The 57-year-old actor, who has been seen both on television and in the cinema, becomes a resident of the prestigious institution. He will play at the start of the school year in Imaginary sick.
Thierry Godard, who we have seen a lot on television and in the cinema in recent years, returns to the stage. Going through the big door. The 57-year-old actor, with around twenty small and large roles in the cinema, and around fifty TV films and series behind him, becomes a resident of the Comédie-Française.
From the start of the school year, at the Palais-Royal, he will play Monsieur Diafoirus and Monsieur Purgon, the ridiculous doctors of the Imaginary illness. Directed by Claude Stratz, who died in 2007.
Revealed by the series Gears
A trained cabinetmaker who fell in love with great texts as a teenager, Thierry Godard saw his career take off thanks to the success of the detective series Gearsone of the flagships of Canal + broadcast from 2005 to 2020. He played more recently in Black Heartsa series from Amazon Prime Video and France Télévisions, which delved into the world of special forces.
In the cinema, he portrayed a far-right candidate in The World of Yesterday (2022) from director Diastème. In 2019, he played in The Holy Familya fairly original comedy by Louis-Do de Lencquesaing.
On the theater side, Thierry Godard has in the past used texts by Marguerite Duras, Harold Pinter and August Strindberg (Mademoiselle Juliein 2012, in a staging by Robin Renucci).
At the Comédie-Française, he joins a troupe of 22 residents and 38 members – he must wait at least a year and be co-opted during a vote to join the members. A month ago, Laurent Lafitte, in great demand in the cinema, announced that he was leaving the institution he had joined in 2012.