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.

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La Mort de Danton

by Georg Büchner
Directed by Simon Delétang

Richelieu

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Directed by Lilo Baur

Richelieu

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2023-2024

2022-2023

  • L'Avare

    by Molière Directed by Lilo Baur

    Cléante, fils d'Harpagon, amant de Mariane

    Richelieu

  • Le Chien - Les Contes du chat perché

    by Marcel Aymé directed by Raphaëlle Saudinos et Véronique Vella

    le Chat

    Studio

  • La Mort de Danton

    by Georg Büchner Directed by Simon Delétang

    Collot d’Herbois, membre du Comité de salut public et Hérault-Séchelles, député

    Richelieu

  • La Puce à l'oreille

    by Georges Feydeau Directed by Lilo Baur

    Camille Chandebise

    Richelieu

  • La Vie de Galilée

    by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Éric Ruf

    Andrea Sarti et Moine

    Richelieu

2021-2022

  • Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

    Comedy-ballet by Molière Directed by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq

    Maître d'armes et manipulation de marionnettes

    Richelieu

  • Les Fourberies de Scapin

    by Molière Directed by Denis Podalydès

    Léandre (Alternating)

    Richelieu

  • L'Avare

    by Molière Directed by Lilo Baur

    Cléante, fils d'Harpagon, amant de Mariane

    Richelieu

  • Sans famille

    by Hector Malot directed by Léna Bréban

    Joli-Coeur et Mattia

    Vx-Colombier

  • Fanny et Alexandre

    d'Ingmar Bergman Mise en scène Julie Deliquet

    Alexandre, fils d’Oscar et Emilie

    Richelieu

2020-2021

  • Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

    Comédie-ballet de Molière Mise en scène Valérie Lesort et Christian Hecq

    Maître d'armes et manipulation de marionnettes

    Richelieu

  • La Puce à l'oreille

    de Georges Feydeau Mise en scène Lilo Baur

    Camille Chandebise

    Richelieu

2019-2020

  • La Vie de Galilée

    Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Éric Ruf

    Andrea Sarti et Moine

    Richelieu

  • La Puce à l'oreille

    A Flea in her ear by Georges Feydeau Directed by Lilo Baur

    Camille Chandebise

    Richelieu

2018-2019

  • La Vie de Galilée

    Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Éric Ruf

    Andrea Sarti et Moine

    Richelieu

  • Fanny et Alexandre

    Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman Directed by Julie Deliquet

    Alexandre, fils d’Oscar et Emilie

    Richelieu

  • Les Fourberies de Scapin

    Scapin The Schemer by Molière Directed by Denis Podalydès

    Léandre (Alternating)

    Richelieu

  • Lucrèce Borgia

    Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo Directed by Denis Podalydès

    Don Apostolo (Alternating)

    Richelieu

2017-2018

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