a critic nicknamed it Coluche feminine. There is a parallel world where she had the success she deserved and her sketches are known to all. Most people will surely have seen her in her role as Mme Bellefeuille in Les Filles d´à Côté. A role very different from the style of the texts she wrote and played on stage but which allowed crowds of people to discover her unparalleled fantasy. "
Dan Simkovitch, actress and author
Born in 1954, Dan Simkovitch became known in the 1990s through the series The girls next door and The New Girls next door. However, it appeared several times on the small screen, in addition to its performance in these two programs. In 1991, we can see it in Operation Corned-Beef alongside Christian Clavier, then, a year later, in a column by Antoine de Caunes for the show Nowhere else. In 2005, she is seen in the TV movie A cooking teacher. Finally, lovers of Groland were also able to see it in their television set. But Dan Simkovitch was not only an actress! She also made a short film, Scene, and wrote a few plays, short stories and even a single, Dolly Prasne sees life in pink. In 2014, she played her new One Woman Show, How well I am. The following year, she participated in the second season of the cooking show Norbert, office clerk. Finally, in 2017, she played the role of Rosa, Hugo's mother, in another series by AB Productions co-founder Jean-Luc Azoulay, The Mysteries of love. On the announcement of his death, many tributes were published on social networks.
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