Chantal Nobel (born Chantal Bonneau, 23 November 1948) is a French actress.

Life and career

Chantal Nobel is mostly known for having played the main female role of Florence Berg in the French successful television series ''

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''. After having participated at the Dakar Rally with , her career brutally ended on 28 April 1985. After the broadcast of an episode of the television program ''Champs-Élysées'', she was victim of a terrible car accident in a Porsche 924 Carrera GT driven by the singer Sacha Distel, during the trip in the village of Maltaverne, a small village located next to

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. After six weeks in a

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, the face grievously injured and handicapped for life, she left the media to go to the South of France, ending at the same time the series ''Châteauvallon''. She filed a complaint against Sacha Distel, who was then sentenced to one year in prison for involuntary injuries. During her hospitalization in 1985, three paparazzi entered her hospital room to take pictures of her against her will. The affair was followed with a condemnation of the paparazzi. The jurisprudence of the

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of Paris on 17 March 1986, expanded the notion of domicile respect, indicating that the hospital room was considered as the private domicile of the patient during the recovery.

Personal life

Chantal Nobel was born in

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in the department of Seine-Maritime, and has an older brother named Jacky. She is married to Jean-Louis Julian, a jeweller at

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and Courchevel, with whom she has one daughter named Anne-Charlotte. She also had from a previous relationship with producer Jacques-Henri Marin another daughter named Alexandra, born in 1971.

Filmography

Films

* '' The Black Hand'' (1968) ... Éléonore * ''La Honte de la famille'' (1969) ... Valérie Maspi * ''La Grande Maffia...'' (1971) ... Mademoiselle Ducœurjoli * ''L'Odeur des fauves'' (1972) ... Marie Fulton * ''Le Permis de conduire'' (1974) ... the bank employee * ''Les murs ont des oreilles'' (1974) ... Claudine * ''Opération Lady Marlène'' (1975) ... Madame de Parcy * ''L'Année sainte'' (1976) ... a stewardess * ''Le Jour de gloire'' (1976) ... Mademoiselle Verger * ''Te marre pas ... c'est pour rire !'' (1982) ... Janine Royer, Marcello's assistant * ''Flics de choc'' (1983) ... Wanda Romanoff * ''Les parents ne sont pas simples cette année'' (1984) ... Alexandra Labruyère

Television

* ''Aurore et Victorien'' (1974) ... Aurore's older sister * ''La Lumière des justes'' (1979) ... Sophie de Champlitte / Sophie de Lambrefoux / Sophie Ozareff * ''Salut champion'' (1981) ... Juliette Majoureau * ''

'' (1985) ... Florence Berg

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nobel, Chantal 1948 births Living people 20th-century French actresses Actors from Rouen French rally co-drivers Dakar Rally co-drivers Sportspeople from Seine-Maritime