Administrateur général of the Comédie-Française, Clément Hervieu-Léger is an actor, director and teacher. Trained at the Conservatoire of the 10th arrondissement of Paris in Jean-Louis Bihoreau's class, he first performed at the Comédie-Française in 2000 in Molière's L'Avare, directed by Andrei Serban. He joined the Troupe in 2005 and became its 533rd sociétaire in 2018.

This season, he directs L'École de danse by Carlo Goldoni — his sixth production with the Troupe, following Le Misanthrope and La Critique de l'École des femmes by Molière, La Cerisaie by Chekhov, L'Éveil du printemps by Wedekind and Le Petit-Maître corrigé by Marivaux.

With the Compagnie des Petits Champs, which he co-founded with Daniel San Pedro in 2010, he has directed numerous productions, including in autumn 2025 Nous, les héros by Jean-Luc Lagarce at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, where he had previously presented Une des dernières soirées de carnaval by Goldoni (Grand Prix du théâtre du Syndicat de la critique 2020) and L'Épreuve by Marivaux. He has recently directed On achève bien les chevaux, after Horace McCoy, with the Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin; Turgenev's Un mois à la campagne at the Théâtre des Célestins; and Molière's Monsieur de Pourceaugnac and Jean-Luc Lagarce's Le Pays lointain at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg. In opera, he has directed Cavalli's La Didone, Mozart's Mitridate, Philippe Hersant's Les Éclairs, and served as dramaturg for La Source for choreographer Jean-Guillaume Bart. He maintained a ten-year creative partnership with Patrice Chéreau, assisting him notably in the direction of Così Fan Tutte. As dramaturg for Tristan und Isolde, he appeared in Chéreau's film Gabrielle and in his production of Jon Fosse's Rêve d'automne at the Musée du Louvre. Together they co-authored J'y arriverai, un jour (Actes Sud) and Les Visages et les Corps (Flammarion). As an actor, his recent roles include the lead in Le Suicidé after Nikolai Erdman, directed by Stéphane Varupenne; Dorante in Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, directed by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq; Robespierre in Georg Büchner's La Mort de Danton for Simon Delétang; Günther von Essenbeck in Les Damnés, directed by Ivo Van Hove; and Prior Walter in Tony Kushner's Angels in America, for Arnaud Desplechin. He has also worked with Lilo Baur (Feydeau's La Puce à l'oreille, Marcel Aymé's La Tête des autres, Le Mariage by Gogol), Denis Podalydès (Lucrèce Borgia by Hugo, Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand, Fantasio by Musset), Jean-Pierre Vincent (Ubu roi by Jarry, Dom Juan by Molière), Marcel Bozonnet in Tartuffe by Molière, and Anne Delbée in Tête d'Or by Claudel. His film work includes Sarah Bernhardt. La Divine by Guillaume Nicloux, La Passion de Dodin Bouffant by Trần Anh Hùng, Frère et Sœur by Arnaud Desplechin, and Dom Juan et Sganarelle by Vincent Macaigne ("Le Cinéma de la Comédie-Française", Madelen/INA). Clément Hervieu-Léger teaches theatre at the École de Danse of the Opéra national de Paris. Since 2021, he has served as President of the Société d'Histoire du Théâtre.