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Clémentine Célarié (born 12 October 1957) is a French actress, comedian, writer, director and singer.
Life and career
She was born as Meryem Célarié in Dakar in what was then the French colony of Senegal on 12 October 1957. After passing her Baccalaureate, she spent a year living in the United States. Back in France, she took acting lessons and became an actress.
She has three sons, Abraham, Gustave and Balthazar. She lives in Aix-en-Provence.
In the media
In 1994 on the set of a TV Show for Sidaction, after Christopher Dechavanne recalled the risky practices of contamination, she kissed the young man with HIV, to contribute to the fight against misconceptions about HIV.
Clementine officially supports Francois Hollande for the presidential election of 2012, for example by being present during his meeting in Limoges on 27 April; she was also the first artist to express her joy at the election night on 6 May, live from the Bastille.
Author
- 2003 : Marcella (Calmann-Lévy)
- 2007 : Mes Ailes (Michel Lafon)
- 2012 : Les Amoureuses (Le Cherche midi)
- 2015 : On s'Aimera (Le Cherche midi)
Theatre
| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller | P. Casari | |
| 1984 | The Annunciation of Marie | Paul Claudel | P. Casari (2) | |
| 1987 | The House of Bernarda Alba | Federico García Lorca | Janine Berdin | |
| 1989 | Marcella | Clémentine Célarié | C. Reichert | |
| 1994 | The Odd Couple | Neil Simon | Bernard Murat | |
| 1997 | Die Goldberg Variationnen | George Tabori | Daniel Benoin | |
| Dérapage | Arthur Miller | Jérôme Savary | ||
| 2001 | Madame Sans-Gêne | Victorien Sardou & Émile Moreau | Alain Sachs | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actress |
| 2003 | La Fesse cachée de la lune | Frédéric Longbois | Clémentine Célarié | |
| 2004 | Mon cabaret | Clémentine Célarié | Clémentine Célarié (2) | |
| Électrocardiogramme | Florence Savignat | Clémentine Célarié (3) | ||
| 2005 | Madame sans chaînes | Clémentine Célarié | Abraham Diallo | One-woman show |
| 2005-06 | Le Journal | Jules Renard | Clémentine Célarié (4) | |
| 2006 | Les Grandes Occasions | Bernard Slade | Bernard Murat (2) | |
| 2008 | La Tectonique des sentiments | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | |
| Prenez garde à l'amour | Guy de Maupassant | Manuel Durand & Gabor Rassov | ||
| Ma vie d'extra-terrestre | Patricia Assouline, Claude Fraize & Audrey Lemoine | Clémentine Célarié (5) | ||
| 2009 | Pour Bobby | Serge Valletti | Christophe Correia | |
| La Serva amorosa | Carlo Goldoni | Christophe Lidon | ||
| 2011 | Madame Sans-Gêne | Victorien Sardou & Émile Moreau | Alain Sachs (2) | |
| Des Nouvelles de Maupassant | Guy de Maupassant | Thierry Monfray | ||
| 2011-13 | Black Like Me | John Howard Griffin | Clémentine Célarié (6) | |
| 2012 | Calamity Jane | Jean-Noël Fenwick | Alain Sachs (3) | |
| 2013-15 | La Danse immobile | Clémentine Célarié & Thierry Monfray | Clémentine Célarié (7) | |
| 2015 | Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman | Stefan Zweig | Steve Suissa | |
| 2016 | Le Monde de Rita | Clémentine Célarié | Clémentine Célarié (8) | |
| Darius | Jean-Benoît Patricot | Anne Bouvier | ||
| 2019 | Une vie | Guy de Maupassant | Arnaud Denis |