Sociétaire honoraire
Catherine Hiegel was appointed as a pensionnaire at the Comédie-Française on February 1, 1969 and became its 458th sociétaire on January 1, 1976.
After training with Raymond Girard and Jacques Charon, she enrolled at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts) of Paris in 1968, and sharpened her acting skills in the classes of Jean Marchat and Lise Delamare.
During the 2007/2008 season, she participated in Une confrérie de farceurs, directed by Jean-Louis Hourdin and François Chattot, and performed the role of Magdelon in The Precious Ridiculous (Les Précieuses ridicules) staged by Dan Jemmet. In 2007, she played Toinette in Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid directed by Claude Stratz, Dona Pasqua in Goldoni’s Il campiello (The Little Square) under the direction of Jacques Lassalle, and Marthe in Koltès’s Le Retour au désert (Return to the Desert) staged by Muriel Mayette-Holtz.
Throughout her career at the Comédie-Française, she performed key roles from both the classical and contemporary repertoire, going on a full exploration of the whole gamut of the condition of women, notably by playing Molière’s heroines, such as Angélique in George Dandin or Confused Husband and Martine in Le Médecin malgré lui (The Doctor in spite of Himself), and Goldoni’s heroines, such as Brigida in The Villeggiatura Trilogy, Mirandoline in La Locandiera (The Mistress of the Inn), and Coraline in La Serva amorosa (The Loving Maid). Moreover, she played the roles of Varvara in Gorky’s Summerfolk, Leonore d’Este in Goethe’s Torquato Tasso, Laura in Strindberg’s Father, Solange in Genet’s The Maids (Les Bonnes), as well as Mother Courage in Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children.
During the first decade of 2000, she has notably played the roles of Tita Bordereau in Henry James’s The Aspern Papers, of The Woman in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul, of la jeune femme (The young woman) in Marguerite Duras’s Savannah Bay, of Carlotta in Lars Norén’s And Give Us the shadows (Embrasser les ombres), of Dorine in Molière’s Tartuffe, and of the woman with a tress in Philippe Minyana’s La Maison des morts.
Inside and outside the Comédie-Française, she has worked under the direction of Jacques Lassalle, Jorge Lavelli, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Giorgio Strehler, Bruno Bayen, Dario Fo, Patrice Kerbrat, Philippe Adrien, Joël Jouanneau, Patrice Chéreau, Éric Vigner, Marcel Bozonnet, Robert Cantarella and Marcella Salivarova, etc.
In the realm of the Comédie-Française, she staged Molière’s L'Avare(The Miser) with Serge Bagdassarian, Les Femmes savantes and George Dandin, or Confused Husband, Ewa Poka’s La Demoiselle de la poste, and Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming.
Outside the Comédie-Française, she performed in Jean Luc Lagarce’s J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne (I Was in the House, Waiting for the Rain) directed by Joël Jouanneau. She starred in numerous other plays such as Koltès’s Quay West (Quai Ouest) under the direction of Patrice Chéreau, Copi’s An Untimely Visit (Une visite inopportune), Lars Norén’s The Last Supper (La Veillée), Berkoff’s Greek, Serge Kribus’s Arloc or Werner Scwab’s First Ladies (Les Présidentes).
In the movies, she has performed in Thomas Gilou’s Michou d’Auber, in Gérad Krawczyk’s It’s Our Life (La Vie est à nous), and in Bertrand Blier’s Les Côtelettes. Among the directors she has collaborated with, we can name Etienne Chatilliez, Josiane Balasko, Dominique Cabrera and Jean-Jacques Zilbermann. On TV, she has appeared in Jean-Louis Benoît’s movie Le Bal and in Cravenne’s L’Homme qui a perdu son ombre.
She got several nominations for the Molière Awards, notably in 2007 as Best Supporting Actress for the role of Marthe in Return to the desert (Le Retour au désert). In 2005, she was awarded with the Critic’s Choice Prize as Best actress for her role in I Was in the House, Waiting for the Rain (J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne).
Catherine Hiegel left the Troupe on December 31 2009.
The Birds by Aristophane directed by Alfredo Arias
Constance
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Mystère bouffe et fabulages (version 2)
Mistero Buffo by Dario Fo Directed by Muriel Mayette-Holtz
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Mystère bouffe et fabulages (version 1)
Mistero Buffo by Dario Fo Directed by Muriel Mayette-Holtz
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Les Joyeuses Commères de Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare Directed by Andrés Lima
Madame Pétule
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The Affected Young Ladies by Molière Directed by Dan Jemmett
Madelon
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Les Métamorphoses, la petite dans la...
