MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Screenwriter
French nationality
Birth July 30, 1979 (Troyes, Aube – France)
BIOGRAPHY
The daughter of civil servants, Clotilde Hesme grew up in a rural town. Her training as an actress went through the free class of the Cours Florent then the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where her teachers were Daniel Mesguich and Catherine Hiegel . Passionate about theater, she had her first filming experiences by participating in a short film with Gad Elmaleh in 1999 then in a clip by Alain Chamfort by Patrice Leconte .
Seen in Olga’s Chignon (2001) and See You Tonight. , Clotilde Hesme is chosen by Philippe Garrel (with whom she worked at the Conservatory) to form with her son Louis the central couple of Regular Amants (2005). With her mixture of freshness and melancholy, the actress illuminates this intimate evocation of May 68. Always in the company of Louis Garrel, she wanders through today’s Paris as seen by Christophe Honoré : it is Les Chansons d’amour , a sentimental and musical film presented at Cannes in 2007. The same year, she took her charm and fantasy to the country roads crossed by The Grocer’s Son .
The actress asserts her status with demanding and seasoned directors such as Bertrand Bonello ( De la guerre , 2008) or the Larrieu brothers ( Les Derniers jours du monde , 2009), while maintaining a close collaboration with Christophe Honoré whom she finds at the once in the theater during the Avignon Festival and for his revisited adaptation of La Princesse de Clèves , La Belle Personne . The following year she headed to Portugal where she immersed herself in the Mysteries of Lisbon , which offered her a first collaboration with a foreign director, the Chilean Raoul Ruiz . Her friend, director Alix Delaporte, called on her to play a complicated love story in Angèle et Tony . For this role, she won the César for Most Promising Actress. Now rewarded by the profession, Clotilde Hesme continues to shoot for the cinema while simultaneously carrying out her various projects in the theater. In 2012, she starred in the drama Trois Mondes by Catherine Corsini but above all she was Adèle, one of the key characters in the hit series Les Revenants
. After his César, this role once again allowed him to broaden his audience. Starring in the melodrama Pour une femme by Diane Kurys , she was once again offered a role by Alix Delaporte in Le Dernier coup de hammer , where she found Grégory Gadebois , her accomplice from Angèle and Tony. For this role of a woman suffering from cancer, the actress does not hesitate to shave her head. Her performance was unanimously praised and she won the Best Actress prize at the 2014 Marrakech International Film Festival. An
actress both at ease in drama and lighter registers, we find her in the role of Eva, a young whimsical woman in L’Echappée Belle , Emilie Cherpitel ‘s first film . We will soon see her on the poster for the historical film Chocolat by Roschdy Zem , a biopic on Chocolat who was the first black clown on the French scene, and in which she will star opposite Omar Sy .
