Catherine Laborde, who has just joined the stars at 73, endorsed Madame Météo de TF1’s habit for 28 years. But, before that, she exercised a completely different job and even participated in a strike!
Catherine Laborde went. The one who made the rain and the good weather on TF1 for almost three decades died at 73 years old, announced TF1 on January 28. The weather host, who had Lewy’s body disease, had started her career by exercising a completely different job that fascinated her …
Catherine Laborde: What was her job before the weather?
After having followed the courses of the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Bordeaux, where she is from, Catherine Laborde went up in Paris to become … an actress! From the early 1970s, it obtained some roles, especially in the series The people of Mogadorbroadcast on the first chain of the ORTF in 1972, but also in an episode of the series The investigations of Commissioner Maigret in 1975 and even in the theater in the play The churchfrom Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Catherine Laborde, actress and trade unionist: “It would be …”
Moreover, the one who later became Madame Météo de TF1 was very involved in compliance with the rights of young actors. She was union representative in SFA, the French Syndicat des Artistes-Perforrets, and had notably explained to the television magazine Full lightsin the 1970s, that she had a very precise idea to assert the interests of young actors having trouble making themselves known.
Catherine Laborde had imagined a file that would lighten the names of the actors. “”How can people want to use you if they don’t know you? So you would need a file (…) which serves as a reference to all potential employers“She said, adding that managers,”especially discussed money“And don’t”not found a job“.
How did Catherine Laborde become Madame Météo?
“”When you are an actor, you play at all costs (…) To work and so that people don’t forget you. Result ? We agree to work in companies where we have absolutely no social security coverage and where we are faced with problems of simple human respect“, She also castigated. In 1983, the young actress had also participated in the actors’ strike to obtain better rights.
Her involvement did not prevent her from taking a completely different path in 1988, when she applied to the offer of TF1 who was looking for a weather host, on the advice of her sister Françoise Laborde who worked in the economic service of the channel . We know the rest …
