Family Hampton was born in Paris to an English father and a Polish mother who was a dance teacher. Rebecca Hampton has a sister, Justine, and a brother, Jean-Baptiste Pellerin, who is a photographer.
Career As a child, she played in
Chantal Goya's show
The Flying Shoe. She began acting in the cinema in 1985, in the short film . In the 1990s, she played various roles in
Mediawan Thematics productions on
TF1: notably a groupie in an episode of
Hélène et les Garçons in 1992, in '''' in 1995 where she played Clarisse, a man-eater who was Daniel's unfaithful girlfriend in 19 episodes and also played Patricia in ''
Les Vacances de l'amour'' in 1997. In 2001, she made an appearance in the action film
Yamakasi: Modern Samurai. The same year, she appeared in the video for the song
Le vent nous portera by the rock group
Noir Désir in which she played the little boy's mother as a brunette. She then became known to the general public between 2002 and 2004, after appearing on the entertainment show '''' hosted by and , first on
TF1 in which she accompanied the people invited in waiting to find out who invited them. Then, she played in the successful soap opera
Plus belle la vie on
France 3 from 2004 to 2022, playing the character of Céline Frémont in regular episodes, as well as in special TV films broadcast occasionally in the first part of the evening on the same channel . She appeared in
TF1 police series such as
Commissaire Moulin between 2003 and 2004,
La Crim' in 2004 and
Julie Lescaut in 2005. In 2008, on the same channel, she played one of the main roles, commissioner Paloma Ruiz, in the series '
alongside Alexandre Brasseur and '. In 2009 and 2010, she played in the theatre in the boulevard play
Attache-moi au radiator, by
Raffy Shart, with
Anthony Delon and , then in 2010 and 2011 in ''Le Chêne d'Allouville'' with . In 2011, at the
Studio des Ursulines, she paid tribute to the actress and singer
Colette Renard (died in 2010), with
François Leterrier, Jacques Ferchit, Alexandre Laborde and Sinan Bertrand as part of a
Nod to Colette Renard by Pascal Maurice known as Paul Melchior. On 4 August 2007, 20 August 2011, 25 August 2012, 19 August 2017 and 13 August 2022, she participated in the game show
Fort Boyard on
France 2. On 25 April 2013, she announced that she was expecting a baby and that she wishes to move away from film sets during her maternity leave. She wrote
Lettres de là-bas, a book of correspondence with Pascal Maurice known as Paul Melchior, published in September 2013, followed by
New letters from there in 2018. She appeared again on television (notably in
Touche pas à mon poste !) and presented the show
PBLV part en live! alternating with
Alexandre Fabre from 28 September to 7 October. She announced her return to
Plus belle la vie on 11 November 2013. She notably played in a prime-time special of the series ''
on TF1, in TV films from the Meurtres à...'' and '
series and in episodes of ' and '
for France 3, as well as in the series ' and '''' on TF1. In 2023, she starred in the play
For Better and for Worse, alongside
Booder. The same year, she again co-hosted ''Y'a que la vérité quicompte
with '', when the show returned to
C8. == Personal life ==