Guillaume Gallienne nach dem Roman »Kallirhoe« von Chariton von Aphrodisias

After completing his training at the Cours Florent and the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, Guillaume Gallienne joined the Comédie-Française in 1998 as a “pensionnaire”. In 2005, he acquired the status of “sociétaire” (full member) and appeared in numerous productions, including works by Molière, Chekhov, Goldoni, Goncharov, de Musset, Hugo, Visconti and Brecht. That same year, he received the Molière Award for “Best Supporting Actor” for his performance in Georges Feydeau’s Un Fil à la Patte.

From 2006 onward, he worked between the Tessenkai Theatre in Tokyo, the Opéra de Paris and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where he was responsible for the dramaturgy of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos, Nicolas Le Riche’s ballet Caligula, and Alexei Ratmansky’s Illusions perdues—and later, in 2020, of Ratmansky’s Of Love and Rage for the American Ballet Theatre.

In 2010, he created Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!, an autobiographical solo performance that earned him the Molière Award for “Theatrical Revelation”. The later film adaptation won five César Awards in 2014, including “Best Film” and “Best Actor.” Guillaume Gallienne was appointed to the Ordre national du Mérite in 2010 and named an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2013.

In 2017, he directed his second feature film Maryline and Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola at the Opéra national de Paris. In 2021, he appeared in three major films: Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, Alexandre Astier’s Kaamelott, and Christian Vincent’s Le Bonheur des uns. He is currently working on a television adaptation of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and has been announced as the director of a new feature film exploring themes of memory and identity.