Audrey Vernon

Audrey Vernon was born on October 31, 1980 in Marseille and is a French actress.

Biography Audrey Vernon studied drama at the conservatory in Toulon, the conservatory in Paris's 10th arrondissement, and the Cours Florent. She made her theater debut as Ophelia in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and as Polly in The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht. On August 17, her commentary about suicides among railway workers was censored in the France Inter replay at the request of the SNCF.

Giorgia Sinicorni is reviving the show How to Marry a Billionaire in Italy, which will premiere in Milan at the Franco Parenti Theater. On January 18, 2018, Audrey Vernon celebrated the 500th and final performance of the show at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris.

On January 15, 2018, Audrey Vernon, in partnership with journalist Hervé Kempf and the editorial staff of Reporterre, created the show Écologie, maintenant il faut se battre (Ecology: Now We Must Fight) at the Maison des Métallos. The show featured readings of radical ecological texts. Marianne Denicourt and Audrey Vernon led the reading, accompanied by Yacine Belhousse, Thomas VDB, Yves Noël Genod, Giorgia Sinicorni, and David Azencot. The texts from this show are available upon request on the Reporterre website and the show is open to revivals. It has since been revived in Montreal by Michelle Parent and in Lyon by a collective.

In the winter of 2020, she presented her latest show, Billion Dollar Baby (originally titled Cannon Fodder), at La Nouvelle Seine. The show was directed and designed by Dorian Rossel and Delphine Lanza from the Swiss company SuperTropTop. In the show, a pregnant woman talks to her unborn child, describing the world in which he will have to learn to live.

Performances were suspended in France in March 2020 due to the pandemic. The show will go on tour starting in the fall, with performances resuming in Paris in January 2021.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the actress's latest show was put on hold. In April 2020, she launched BigBooks, a podcast dedicated to sharing with her audience the readings that inspire her by reading excerpts from essays and articles on capitalism and neoliberalism. Over the course of several episodes, the BigBooks podcast explores the economy's hold on the planet and humanity. The first episode is devoted to the essay Baise ton prochain: Une histoire souterraine du capitalisme (Fuck Your Neighbor: An Underground History of Capitalism) by Dany-Robert Dufour, published by Actes Sud. Other featured guests include Noam Chomsky, Fatima Ouassak, David Graeber, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

In March 2022, she joined the Parlement de l'Union Populaire (People's Union Parliament), which supports Jean-Luc Mélenchon's candidacy in the 2022 French presidential election. She was present at his march for the Sixth Republic.

In 2023, she was one of the twenty co-presidents of the association that provides financial support to Soulèvements de la Terre.

Theater and shows

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Ophelia) The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht (Polly) Betrayal by Harold Pinter, directed by Léonie Simaga 2005: The Funniest Show in the World 2009: How to Marry a Billionaire 2012: Marx and Jenny 2014: Heartbreak, an adaptation of Phèdre by Racine for an actress in love and her prompter 2015: Fukushima, a work in progress based on a Japanese legend, at the Avant Seine theater in Colombes with Xavier Mathieu 2019: Billion Dollar Baby, letter to My Unborn Baby, directed by Dorian Rossel and Delphine Lanza 2025 : Comment traverser les sombres temps ? Gurshad Shaheman au Festival d'Avignon 2025: How to Marry a Billionaire 2 — Crystal Wedding

Filmography

Television

2001: Fatou la Malienne, TV film by Daniel Vigne 2005-2013: daily one-minute, Canal+ Décalé 2007: Moot-Moot, TV film by Éric Judor and Ramzy Bedya 2010: Le Pas Petit Poucet, TV film by Omar Sy and Fred Testot 2021: La Meilleure Version de moi-même by Blanche Gardin

Radio

Audrey Vernon's post on France Inter La Dernière (The Last ) on Radio Nova

Publications

How to Marry a Billionaire, published by Fayard, April 2015 Translations: (it) Come sposare un miliardario, published by Rizzoli (nl) Hoe sla je een miljardair aan de haak, published by Atlas contact Billion Dollar Baby, Open Letter to My Unborn Child, LIBRE Publishing, November 2020