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.

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.

In 1997, when she turned 18, she enrolled at the French drama school Cours Florent to train as an actor.

In March 2010, Myriam Boyer secured her a role in La Vie devant soi, a television adaptation of Romain Gary's novel of the same name, published in English as The Life Before Us.

The following year, actor-director Charlotte de Turckheim chose her to portray a main character in the comedy Mince Alors!

Lola Dewaere in 2012