Plus belle la vie: what has become of Aurélie Vaneck (Ninon Chaumette) since her departure from the series?

For nearly 10 years, Aurélie Vaneck played Ninon Chaumette in “Plus belle la vie”. Since leaving the series, she has been rather discreet on screen. So, what is the actress up to?

All fans of Plus belle la vie remember Ninon Chaumette. Played by Aurélie Vaneck since 2004, this lively and self-confident young woman followed her father Vincent (Serge Dupire) to Marseille when he moved there after separating from his wife.

A high school student, Ninon then joined Sciences Po to become a journalist. She had several love stories over the years, but the man of her life was none other than Rudy Torres, played by Ambroise Michel.

It was also with her acting partner that Aurélie Vaneck decided to leave the France 3 daily show in 2014.It was an incredible school. When I arrived on set (…), I had just left school. I filmed for ten years in the series, and I did more than 2,000 episodes. I had to very quickly integrate the vocabulary of the profession in order to know what we were talking about, I had to learn to be extremely efficient because, on the set of a daily, time is very important.” she declared to the microphone of AlloCiné about her experience.

The writers then write a romantic departure for the two characters: having landed a job in Paris, Rudy moves there with Ninon, pregnant with their first child, and the couple thus begins a new chapter in their life together…

Attempt at a spin-off on Ninon and Rudy

In 2016, Aurélie Vaneck and Ambroise Michel returned to their respective roles for a single derived from More beautiful lifedestined to become a recurring character if successful. In Une Vie en Nord, Rudy settles in Mons-en-Pévèle, a charming village a few kilometers from Lille, where his father officiates as a priest. For Ninon, who reluctantly followed her companion into this new environment, the charm does not work. Rudy, on the other hand, has to deal with a mysterious illness that is eating away at the village's inhabitants…

If the adventure of this spin-off ends there, Aurélie Vaneck and Ambroise Michel nevertheless have the opportunity to meet again during the 28th and penultimate prime of More beautiful life“Reunion”, featuring a prom organized by the students of the Vincent Scotto high school. Dounia Coesens (Joanna) and Coline d'Inca (Sybille) are also part of the show for an exceptional episode.

After Plus Belle la Vie

After More beautiful lifeAurélie Vaneck multiplies the appearances on the small screen. We see her in an episode of Joséphine, ange gardien, then in an episode of Crimes parfaits, where she plays a pretty seductress coldly murdered by the organizer of her wedding.

In 2018, she joined the cast of Camping Paradis. In episode 4 of season 10, the actress plays Agnès, a vacationer who seems to be related to Antoine (Benoît Michel) and Jeanne (Virginie Ledieu), who came to scatter the ashes of Jacques Rivière, a seasonal worker that André (Thierry Heckendorn) had known well.

Subsequently, Aurélie Vaneck played opposite Julien Baumgartner in an episode of the seventh season of Cain, then obtained a supporting role in Jugée coupable, a 6-episode summer saga on France 3, alongside Garance Thenault, Pierre-Yves Bon, Jérôme Anger, and Vincent Winterhalter.

In 2021, the actress joined the cast of the hit TF1 series, Léo Matteï, Brigade des mineurs. In the first episode of season 8, entitled “Le Silence de la mer”, she slips into the shoes of a mother confronted with the harassment of her child in the sports world.It’s always a gift when a role allows you to open other windows on yourself. This is the first time I’ve played a mother of teenagers when I have three children in my life! It was great, because I really have something to embody. As I approach forty, I can tackle more complex characters.“, she confided to our colleagues at Pocket TV.

A committed actress

Indeed, Aurélie Vaneck does not hesitate to carry strong intrigues. At the end of 2019, she notably made a return in the 16th season of More beautiful lifeduring an arc where her character led an investigation into sexual assaults and revealed that she herself had been raped by one of her teachers when she was in high school.

“It was a pleasure to be back in this setting. (…) I received a lot of testimonies from women and young girls saying that it was good to see the subject brought to the screen during a prime time slot, and to see this vicious side of silence and the feeling of guilt of the victim staged in this way. It shows that talking is a way out, a first step towards healing.“, she shared on the AlloCiné microphone.

Similarly, in season 5 of The Intern, the actress dons a lawyer's robe to play Maître Sophie Pardo in an episode focusing on sexual harassment at work.

Finally, in 2024, Aurélie Vaneck participated voluntarily in the film Public Enemy No. 0 alongside Laurent Torteroglio, Marc Lafaurie, Danièle Evenou and Jean-François Malet.

All the recipes for this comedy, directed by Amalric Gérard (a former More beautiful life), were allocated to international research on the Mecp2 gene, conductor of our DNA, responsible for Rett Syndrome (leading cause of multiple disabilities in women) and involved in many diseases (autism, bipolarity, breast and colon cancer, etc.).

Coming soon in a police series on France 2

Aurélie Vaneck will soon be back on the small screen in Above Suspicion, presented at the 2024 Séries Mania Festival.

Created by Franck Ollivier (Leo Matteï, Found guilty), this 4-part series follows the journey of a mother, who is at once a seductress, a crook and a liar, who, since her youngest age, has always had to fight for her survival. In turn victim and criminal, she will find herself in the crosshairs of an investigator from the Gendarmerie Research Brigade, following the discovery of a corpse in a burnt-out car.

“This is a story inspired by true events.,” the main interpreter, Odile Vuillemin, explained to our colleagues at Leisure TV.

Also featuring Joyce Bibring, Yann Sundberg, Laurent Gamelon and Fred Bianconi in the cast, this fiction will be directed by Philippe Dajoux, to whom we owe Le Village des Endormis with Lola Dewaere, and Mort sur la Piste, a TV film starring Jason Priestley.