Lola Dewaere

Lola Dewaere (born 4 December 1979), also known as Lola Céleste Marie Bourdeaux, is a French actress well known for her portrayal of the resourceful and empathetic police commander Raphaëlle Coste in the television series Astrid et Raphaëlle — broadcast in the United States by PBS under the title Astrid — alongside Sara Mortensen, the trilingual actress who portrays Astrid, an autistic and brilliantly innovative criminologist.

Biography

Lola Dewaere is the daughter of the late actor Patrick Dewaere and Élisabeth "Elsa" Malvina Chalier. She is the half-sister of Angèle Herry-Leclerc, born in 1974 to Dewaere and the actress Miou-Miou.

After her father — heavily indebted as a consequence of his drug addiction — took his own life in his Paris house in 1982, his widow, “Elsa” Chalier, needing to work to help discharge the debts of the estate, entrusted the three-year-old Lola into the care of her maternal grandparents, residing in Saint-Lambert-du-Lattay, Maine-et-Loire. After a somewhat difficult period of elementary school, she returned to live with her mother in Paris and continued her education at a private Catholic school, Saint-Michel-de-Picpus, from which she was expelled because of her rebellious attitude and refusal to accept authority.

Around the age of 16, she says, she discovered several of her father's films, including Adieu Poulet (The French Detective, 1975), La Meilleure Façon de marcher (“The Best Way to Walk,” 1976), Coup de tête (“Hothead,” 1979), and Psy (1981), which she said she liked. In 1997, when she turned 18, she enrolled at the French drama school Cours Florent to train as an actor. After a serious car accident in 2001, she began working for the women's magazine Jalouse, later working in real estate. In 2007, she began her career as an actor.