Claire Chazal actress: before Dead on the Beach, the ex-star of TF1 news had already played in several films – Grazia

A key personality in the French audiovisual landscape, Claire Chazal has left its mark on generations of viewers by embodying the 8 p.m. news on TF1 for more than twenty years. The journalist then continued her career on France Télévisions, where she hosted several cultural programs, before reinventing herself on YouTube by launching her own channel simply called
Claire’s.

Claire Chazal, not always where we expect her

Star of the small screen for more than thirty years, Claire Chazal has other strings to her bow. She wrote several books and she even had the opportunity to act on more than one occasion. It is not uncommon to see journalists playing their own role in films ou des
s̩ries. And Claire played the game in 1995, in an episode of the fourth season of the series The Cordiers, judge and cop Рas presenter of the TF1 news. Rebelote in
Paparazzi (1998), Leave quickly and come back late
(2007), Le code a changé (2009) or even Stars
80 (2012), But who killed Pamela Rose again? (2012),
The Teachers (2013), The Ch’tite family (2018) and the series Fiasco (2024). Ah, let’s not forget the cartoon
Finding Dory (2016).

But do you find a composition role on your CV? Yes ! In 2018, Claire Chazal starred in a detective TV film for France 3, The Dead of the Beachin which she lent her features to Évelyne Leroy-Duval, the deputy mayor of a Norman village shaken after a dead man was found on a landing beach.

Claire Chazal in a real role

“I was not offered a completely anachronistic role. This MP lives in Paris, she is not always in her constituency, so she is someone who is linked to political life, an environment that I knowhad confided Claire Chazal to Parisian à l’époque. I can imagine her reactions, she exercises a form of authority. In the end, it was a fairly easy role for me.”
But there is no question of looking at yourself on the screen: “I’ve always had trouble on TV! We always see details, unbearable pouts, but strangely, no one else notices them”she added.

Funny, in Le Mort de la plage, she gave the answer to Claire Borotrawho played the heroine of his first novel, The Teacherin a TV film broadcast on TF1 in 2000.