--- name: "Caroline Proust" canonical: "https://film.one/person/caroline-proust" roles: ["Actor"] born: "18 November 1967" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T14:15:52.785088+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Caroline Proust Actor. Born 18 November 1967 in Le Vigan, Gard, France. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 18 November 1967, Le Vigan, Gard, France - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Proust, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q522225, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0698960/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76967 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Spiral*](https://film.one/tv/spiral.md) (86) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Caroline Proust > Caroline Proust plays police officers as workers, not heroes: small, fast, short of sleep and certain the rules are for other people. Laure Berthaud in *Spiral* is the proof, one of the great television detectives, and a part she would rather not be asked to repeat. Watch how Laure Berthaud comes into a room in *Spiral*. Caroline Proust arrives fast and low, already talking, as if the conversation began in the corridor and the room is getting in its way. She is small next to Thierry Godard's Gilou and never appears to notice. She smokes as if it were part of the job description and sleeps, when she sleeps, as if it were not. Nothing in the performance asks to be liked, and that is the reason it lasted eight series and the reason we watched all of them. The career before it was theatre first, from the early 1990s, and then screen parts through the decade: *Le Péril jeune* (1994), and *Le Cousin* (1997), where she played Fanny, a police officer, and put on the uniform she has been trying to take off ever since. *Spiral* began in 2005 and ended in 2020. Around it she made films, *Scorpion* (2007) and *Ca$h* (2008), and turned up in television made abroad, *The Tunnel* (2013) and *Death in Paradise* (2014). Since the commissariat closed there has been *Notre Dame* (2022) and *Marinette* (2023), and she has kept working on stage throughout, which is partly a choice and partly a defence. What she does that other actors in this genre do not is refuse the small vanities. Most television detectives are wrecks with good hair; Berthaud is a wreck, full stop, a worker with a squad to run and a life she runs badly, and Proust plays the bad decisions at exactly the same speed and with the same certainty as the good ones. We caught ourselves, more than once, wanting her to get away with something we would not forgive a real officer, and feeling slightly grubby about it, because she had not for a second asked us to take her side. Godard's Gilou and Fred Bianconi's Tintin are the men she is measured against, and the series is at its best when the three of them are in a car saying nothing. The cost of all this is obvious. She has been cast as the determined, unglamorous policewoman so often that the industry seems to have forgotten she can do anything else, and she has said so: "Give me nurse, give me everything, but not cop." The first run of *Spiral* is stiff, and the plots knot too tightly, and neither of those is her fault; start anyway, and stay. We would like to see someone hand her the nurse's uniform. We suspect she would wear it like a cop. ## Biography Caroline Proust is a French actress. She was born on 18 November 1967 in Le Vigan, Gard. She trained at the conservatoire in Montpellier and later at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris. Proust began her career in theatre before moving into film and television. She is best known internationally for playing Captain Laure Berthaud in the series *Spiral* (2005–2020). Other credits include roles in *The Cousin* (1997), *Ca$h* (2008), *The Tunnel* (2013), *Death in Paradise* (2014) and *Marinette* (2023). She has also appeared in stage productions such as *August: Osage County* and *A View from the Bridge*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Spiral* (2005), Fi1m 86, as Laure Berthaud — [page](https://film.one/tv/spiral.md) ## Complete filmography (30) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Au coeur de nos terres* (2026), as Adeline Levêque - *Mémoire vive* (2025), series, as Marthe - *Virage* (2024), as Louise Bach - *Marinette* (2023), as Elisabeth Loisel, coach of the France Team - *Cherchez la femme !* (2022), series, as (voice) - *Notre-Dame* (2022), series, as Gabrielle Varèse - *Journaliste(s)* (2021), Screenplay, Executive Producer, Director - *Une mort sans importance* (2019), as Claire Quémeneur - *Amnêsia* (2016), series, as Margaux - *Capitaine Marleau* (2015), series, as Sylvie - *The Tunnel* (2013), series, as Anne-Marie Delgado - *No One Believes Me* (2013), as Jeanne - *Death in Paradise* (2011), series, as Emilie Benoit - *Deadly Hitch* (2011), as Alice Lacamp - *Emma* (2011), as Léa - *The Moon Child* (2011), as Louise - *L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues* (2011), Acting - *La république des enfants* (2011), as Madeleine - *Le Cœur du sujet* (2009), as Paula - *Ca$h* (2008), as Léa - *The Orion Conspiracy* (2008), as Paula - *Scorpion* (2007), as Léa / Elodie - *Spiral* (2005), series, as Laure Berthaud — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/spiral.md) - *Grossesse Nerveuse* (2004), as Judith - *Green Paradise* (2004), as Sophie - *The Woman I'm Watching* (1998), as Emilie - *The Cousin* (1997), as Fanny - *Ouvrez le chien* (1997), as Marianne - *Good Old Daze* (1995), as Une hippie - *La mort d'une vache* (1990), as Caroline ## Gallery - ![Saluts à l'issue d'une représentation de "C'est si simple l'amour" au Théâtre de l'Atelier, le 7 juin 2026, avec: Charles Berling, Caroline Proust, Bérengère Wa](https://film.one/media/person/897867/gallery-65fa880a77a8.jpg) Saluts à l'issue d'une représentation de "C'est si simple l'amour" au Théâtre de l'Atelier, le 7 juin 2026, avec: Charles Berling, Caroline Proust, Bérengère Wa — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/C%27est_si_simple_l%27amour_saluts.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Caroline Proust](https://film.one/media/person/897867/gallery-cbad8857bd27.jpg) Caroline Proust — YanRB, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Caroline_Proust_2016.jpg/1280px-Caroline_Proust_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![le Jury lors de Reims Polar 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/897867/gallery-12b4c0c2232b.jpg) le Jury lors de Reims Polar 2025. — Gérald Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Jury_reimspolar_2025_1560528.jpg/1280px-Jury_reimspolar_2025_1560528.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![le Jury lors de Reims Polar 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/897867/gallery-0971bf9711c5.jpg) le Jury lors de Reims Polar 2025. — Gérald Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Jury_reimspolar_2025_1560534.jpg/1280px-Jury_reimspolar_2025_1560534.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Caroline Proust](https://film.one/media/person/897867/gallery-cb9450e6244a.jpg) Caroline Proust — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2020: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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