In “Syndrome E”, launched this evening on TF1, Jennifer Decker bursts the screen in the role of Lucie Henebelle, the investigator imagined by the novelist Franck Thilliez. The opportunity to look into the career of this resident of the Comédie-Française.
After Aim for the heart, carried by Claire Keim and Lannick Gautry, TF1 draws this evening Syndrome E, its new polar series which should not fail to create the event since this thriller in six episodes is none other than the adaptation of the novel eponymous by Franck Thilliez, which depicts the meeting between the two heroes of the writer: Franck Sharko and Lucie Henebelle.
Two cops, played by Vincent Elbaz and Jennifer Decker from the Comédie-Française, who will have to team up to overcome a complex investigation with multiple challenges. Indeed, as corpses are found with their brains ripped out, Sharko and Henebelle must also unravel the mystery behind a series of disappearances of children and a disturbing film from the 60s that causes those who watch it to behave strangely. and dangerous.
And if Syndrome E has many faces in its cast that we no longer need to present, from Vincent Elbaz to Emmanuelle Béart, via Michèle Bernier, Kool Shen, Bérengère Krief, and Dominique Blanc, viewers fond of thrillers may well be wondering who is the actress who lends her features to Lucie Henebelle. Because despite a rich and extensive career, on the boards as on the screen, Jennifer Decker is not (yet) an actress very well known to the general public.
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Jennifer Decker, from the Comédie-Française to the world of Franck Thilliez
Passionate about dramatic art, Jennifer Decker first flourished on stage by exploring essentials of the classical register. In 2001, the young artist slipped into the skin of the Capulet’s daughter in the revisit Juliet and Romeodirected by Irina Brook.
In 2006, the actress multiplies the projects. Daughter of Alexandra Vandernoot and Didier Flamand in Christoph Schaub’s film Jeune Homme, she worked alongside James Franco and Jean Reno in the American production Flyboys. France 2 viewers then discover her in the skin of Dauphine Marie-Joseph in Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, a historical saga carried by Hélène de Fougerolles and Vincent Perez.
Over the years and projects, Jennifer Decker has given on screen the reply to partners such as Jean-Baptiste Maunier (Hellphone), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Error of the bank in your favor) and Simon Abkarian (Les amants naufragés ).
But it was in September 2011 that her career took a new turn, when she became a resident at the Comédie-Française. A great opportunity that allows him to immerse himself in the worlds of Victor Hugo, Molière, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky or even Marivaux.
Currently, spectators can also find her at the Comédie-Française in the role of Regan, King Lear’s daughter, in a new staging of Shakespeare’s eponymous play alongside Denis Podalydès and Marina Hands in particular. And Jennifer Decker will also be featured later in the 2022-23 season.Angels in Americaa new stage version directed by Arnaud Desplechin.
But for the moment, it is on TF1, from tonight, that we will be able to discover her in her first major role in a series thanks to Syndrome E. in which her character of Henebelle will have to undertake a journey to the borders of the strange in order to put an end to experiments of which she herself seems to have been the victim a long time ago. An entire program.