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Dominique Blanc
Comédienne et Sociétaire de la Comédie Française
Biography
Dominique Blanc joined the first class of the Classe Libre at the Cours Florent drama school, where she trained notably under Pierre Romans. In 1981, Patrice Chéreau cast her as Solveig in Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, premiered at the Théâtre National Populaire. This marked the beginning of a long artistic collaboration: The Screens by Genet, Phèdre by Racine, then The War: A Memoir by Marguerite Duras, co-directed with Thierry Thieû Niang — a performance that earned her the Molière Award for Best Actress in 2010. On screen, Patrice Chéreau also directed her in Queen Margot and Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, for which she received the César Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999.
Dominique Blanc’s career has been shaped by other decisive encounters: Luc Bondy, Jean-Pierre Vincent, Antoine Vitez, Marc Paquien, Bruno Bayen... Her portrayal of Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House, directed by Deborah Warner, and of Madame de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons under Christine Letailleur, both earned her the Molière Award for Best Actress (2008 and 2016).
In cinema, she has worked with Claude Chabrol, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, James Ivory, and Lucas Belvaux. She won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Régis Wargnier’s Indochine and Louis Malle’s May Fools (Milou en mai), and in 2001, the César for Best Actress for Roch Stéphanik’s Stand-by. Her performance in The Other (L’Autre) by Pierre Trividic and Patrick Mario Bernard earned her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 2008.
After an already rich career on both stage and screen, Dominique Blanc joined the Comédie-Française in 2016 and became its 538th sociétaire in 2021. There, she has performed major roles: Agrippina in Britannicus (Stéphane Braunschweig), Mary in The Testament of Mary (Deborah Warner), Helena Ekdahl in Fanny and Alexander (Julie Deliquet) — whom she had already worked with on Vanya, adapted from Chekhov — the Marquise in The Reformed Rake (Clément Hervieu-Léger), the Marquise de Villeparisis in The Guermantes Way (Christophe Honoré), Dorine in Tartuffe or the Hypocrite (Ivo van Hove), and Varvara Petrovna Stavroguina in The Demons (Guy Cassiers)...
She moves effortlessly between the great classical playwrights — Racine, Molière, Marivaux, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Proust — and contemporary voices such as Lars Norén. In 2020, her performance in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, directed by Arnaud Desplechin, in which she played five different roles, earned her the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2024, she portrayed the formidable American film critic Pauline Kael in Contre, a production by and featuring Constance Meyer and Sébastien Pouderoux, inspired by the life and work of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands.
