Laura Smet (born 15 November 1983, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French actress. She is the daughter of rock musician Johnny Hallyday and actress Nathalie Baye. In 1986 Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote the song "Laura", which Johnny Hallyday later recorded. She changed schools numerous times growing up, and that she was sometimes picked on - for example for the fact that at a time when rap music was the fashion, her father was an old-fashioned rock'n'roller. She wanted initially to be a theatrical agent like her godfather, Dominique Besnehard In 1999 she left school and began studying theatre with Raymond Acquaviva2002 : Les Corps impatients (Eager Bodies), directed by Xavier Giannoli 2003 : La Femme de Gilles, directed by Frédéric Fonteyne 2004 : La Demoiselle d'honneur, directed by Claude Chabrol 2006 : Le Passager de l'été, directed by Florence Moncorgé-Gabin 2007 : UV, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner 2007 : L'Heure zéro, directed by Pascal Thomas 2008 : La Frontière de l'aube, directed by Philippe Garrel 2010 : Pauline et François, directed by Renaud Fély 2010 : Insoupçonnable, directed by Gabriel Le Bomin
