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Elsa Lepoivre
Actress
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Biography
A member of the Comédie-Française since 2003, she was appointed its 516th sociétaire in 2007. Her theatrical career has been marked by strong female figures such as Lucrezia Borgia in Victor Hugo’s play of the same name, Sophie Von Essenbeck in Les Damnés (winning the Molière Award for Best Actress in 2017), Emilie Ekdahl in the adaptation of Fanny and Alexander, the Duchess Oriane de Guermantes after Marcel Proust, Elmire in Tartuffe, Clytemnestra and Helen in Electra / Orestes after Euripides, and Nadia in Hécube, pas Hécube by Tiago Rodrigues, premiered in 2024 at the Carrière de Boulbon during the Festival d’Avignon.
For Thomas Ostermeier, she played Jenny the prostitute, a sung role, in The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, premiered at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. She also took part in Cabaret Boris Vian, conceived by Serge Bagdassarian, who also invited her to perform in Mais quelle Comédie!, a musical revue written and co-directed with Marina Hands.
