Lorie Pester

Birthday: 2 May 1982, Plessis Bouchard, Val d'Oise, France

Birth Name: Laure Pester

Height: 167 cm

Lorie, from her real name Laure Pester, keeps decisive values from her ten years practicing high-level figure skating. A couple months before the French Championship, an injury breaks down all her pro ...Show More

Lorie, from her real name Laure Pester, keeps decisive values from her ten years practicing high-level figure skating. A couple months before the French Championship, an injury breaks down all her projects and dreams. Although she won't be a professional figure skater, she wants the show to go on and becomes an artist. After a first experience on stage at the age of 15, she becomes the first French artist discovered on the Internet thanks to the broadcasting on this new media of her first single Près de moi. The success comes immediately and allows her to sign a contract with the major company Sony Music France. Everything is chained for this young artist of 19 years old. Her first album Près de toi sold more than one million copies. The phenomenon Lorie is on its way... In 2002, the album "Tendrement" confirms this success, and is rewarded by a Platinum Europe Awards. The new teenagers' idol meets her audience on stage. 400 000 spectators attend her concerts mixing singing, dancing and show. Lorie's success is exported worldwide. In 2003 she receives the World Music Award of the French artist who has sold the most albums in the world that year. Lorie grows up, her musical influences are diversified, and her sounds evolve too. Her album Attitudes is less teen-pop and more rock. The next one Rester la même launched in 2005 delivers zouk, rn'b and electro tones all around successful sounds. Besides Lorie tours in France, Belgium, Switzerland and French speaking islands. She performs 5 evenings in a row at the Palais Omnisport de Paris Bercy (the biggest covered concert hall in France).In 2007 Lorie becomes her own producer. The album 2lor en moi with more electronic sounds, begins the transition of the young artist to the mature woman, self-confident. After sharing her songs with her audience on stage again, Lorie takes a parenthesis in her career to be a comedian. In 2008, she associates her last name to her pseudo and become Lorie Pester, the actress. She plays the first role of a TV movie on ice skating, as a wink to her own experience. Broadcasted in France on Channel 1, this movie gathers more than 6.3 million viewers.Thanks to her international notoriety, she is contacted by The Young and the Restless team and makes an apparition on several episodes on this worldwide famous series.In 2010 she shoots with Alain Delon in a new TV movie for Channel 1 (One more husband). Real success with more than 7.4 million viewers, this movie confirms one more time the comedian gift of this multi-talented artist.2011 is a big come back to music with a 6th album « Regarde moi which stays on electro sounds. Free from all contract with her major company after this album, Lorie works on a new CD on her own label LMD2. Danse comes out in 2012 and offers revival songs rearranged with dancing and happy tones. Her love for dance, she'll prove it too in the third season of Dancing with the stars at the end of 2012. Always looking for new challenges ahead, Lorie becomes TV presenter in the show « Opening act » broadcasted on Channel E! Official voice of Tinker Bell in France since 2008, Lorie dubs all the movies for Disney including « Tinker Bell and the secret of the wings » launched in movie theaters in November 2012.2013 is the year of new projects for the actress. At the beginning of the year she shoots with Mimie Mathy an episode of Joséphine guardian angel (broadcasted on October on Channel 1, it will gather almost 7 million people) and also plays her own role in the TV series ZAK. At the International Movie Festival in Beijing, she meets the movie director Jean-Marc Minéo and is offered her first role in a cinema movie in Gates of the sun (Algeria forever)" which will be broadcasted this next autumn 2014. In May she realizes one of her dreams and climbs the famous steps at Cannes Festival. Beginning of August she shoots the short movie Keys me of Pascal Sid.The actress left again up the dancer during the "Dancing with the Stars" tour for twenty dates between late December 2013 and late February 2014. In April 2014 she met Tinker Bell again in the new Disney cartoon "Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy" and walked once again on the red carpet at the International Film Festival in Beijing. In May she shot the short movie "A dog's life" realized by Cyril Ferment. Never short of ideas, she keeps working on in parallel on many ideas and desires. Hide