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)
18th century
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19th century
- Mademoiselle George (1804)
- Mademoiselle Anaïs (1832)
- Rachel (1842)
- Coquelin aîné (1864)
- Jeanne Samary (1874)
- Mounet-Sully (1874)
- Sarah Bernhardt (1875)
- Jules Truffier (1888)
- Marguerite Moreno (1890)
- Jeanne Ludwig (1893)
- Marthe Brandès (1896)
- Raphaël Duflos (1896)
20th century
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21st century
506 : Alexandre Pavloff (2002)
507 : Françoise Gillard (2002)
508 : Céline Samie (2004)
509 : Clotilde de Bayser (2004)
510 : Jérôme Pouly (2004)
511 : Laurent Stocker (2004)
512 : Pierre Vial (2005)
513 : Guillaume Gallienne (2005)
514 : Laurent Natrella (2007)
515 : Michel Vuillermoz (2007)
516 : Elsa Lepoivre (2007)
517 : Christian Gonon (2009)
518 : Julie Sicard (2009)
519 : Loïc Corbery (2010)
520 : Léonie Simaga (2010)
521 : Serge Bagdassarian (2011)
522 : Hervé Pierre (2011)
523 : Bakary Sangaré (2013)
524 : Pierre Louis-Calixte (2013)
525 : Christian Hecq (2013)
526 : Nicolas Lormeau (2014)
527 : Gilles David (2014)
528 : Stéphane Varupenne (2015)
529 : Suliane Brahim (2016)
530 : Adeline d'Hermy (2016)
531 : Georgia Scalliet (2017)
532 : Jérémy Lopez (2017)
533 : Clément Hervieu-Léger (2018)
534 : Benjamin Lavernhe (2019)
535 : Sébastien Pouderoux (2019)
536 : Didier Sandre (2020)
537 : Christophe Montenez (2020)