Céline Mauge began drama classes at a young age, starting her career as a professional actress at twenty. Her experiences have traversed many different techniques and styles, on stage or screen, culminating in 2015 with The Molière Award in the “Best Subsidised Work” category for Les Coquelicots des Tranchées directed by Xavier Lemaire, an award shared by the entire cast of the play.
Her voice is well-known in France: She has dubbed Meredith Grey in Grey’s Anatomy, Sienna Miller, and many others actresses as well as cartoon characters such as: Alex and Mandy in the hit series Totally Spies.
It was Boris Bergman’s Rock Opéra La Nuit du Rat in 2006, in which Céline played the part of Chloratis, that triggered the transition towards music, her first calling. Céline undertook a deep commitment to working on her singing voice and to learning the guitar. A few years and over 60 pop/folk covers later, using the name Laughing Seabird, she wrote and composed her first album, And I become, arranged by Michel Peteau.
With her second album, The Transformation Place, arranged by Emmanuel Heyner, she has stayed faithful to her elegant, enchanting and energising folk-pop.
Two songs from the album can be found on the original soundtrack of the film Ça tourne à Saint Pierre et Miquelon directed by Christian Monnier in which Céline plays herself (more or less…:-) as a singer and actress… dragged into a poetic and whimsical quest for identity.
