Hervé Pierre

Hervé Pierre (born 22 April 1955) is a French actor and theatre director. He joined the Comédie-Française in 2007 and became a member in 2011.

On 14 June 2009, Pierre was awarded the title of Best French Actor by critics. In 2011, he was promoted chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2011, Knight of the French Legion of Honour.

In 1977, he formed the Théâtre du Troc with his TNS promotion company, leading it until 1981.

Personal life Pierre is married to French actress Clotilde Mollet.

Selected list of performances

+ TheatreYearTitleAuthorDirector 1973 La Cruche cassée Heinrich von Kleist Pierre Louis 1974 L'Île des esclaves Marivaux Pierre Louis 1980 Love's Labour's Lost (Festival d'Avignon) William Shakespeare Jean-Pierre Vincent 1981 Edward II Christopher Marlowe Bernard Sobel 1983 Danton's Death Georg Büchner Jean-Louis Hourdin 1984 Les Mémoires d'un visage pâle Thomas Berger Jean-Paul Wenzel 1984 A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Jean-Louis Hourdin 1985 The Tempest William Shakespeare 1986 Three Sisters Anton Chekhov Alain Buttard 1988 La Résistible Ascension d'Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht Guy Rétoré 1991–1992 Timon of Athens William Shakespeare Dominique Pitoiset 1993 Faust Goethe Dominique Pitoiset 1994 Quai Ouest Bernard-Marie Koltès Michel Froehly 1994 Oblomov Ivan Goncharov Dominique Pitoiset 1996 Lulu Frank Wedekind Jean-Luc Lagarce 1998 Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky Roger Planchon 1998 La Dame de chez Maxim Georges Feydeau Roger Planchon 2001 Othello William Shakespeare Dominique Pitoiset 2001 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Dan Jemmett 2007–2008 Juste la fin du monde Jean-Luc Lagarce François Berreur 2007 The Misanthrope Molière Lukas Hemleb 2008 L'Illusion Comique Pierre Corneille Galin Stoev 2010 Mistero Buffo Dario Fo Muriel Mayette 2010 The Birds Aristophanes Alfredo Arias 2010 Un fil à la patte Georges Feydeau Jérôme Deschamps 2011 Agamemnon Seneca the Younger Denis Marleau 2012 Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen Éric Ruf 2013 Hamlet William Shakespeare Dan Jemmett 2015 Summerfolk Maxim Gorky Gérard Desarthe 2015 George Dandin ou le Mari confondu (director) Molière Hervé Pierre 2016 Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand Denis Podalydès 2016 The Sea Edward Bond Alain Françon 2016 Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov Julie Deliquet 2016 Reigen (la Ronde) Arthur Schnitzler Anne Kessler 2017–2018 The Tempest William Shakespeare Robert Carsen 2018 Britannicus Jean Racine Stéphane Braunschweig 2018 Britannicus Jean Racine Stéphane Braunschweig 2018–2019 La locandiera Carlo Goldoni Alain Françon 2019 Fanny and Alexander Ingmar Bergman Julie Deliquet 2019 Life of Galileo Bertolt Brecht Éric Ruf 2020 Bajazet Jean Racine Éric Ruf