Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française
The sociétaires of the Comédie-Française are chosen from among the pensionnaires who have been in the company a year or more.
They are decided upon in the course of a general assembly of the company's administrative committee, made up of 6 existing sociétaires, the senior sociétaire, and the general administrator. A pensionnaire is thus named a societaire by a decree of the Ministry of Culture, from names put forward by the general administrator of the Comédie-Française. On becoming a sociétaire, an actor automatically becomes a member of the Société des Comédiens-Français and receives a share of the profits as well as receiving a number of shares in the société to which he or she is contractually linked.
After his or her retirement, a sociétaire can continue to act, becoming an honorary sociétaire. The senior member of the Comédie-Française is not the oldest sociétaire, but the sociétaire who has been with the company longest.
Some Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française
17th century
- Michel Baron
- Rosimond
- Armande Béjart
- Mademoiselle de Brie
- Champmeslé
- Marie Champmeslé
- Mademoiselle Du Croisy
- Charles Varlet de La Grange
- Mademoiselle La Grange
- Raymond Poisson, known as Belleroche
- Brécourt
- Dancourt
- Jean Quinault
18th century
- Quinault-Dufresne
- Adrienne Lecouvreur
- Jeanne Gaussin
- Marie Dumesnil
- Mademoiselle Clairon
- Marie Brillant
- Lekain
- Mademoiselle Hus
- Préville
- Dalainville
- François Molé
- Jacques Marie Boutet
- Dugazon
- Monvel
- Dazincourt
- Talma
- Madame Desgarcins
- Mademoiselle Fleury
- Grandmesnil
- Mademoiselle Lange
- Mademoiselle Mars
19th century
- Mademoiselle George
- Mademoiselle Anaïs
- Rachel
- Coquelin aîné
- Jeanne Samary
- Mounet-Sully
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Jules Truffier
- Marguerite Moreno
- Jeanne Ludwig
- Marthe Brandès
- Raphaël Duflos
20th century
- Cécile Sorel
- Berthe Cerny
- Gabrielle Colonna-Romano
- Denis d'Inès
- Mary Marquet
- Pierre Fresnay
- Gabrielle Robinne
- Madeleine Renaud
- Marie Bell
- Fernand Ledoux
- Pierre Dux
- Gisèle Casadesus
- Julien Bertheau
- Louis Seigner
- Jean-Louis Barrault
- Raimu
- Jacques Charon
- Micheline Boudet
- Jean Davy
- Robert Hirsch
- Jean Piat
- Paul Meurisse
- Jean Yonnel
- Denise Gence
- Georges Descrières
- Jacques Sereys
- Jacques Toja
- Jean-Paul Roussillon
- François Chaumette
- Bernard Dhéran
- Catherine Samie
- Michel Etcheverry
- Renée Faure
- Michel Aumont
- René Camoin
- Michel Duchaussoy
- Françoise Seigner
- Paule Noëlle
- Isabelle Adjani
- Jean-Luc Boutté
- Catherine Hiegel
- Claude Giraud
- Francis Huster
- Patrice Kerbrat
- Jean Le Poulain
- Michel Favory
- Catherine Sauval
- Jean-Luc Bideau
- Philippe Torreton
- Andrzej Seweryn
- Michel Robin
- Éric Ruf
- Éric Génovèse
- Bruno Raffaeli
- Denis Podalydès
- Coraly Zahonero
- Florence Viala
21st century
507 : Françoise Gillard
508 : Céline Samie
509 : Clotilde de Bayser
510 : Jérôme Pouly
511 : Laurent Stocker
512 : Pierre Vial
513 : Guillaume Gallienne
514 : Laurent Natrella
515 : Michel Vuillermoz
516 : Elsa Lepoivre
517 : Christian Gonon
518 : Julie Sicard
519 : Loïc Corbery
520 : Léonie Simaga
521 : Serge Bagdassarian
522 : Hervé Pierre
523 : Bakary Sangaré
524 : Pierre Louis-Calixte
525 : Christian Hecq
526 : Nicolas Lormeau
527 : Gilles David
528 : Stéphane Varupenne
529 : Suliane Brahim
530 : Adeline d'Hermy
531 : Georgia Scalliet
532 : Jérémy Lopez
533 : Clément Hervieu-Léger
534 : Benjamin Lavernhe
535 : Sébastien Pouderoux
536 : Didier Sandre
537 : Christophe Montenez