Ингрид Шовен

Ingrid Chauvin (born 3 October 1973) is a French television and stage actress, known for her roles in the miniseries Méditerranée, Dolmen, and the police procedural series Femmes de loi.

Ingrid Chauvin was born on 3 October 1973 in Argenteuil in the department of Val-d'Oise, to a lifeguard father and a watercolor painter and documentalist mother. Despite her parents' opposition, Ingrid sought to become an actress since she was a child. Her parents then divorced when she was eight. After that, her mother had a relationship with a computer scientist, who is seven years younger than she. They had a son, Jérémy, who is now a tenor.

Since her childhood, Ingrid Chauvin wanted to become a veterinarian or an actress. After her studies, she worked as a professional make-up artist, especially for pornographic productions, while attending some castings for modeling. At age 19, due to her physical beauty, she posed for a number of photographers and had her first castings. Her first earnings allowed her to take acting classes. She was noticed by AB Production, which led to small roles on television.

It was in the theater that Ingrid Chauvin got a serious start in her career, acting alongside Michel Roux in Tromper n'est pas jouer by Patrick Cargill in 1997 at the Théâtre Saint-Georges in Paris, and later with Michel Creton in Sylvia in 1998 at the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris. She revived these roles on a tour throughout France.

In 1997, Ingrid Chauvin participated in an episode of the p…