Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française

The sociétaires of the Comédie-Française are chosen from among the pensionnaires who have been in the company a year or more.

They are decided upon in the course of a general assembly of the company's administrative committee, made up of 6 existing sociétaires, the senior sociétaire, and the general administrator. A pensionnaire is thus named a societaire by a decree of the Ministry of Culture, from names put forward by the general administrator of the Comédie-Française. On becoming a sociétaire, an actor automatically becomes a member of the Société des Comédiens-Français and receives a share of the profits as well as receiving a number of shares in the société to which he or she is contractually linked.

After his or her retirement, a sociétaire can continue to act, becoming an honorary sociétaire. The senior member of the Comédie-Française is not the oldest sociétaire, but the sociétaire who has been with the company longest (since their entering it as a pensionnaire).

Some Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française

17th century

  • Michel Baron (1680)
  • Rosimond (1680)
  • Armande Béjart (1680)
  • Mademoiselle de Brie (1680)
  • Champmeslé (1680)
  • Marie Champmeslé (1680)
  • Mademoiselle Du Croisy (1680)
  • Charles Varlet de La Grange (1680)
  • Mademoiselle La Grange (1680)
  • Raymond Poisson, known as Belleroche (1680)
  • Brécourt (1682)
  • Dancourt (1685)
  • Jean Quinault (1695)
  • Charlotte Desmares (1699)

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

  • Alexandre Pavloff (2002)
  • Françoise Gillard (2002)
  • Céline Samie (2004)
  • Clotilde de Bayser (2004)
  • Jérôme Pouly (2004)
  • Laurent Stocker (2004)
  • Pierre Vial (2005)
  • Guillaume Gallienne (2005)
  • Laurent Natrella (2007)
  • Michel Vuillermoz (2007)
  • Elsa Lepoivre (2007)
  • Christian Gonon (2009)
  • Julie Sicard (2009)
  • Loïc Corbery (2010)
  • Léonie Simaga (2010)
  • Serge Bagdassarian (2011)
  • Hervé Pierre (2011)
  • Bakary Sangaré (2013)
  • Pierre Louis-Calixte (2013)
  • Christian Hecq (2013)
  • Nicolas Lormeau (2014)
  • Gilles David (2014)
  • Stéphane Varupenne (2015)
  • Suliane Brahim (2016)
  • Adeline d'Hermy (2016)
  • Georgia Scalliet (2017)
  • Jérémy Lopez (2017)
  • Clément Hervieu-Léger (2018)
  • Benjamin Lavernhe (2019)
  • Sébastien Pouderoux (2019)
  • Didier Sandre (2020)
  • Christophe Montenez (2020)

See also

  • List of all the sociétaires on the Comédie-Française site
  • Comédie-française (1658-1900): Liste alphabétique des sociétaires at Google Books