Jean
Chevalier
pensionnaire
As a child, Jean Chevalier dreamt of becoming a footballer. He joined the training center of the Troyes city club, the ESTAC. At the age of 15, he saw a cousin play in a village theater company and decided to abandon his nascent athletic career to become an actor.
At the Troyes Conservatoire, Pascal Broché introduced him to the poems of Boris Vian, namely Qu’est-ce que vous attendez pour m’aimer. Alain Thierry noticed him and his cousin and suggested they interpret the Jean-Michel Ribes’ texts in his show Le Grand Cabaret, which was touring the Champagne-Ardenne region.
At the age of 19, Jean Chevalier was admitted into the Cours Florent in Paris. Bruno Blairet and Nâzim Boudjenah trained him. Boudjenah wrote the role of the Red Fish especially for him, as part of his staging of Maeterlinck’s Blue Bird (L’Oiseau bleu). Alongside Jean-Pierre Garnier, Jean Chevalier embarked on playing emblematic roles of the repertoire, such as Cyrano de Bergerac in Edmond Rostand’s eponymous play, Karl in Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers and Leonce in Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner.
He has joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique in Paris where he attended classes taught by Yann-Joël Collin, Nada Strancar and Didier Sandre. Caroline Marcadé introduced him to dance, Alain Zappfel to singing and Yvo Mentens to the art of clowning. During his third year, after a workshop at the Conservatoire, director Clément Hervieu-Léger offered him a role in Impromptu 1663 based on texts by Molière, which was shown at the Festival d’Avignon in 2017.
Jean Chevalier appeared in Philippe Garrel’s film Lover for a Day (L’Amant d’un jour), which was selected for the Cannes Festival Directors’ Fortnight in May 2017. In September 2017, he played Hippolyte in Seneca’s Phaedra, which was staged by Les Bourlingueurs, a multidisciplinary group originating at the Festival des Effusions in Normandy. With the guitar player Lionel Privat, he presented the Bourvil, du rire aux larmes song recital at the Hall de la Chanson in the Parc de la Villette. In December 2017, he played at the Théâtre Déjazet in Surtout ne vous inquiétez pas, a show staged by Yvo Mentens for the 2017 graduating the students of the Conservatoire.
Jean Chevalier became pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française on the 1st of February 2018. He reunited with Clément Hervieu-Léger who cast him as Otto in The Awakening of Spring by Frank Wedekind.
During the 2018/2019 season, Jean Chevalier plays in Bergman’s Fanny and Alexandre by Julie Deliquet and in Brecht’s Life of Galileo by Éric Ruf. He can also be seen in the rerun of Victor Hugo’s Lucrezia Borgia and Molière’s Les Fourberies de Scapin, both directed by Denis Podalydès.
Soon in
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
comedy-ballet by Molière
directed by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq
Richelieu
TicketsLa Souricière
by Agatha Christie
directed by Lilo Baur
translated by Serge Bagdassarian and Lilo Baur
Vx-Colombier
Sold outAt the Comédie-Française
2024-2025
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by Agatha Christie directed by Lilo Baur translated by Serge Bagdassarian and Lilo Baur
Inspecteur Trotter
Vx-Colombier
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comedy-ballet by Molière directed by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq
Maître d'armes et manipulation de marionnettes (alternating)
Richelieu
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by Pierre Corneille directed by Suliane Brahim made by Clément Gaubert
Dorante, fils de Géronte
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after Hector Malot directed by Léna Bréban
Joli-Cœur et Mattia
Vx-Colombier
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by Molière directed by Lilo Baur
Cléante, fils d'Harpagon, amant de Mariane
Richelieu
2023-2024
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by Molière Directed by Denis Podalydès
Léandre, fils de Géronte et amant de Zerbinette (alternating)
Richelieu
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Le Chien - Les Contes du chat perché
by Marcel Aymé Directed by Raphaëlle Saudinos and Véronique Vella
le Chat
Studio
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Comedy-ballet by Molière Directed by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq
Maître d'armes et manipulation de marionnettes (alternating)
Richelieu
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by Georges Feydeau Directed by Lilo Baur
Camille Chandebise
Richelieu
2022-2023
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by Molière Directed by Lilo Baur
Cléante, fils d'Harpagon, amant de Mariane
Richelieu
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Le Chien - Les Contes du chat perché
by Marcel Aymé directed by Raphaëlle Saudinos et Véronique Vella
le Chat
Studio
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by Georg Büchner Directed by Simon Delétang
Collot d’Herbois, membre du Comité de salut public et Hérault-Séchelles, député
Richelieu
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by Georges Feydeau Directed by Lilo Baur
Camille Chandebise
Richelieu
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by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Éric Ruf
Andrea Sarti et Moine
Richelieu
2021-2022
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Comedy-ballet by Molière Directed by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq
Maître d'armes et manipulation de marionnettes
Richelieu
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by Molière Directed by Denis Podalydès
Léandre (Alternating)
Richelieu
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by Molière Directed by Lilo Baur
Cléante, fils d'Harpagon, amant de Mariane
Richelieu
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by Hector Malot directed by Léna Bréban
Joli-Coeur et Mattia
Vx-Colombier
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d'Ingmar Bergman Mise en scène Julie Deliquet
Alexandre, fils d’Oscar et Emilie
Richelieu
2020-2021
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Comédie-ballet de Molière Mise en scène Valérie Lesort et Christian Hecq
Maître d'armes et manipulation de marionnettes
Richelieu
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de Georges Feydeau Mise en scène Lilo Baur
Camille Chandebise
Richelieu
2019-2020
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Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Éric Ruf
Andrea Sarti et Moine
Richelieu
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A Flea in her ear by Georges Feydeau Directed by Lilo Baur
Camille Chandebise
Richelieu
2018-2019
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Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Éric Ruf
Andrea Sarti et Moine
Richelieu
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Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman Directed by Julie Deliquet
Alexandre, fils d’Oscar et Emilie
Richelieu
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Scapin The Schemer by Molière Directed by Denis Podalydès
Léandre (Alternating)
Richelieu
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Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo Directed by Denis Podalydès
Don Apostolo (Alternating)
Richelieu
2017-2018
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The Awakening of Spring by Frank Wedekind Directed by Clément Hervieu-Léger
Otto et Ruprecht
Richelieu
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Les Journées particulières (Special...
Into the Repertoire time machine
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Gallery
La Puce à l'oreille 23-24
Alexandre Pavloff, Jean Chevalier
Les Fourberies de Scapin 23-24
Birane Ba, Benjamin Lavernhe, Jean Chevalier