by Philippe Minyana Directed by Marcial Di Fonzo Bo
La petite, puis la reine, sa soeur
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by Emmanuel Darley Directed by Andrés Lima
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The Affected Young Ladies by Molière Directed by Dan Jemmett
Madelon
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by Bernard Faivre Directed by François Chattot and Jean-Louis Hourdin
La Commère, La Mère
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Return to the desert by Bernard-Marie Koltès Directed by Muriel Mayette-Holtz
Marthe, soeur de Marie, seconde femme d'Adrien
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The Imaginary Invalid by Molière Directed by Claude Stratz
Toinette (alternating)
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by Carlo Goldoni Directed by Jacques Lassalle
Donna Pasqua la Finaude, vieille femme
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by Philippe Minyana Directed by Robert Cantarella
la Femme à la natte
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by Molière Directed by Marcel Bozonnet
Dorine (en alternance)
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by Molière Directed by Marcel Bozonnet
Dorine
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by Lars Norén Directed by Joël Jouanneau
Carlotta
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by Jean Pavans Directed by Jacques Lassalle
Tita Bordereau
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by Jean de La Fontaine Directed by Robert Wilson
La Fontaine (en alternance)
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by Tony Kushner Directed by Jorge Lavelli
The Woman
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by Jean Pavans Directed by Jacques Lassalle
Tita Bordereau
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by Marguerite Duras Directed by Éric Vigner
The Young Lady
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The Imaginary Invalid by Molière Directed by Claude Stratz
Toinette
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The Maids by Jean Genet Directed by Philippe Adrien
Solange
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by Yves Ravey Directed by Joël Jouanneau
Klima
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by Yves Lebeau Directed by Jacques Rosner
la Fille
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Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Jorge Lavelli
Mère Courage
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by Daniel Besnehard Directed by Georges Werler
Florence
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The Maids by Jean Genet Directed by Philippe Adrien
Solange
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by Normand Chaurette Directed by Joël Jouanneau
la Reine Marguerite, ex-reine d'Angleterre
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The Maids by Jean Genet Directed by Philippe Adrien
Solange
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The Maids by Jean Genet Directed by Philippe Adrien
Solange
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by Marguerite Duras Directed by Christian Rist
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Maman revient, pauvre orphelin
by Jean-Claude Grumberg Directed by Philippe Adrien
Sœur Anne-Marie des Anges du Calvaire ; une Infirmière militaire ; Marjorie ; Marylou ;...
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by Carlo Goldoni Directed by Jacques Lassalle
Coraline
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by Honoré de Balzac Directed by Jean-Paul Roussillon
Virginie
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by Honoré de Balzac Directed by Jean-Paul Roussillon
Virginie (alternating)
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by Carlo Goldoni Directed by Jacques Lassalle
Coraline
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The Father by August Strindberg Directed by Patrice Kerbrat
Laura
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by Molière Directed by Dario Fo
Martine
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The Father by August Strindberg Directed by Patrice Kerbrat
Laura
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by Molière Directed by Dario Fo
Martine
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by Molière Directed by Dario Fo
Martine
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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Directed by Bruno Bayen
Léonore Sanvitale, comtesse de Scandino
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by Jules Michelet Directed by Simone Benmussa
l'Histoire
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by Jules Michelet Directed by Simone Benmussa
l'Histoire
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by Bernard-Marie Koltès Directed by Patrice Chereau
Odéon
by Carlo Goldoni Directed by Jean-Luc Boutté
Annina
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by Georges Courteline Directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser
Antoinette, Caroline, Employée du journal, Madame Boulingrin
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by Carlo Goldoni Directed by Jean-Luc Boutté
Annina
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by Henry Becque Directed by Jean-Pierre Vincent
Judith
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by Georges Courteline Directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser
Antoinette, Marthe, Caroline, Elle, Vierge
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by Yves Laplace Directed by Hervé Loichemol
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Odéon
by Jean Giraudoux Directed by Jacques Sereys
Isabelle
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The Summer Folk by Maxime Gorki Directed by Jacques Lassalle
Varvara
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by Marivaux Directed by Jean-Pierre Miquel
A Woman
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The Summer Folk by Maxime Gorki Directed by Jacques Lassalle
Varvara
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by Marivaux Directed by Jean-Pierre Miquel
A Woman
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by Jean Giraudoux Directed by Jacques Sereys
Isabelle
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by Henry Becque Directed by Jean-Pierre Vincent
Judith
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by Henry Becque Directed by Jean-Pierre Vincent
Judith
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The Girl from Maxim’s by Georges Feydeau Directed by Jean-Paul Roussillon
Madame Claux
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by Jean Giraudoux Directed by Michel Fagadau
Irma
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The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni Directed by Jacques Lassalle
Mirandoline
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by Eugène Ionesco Directed by Jorge Lavelli
Juliette
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by Jean Giraudoux Directed by Michel Fagadau
Irma
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by August Strindberg Directed by Jacques Baillon
Tekla
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by Fernando Arrabal Directed by Jorge Lavelli
Mareda Ruiz - Servante de Latidia, "Thérèse d'Avila"
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La Trilogie de la Villégiature
The Holiday Trilogy by Carlo Goldoni Directed by Giorgio Strehler
Brigida
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by Anton Tchekhov Directed by Jean-Paul Roussillon
Natacha
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La Trilogie de la Villégiature
The Holiday Trilogy by Carlo Goldoni Directed by Giorgio Strehler
Brigida
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by Henry Becque Directed by Simon Eine
Antonia
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by Eugène Ionesco Directed by Jorge Lavelli
Juliette
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The Constant Players by Marivaux Directed by Jean-Luc Boutté
Lisette
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The Imaginary Invalid by Molière Directed by Jean-Laurent Cochet
Angélique
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The Versailles Impromptu by Molière Directed by Pierre Dux
Mlle Molière
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Scapin The Schemer by Molière Directed by Jacques Echantillon
Hyacinte
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The Imaginary Invalid by Molière Directed by Jean-Laurent Cochet
Angélique
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by Eugène Ionesco Directed by Jorge Lavelli
Juliette
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