Joined the Comédie-Française on the 1st of October 2013

Following a science-based secondary education, Claire de La Rüe du Can attended drama classes at the Tours Conservatoire régional, while at the same time pursuing a History of Art degree at the Université François Rabelais. In 2011, she played the title role in Tania, a short feature by Giovanni Sportiello, which won the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée Prize, while she won the Award for Best Female Performance at the Nice Festival. The same year, she enrolled at École du Théâtre national de Strasbourg where she worked with Alexandre Gavras, David Lescot, Claudio Tolcachir, Franck Vercruyssen of the Flemish collective tg STAN and Éric Vigner among others.

Pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française since the 1st of October 2013, she made her debut as Aegiale in Molière’s Psyché directed by Véronique Vella. In 2014, Michael Marmarinos entrusted her with the role of Ismène in Racine’s Phèdre. At the same time, she played Angélique in Molière’s Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade imaginaire) directed by Claude Stratz, as well as another Molière’s Angélique, the one in George Dandin, directed by Hervé Pierre.
In 2015, she interpreted Amelia in Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba directed by Lilo Baur, and Viviane in Feydeau’s Un fil à la patte by Jérôme Deschamps. Françoise Gillard and Claire Richard asked her to participate in L’Autre, a show combining dance and theater, which they conceived and staged. Arnaud Desplechin saw Claire de la Rüe du Can as Bertha in Strindberg’s The Father, while in 2016, Clément Hervieu-Léger offered her the role of Hortense in Le Petit-Maître corrigé by Marivaux.

Outside the Comédie-Française, in 2014, Claire de La Rüe du Can played in Aujourd’hui, a short feature film by Anne-Sophie Rouvillois, then in Lola Pater, a film by Nadir Moknèche which was released in cinemas in 2017. She also participated in Vincent Macaigne’s television adaptation of Molière’s Dom Juan & Sganarelle in 2016.

During the 2018/2019 season, Claire de La Rüe du Can will play in Marivaux’s L’Heureux stratagème by Emmanuel Daumas, The Little Mermaid after Andersen, directed by Géraldine Martineau, and in Hors la loi written and directed by Pauline Bureau. She can also bee seen in the reruns of Victor Hugo’s Lucrezia Borgia by Denis Podalydès, Molière’s Les Fourberies de Scapin by Denis Podalydès, and Feydeau’s The Free Exchange Hotel (L’Hôtel du Libre-Échange) by Isabelle Nanty.