He joined the Comédie-Française in 1960 and has been named a sociétaire honoraire since 2004.

He took part in more than a hundred plays and staged over ten others. Among the directors he worked with, we can name Lluis Pasqual, Jean-Luc Boutté, Jacques Lassalle, Otomar Krejca, Philippe Adrien, Christian Rist, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Daniel Mesguich, Jorge Lavelli, and Lukas Hemleb, etc.

He has enacted Le Bret’s role in Cyrano de Bergerac staged by Denis Podalydès and played in Lukas Hemleb’s staging of La Marquise d’O (The Marquise of O) at Théâtre Gérard Philipe de Saint-Denis. He has performed as well in Autumn Dream staged by David Géry.