The Biography

Félicité Du Jeu (birth date and place not publicly listed) is a French actress, multilingual in French, Italian, Swedish, and English. She trained at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1992–1996), won the Prix Louis Jouvet (1997), and then studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), receiving a special commendation for the Ian Charleson Award for her role as Katherine in Henry V (2003, National Theatre). She is best known as DC Stella Goodman on the BBC's Waking the Dead (2005–2009, 36 episodes). In film, she has appeared in Casino Royale (2006, as French News Reporter), Munich (2005), A Good Year (2006), Enduring Love (2004), and Another Mother's Son (2017). On television she also had a recurring role as Fanny Caradec on TF1's Section de recherches (2010–2013, 24 episodes) and guest appearances on Poirot (Death on the Nile, 2004), Death in Paradise (2014), and Holby City (2019). In 2018 she founded the Pepperbox Theatre Company to support working mothers in the theatre industry.