She sang Le P’tit Quinquin des Ch’tis: Actress Jenny Cleeve died at 92.

Jenny Cleve began her career at the Conservatoire de Roubaix, where she won an honorary prize. After debuting on the boards and in television (in particular Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret), he took his first steps in cinema in Alejandro Marti’s Les Chemins de la violence (1973).

We find her as a maid, a nurse, a mother boss, a co-worker, a carnaval, and she already plays a grandmother in F… as Fairbanks in 1976, when she was only 46 years old.

In 1983, she interpreted perhaps her most striking role, that of Madame Montechiar, the nuanced character of “Pin Pony’s” mother (Alain Souchon) in Jean Becker’s Deadly Summer.

The film is a huge success and puts the actress in the center of attention, while she is limited to the role of “cinema mother”. Thus, she is the mother of Philippe Leotard (Winter 60), Elisa Servier (Partners of Nicole Garcia), Sandrine Bonner (The Best of Life), Patrick Braude (XY) or Miu Miu (Life the way I want it).

Since 1993, we have been co-hosting his cooking show taste it for me A show presented by Chef Piero de Lille that will run until 2008! So we see him hosting and playing a clerk in a benevolent show that is quickly becoming popular.

In the 1990s we see him in Germinal, shot in his native north, but also in Les Enfants du Marais or A Crime in Paradise. He works less in the 2000s, then Danny Boone calls him to his grandmother who sings. Sleep my little Quinquin Welcome to Ch’tis.

After another “grandma” role in Mother or Catch Me, she is last seen on screen in Baron noir season 1 episode 2, in which she discovers Kad Merad eight years later, who has moved on in Welcome to the Ch’. tis.

He died on February 17, 2023 at the age of 92.