Jérôme Deschamps

Biography

Jérôme Deschamps, born Neuilly-sur-Seine on 5 October 1947, is an actor, director and stage author, as well as a cinema actor and director associated with the Famille Deschiens troupe founded by Macha Makeïeff in 1978. In 2003 he was appointed artistic director of the Théâtre national de Nîmes, leaving that post for the equivalent at the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique in June 2007, where he remained until 2015. Deschamps is the nephew of Hubert Deschamps and his mother was the distant half cousin to Micheline Winter who married Jacques Tati, Upon the release of the animated film The Illusionist this non-biological relationship to Tati has been openly challenged by the grandchildren of Jacques Tati in a published letter to Roger Ebert. He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand where he met Patrice Chéreau and Jean-Pierre Vincent with whom he made his first stage appearances, before moving toward a professional career in theatre, at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre and the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique de Paris. He joined the Comédie-Française under Antoine Vitez and directed his first play in 1977. In 1979 Jérôme Deschamps was…

Directed

1. The True Story of Puss 'n Boots (2009) — Director
2. Les Deschiens - série moderne (2003) — Director
3. Les Deschiens (1993) — Director
4. Les Deschiens - Lapin chasseur (1989) — Director
5. Les Deschiens : Qui va m'aimer ? (1999) — Director
6. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (2021) — Director
7. Splendeur et gloire des Deschiens (2007) — Director
8. Les Deschiens - C'est magnifique (1994) — Director
9. Les Deschiens - Les Frères Zenith (1990) — Director
10. Les Deschiens - Les pieds dans l'eau (1993) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973) — Friend of Alexandre (uncredited)
2. My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010) — Le maire
3. Number One (2017) — Le PDG de Theorès
4. The True Story of Puss 'n Boots (2009) — Le chat
5. Capitaine Marleau (2015) — Charles Le Tallec
6. La Séparation (1994) — Victor
7. An Irrepressible Woman (2020) — Georges Mandel
8. Maigret (1991) — Prosper
9. A Man in Love (1987) — La Veillee Actor
10. Constance aux enfers (2023) — Lorelle
11. Loving in the Rain (1974)
12. La Garçonne (2020) — Dr Paul
13. Mrs. (2026) — André Casella
14. Line of Life (1996)
15. Goodbye Vinyle (2023) — Antoine Meliot
16. Ondine (1975) — alouin
17. Les filles, personne s'en méfie (2003) — Director
18. Partage de midi (1977) — De Ciz
19. Je suis vivante et je vous aime (1998) — Julien
20. Desproges est vivant (1998)
21. Un film et son époque (2003) — Self
22. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (2021) — Monsieur Jourdain
23. L’Avare de Molière (2023) — Harpagon
24. Ciboulette (2013) — Le directeur d'opéra
25. Les Précieuses ridicules (1997)
26. Les Deschiens - Les Frères Zenith (1990)
27. Professor Goudet's Lessons (2013) — Self
28. Tati…par le geste (2013) — Self
29. Le Rouge et le Noir (2026) — Abbé Chélan