Actress Laurence Badie, known for her numerous roles in theatre, cinema and television, but also for her dubbing in animated series, has just died at the age of 96.
Actress Laurence Badie, a familiar face and voice on the big and especially the small screen, has just died at the age of 96, her agent announced to AFP.
“She died this (Thursday) morning at the age of 96 in Brittany,” Patrick Goavec said.
A great theater actress, she performed the classical repertoire for the first time in Avignon from The Imaginary Illness to The School of Women, passing through A Midsummer Night’s Dream under the direction of Jean Vilar, Laurence Badie was known to the general public above all for his television roles.
She was quickly assigned maid roles. “Because people lack imagination, as soon as I had to play a little waitress, I was hired. I played a lot of them,” she explained.
With her full name Laurence Dolores Badie-Lopes, she was born on June 15, 1928 in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. She studied for a year at HEC but preferred theatre. And she takes lessons with the actor Julien Bertheau.
Preference for comic roles
During an audition, she got confused and said “Oh shit!”. “We have to take what she said was ‘shit'”, decides the director, a certain Georges Wilson who takes her to Jean Vilar’s TNP (National Popular Theatre), where she remains for almost ten years.
Already with a predilection for comic roles. “The best years of my life! Where I learned everything, in contact with the great actors: Gérard Philipe, Philippe Noiret, Maria Casarès”.
He made his film debut in 1952, with The Life of an Honest Man by Sacha Guitry and Forbidden Games by René Clément. We also saw her in La Traversée de Paris by Claude Autant-Lara, or The Passionate Life of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincente Minnelli. He also shot for Alain Resnais in Muriel ou le Temps d’un retour, La Guerre est finite, Mon uncle d’Amérique, and for François Truffaut in La Peau Douce.
Voice of Casper the Ghost and Vera in Scooby-Doo
But it was her participation in the game show The Academy of Nine in the 1980s, and her dubbing of the character Vera in the Scooby-Doo cartoon that made her popular with the general public. She has often lent her recognizable voice to dubbing. She was therefore the voice of the ghost Casper, in Casper and his friends.
He has also voiced characters in feature films such as Kuzco, the Lost Emperor and Kuzco 2, Rox and Rouky 2 and Justin and the Legend of Knights. He eventually lent his voice to many characters in the animated series, such as Clementine, Daddy Long Legs, Detective Bogey.
Laurence Badie was also one of the figures of the show Au théâtre ce soir, broadcast on television in the 70s and 80s. After having represented a large part of the classical repertoire, Molière, Shakespeare, Musset or Beaumarchais, the boulevard theater would be his universe for decades . She acts in particular in Guitry’s comedies but, above all, the public flocks for a year and a half to see her alongside Louis de Funès in “Oscar”, directed by Pierre Mondy.
Laurence Badie also appears in Love on a Plateau, a play by Isabelle Mergault, in 2011, or All the Pleasure is Ours by Ray Cooney.
2024-01-11 12:21:56
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