Monique (Drame en trois actes)

In Drame en trois actes, the French adaptation of Agatha Christie's Three Act Tragedy for the TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, Monique is a student at Cours Semenoff, an acting school run by Macha Semenoff and a classmate of Alice Avril. See does not have a parallel from the original novel. She is present when at the party where Léon Verneuil is poisoned. Together with fellow students Jean Ollivier and Lydia, Monique also believes that Alice is the poisoner and begins to shun her. Monique is portrayed by Samira Mameche.

Unlike Jean and Lydia, Laurence actually questions Monique in detail. Laurence had observed a theatre class where Monique put up an act depicting intense hatred. Laurence also discovered that Monique had been in and out of mental hospitals for bouts of violent dementia. In answer to Laurence's questions, Monique said she believed Macha Semenoff killed Léon. According to Monique, Macha hates all her students and was out to kill them all. Monique considers Macha to be like her. When they look at others, there arises a desire to kill. However Monique insists that she cannot kill a person. She once killed a dog and also a crow which she hung up in Macha's room. She also tied a rope into a noose in the room to scare Macha. Monique admits that she did all this because she enjoyed hurting people.