Clotilde de Bayser ・ Comédie-Française

Joined the Comédie-Française on the 7th of March 1997. Became the 509th sociétaire on the 1st of January 2004

Clotilde de Bayser was appointed pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française on the 7th of March 1997 and made her debut by playing Natalia Petrovna in Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country directed by Andrei Smirnoff. The following season, she played Palmis in Corneille’s Suréna by Anne Delbée and Hortense in Marivaux’s Le Legs by Jean-Pierre Miquel. In 2000, she reunited with Mr Miquel for Molière’s Misanthrope and the title role in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. In 2001, she played Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice directed by Andrei Serban, while in 2003 she portrayed Maria Yefimovna Grekovna in Chekhov’s Platonov as staged by Jacques Lassalle.

On the 1st of January 2004, she became the 509th sociétaire of the Company and played the role of Maman in Marie NDiaye’s Papa doit manger under the direction of Andrei Engel. The following season, she embraced three Scandinavian authors, Strindberg, Ibsen and Bergman, in Grief[s] which was directed by Anne Kessler. She also assumed the role of Elmire in Molière’s Tartuffe directed by Marcel Bozonnet. In 2008, she interpreted the Countess in Ödön von Horváth’s Figaro Gets a Divorce by Jacques Lassalle, and followed with the role of The Old Woman in Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs by Jean Dautremay. In 2010, she played in Euripides’ Herakles as staged by Christophe Perton, Molière’s Les Femmes savantes by Bruno Bayen, and Nikolai Gogol’s The Wedding by Lilo Baur. In 2011, she played Uranie in Molière’s La Critique de l’École des femmes, staged by Clément Hervieu-Léger. In 2014, she played Gertrude in Shakespeare’s Hamlet by Dan Jemmett and the Baroness in Feydeau’s Un fil à la patte by Jérôme Deschamps. In 2015, she was Maria Lvovna in Maxim Gorky’s The Summer Folk under the direction of Gérard Desarthe, followed by Felice in Goldoni’s The Boors by Jean-Louis Benoit. Stéphane Braunschweig directed her in Britannicus by Jean Racine and Gilles David in Michel Vinaver’s La Demande d’emploi.
In 2017, Éric Ruf entrusted her with the role of Roxane in Racine’s Bajazet. She took part in the reading of Racine’s Bérénice on France Culture Radio. In 2018, she was the Red-haired Secretary in Sergi Belbel’s Après la pluie by Lilo Baur, the Mother in Jean-Luc Lagarce’s J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne by Chloé Dabert and Madame Gabor in Frank Wedekind’s The Awakening of Spring by Clément Hervieu-Léger.

Outside of the Comédie-Française, Clotilde de Bayser was directed by Jean-Pierre Vincent in Alfred de Musset’s On ne badine pas avec l’amour, by Andreï Konchalovsky in Chekhov’s The Seagull, by Patrice Kerbrat in Jacques-Pierre Amette’s Passions secrètes, and by Claude Stratz in Alfred de Musset’s Fantasio.
She has filmed with Olivier Assayas in Winter’s Child (L’Enfant de l’hiver), Francis Girod in L’Enfance de l’art, Claude Miller in The Little Thief (La Petite Voleuse), Claude Lelouch in Men, Women: A User’s Manual (Hommes, femmes : mode d’emploi) as well as in Niels Arestrup’s first movie Le Candidat, released in 2008. She played in the France 2 television series La Crim’, as well as in the series Les Vivants et les Morts directed by Gérard Mordillat.

Clotilde de Bayser is Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres) and Knight of the National Order of Merit (Chevalier dans l’ordre national du Mérite).

During the 2018/2019 season, Clotilde de Bayser performs in Goldoni’s La Locandiera by Alain Françon and in the rerun of Racine’s Britannicus by Stéphane Braunschweig.
Her public reading session, Grenier des acteurs, is dedicated to Poètes de la Méditerranée.