She is the daughter of Romanian dancer and violinist Doina Trandabur, who fled to France to escape Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's regime in Communist Romania.

She studied economics and English, taking comedy classes at the same time in Antibes and then moving to America on a campus in Austin, Texas.

In 1979, along with her best friend, she was victim of a car accident that resulted in two years of hospitalisation, a long convalescence and several months of reeducation.

[3] She made her television début in 1988 in the humorous programme La Classe hosted by Fabrice every evening on FR3, where she met Pierre Palmade, Muriel Robin and Jean-Marie Bigard.

[citation needed] Michèle Laroque was married to theatre director Dominique Deschamps for a brief period and later divorced.