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Éric Ruf Set designer
© Stéphane Lavoué-coll. Comédie-Française
Biography
Actor, stage director, and set designer, Éric Ruf joined the Comédie-Française as a resident actor in 1993, became a full member in 1998, and was named honorary member upon his appointment as General Administrator in 2014, a position he held until 2025.
He directed and designed the sets for Le Pré aux clercs and Romeo and Juliet at the Opéra Comique, Pelléas et Mélisande and La Bohème at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and for the Comédie-Française: Le Soulier de satin, The Life of Galileo, Bajazet, Romeo and Juliet, and Peer Gynt. He has also created stage designs for productions by Denis Podalydès, Clément Hervieu-Léger, Julie Deliquet, Guillaume Gallienne, among others.
As an actor, he has worked under the direction of Patrice Chéreau, Alain Françon, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Yves Ruf, and Éric Vignier, among others. On screen, he has appeared in films directed by Yves Angelo, Nicole Garcia, Arnaud Desplechin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Yvan Attal, Roman Polanski, and Martin Bouboulon. He has received several Molière Awards and Critics’ Union Grand Prizes. He is a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.
At the Paris Opera: La Source, 2011; La Cenerentola, 2017.
Currently in
- Palais Garnier
- from 03 June to 11 July 2026
