entered the Comédie-Française in 1955, he received the Molière for the best actor in 2006. He died at the age of 94, announced the Elysée on January 1.
by Edouard Pflimlin
It was a face that gave off kindness, illuminated by a large smile and a benevolent blue look, an elegant man with neat diction, virtuoso actor who marked the French theater. Jacques Sereys died at the age of 94, announced the Elysée on January 1, 2023.
Born on June 2, 1928, in Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne) of an unknown father, he was raised by his grandmother, cook in bourgeois houses, and his mother, embroiderer.
He spent his childhood in Marseille, where he lives above a perfume warehouse but dreams of an actor career in Paris. After the Second World War, when he was a young office boy in Crédit Lyonnais, he wrote in parallel poems he said in public and joined a troop of magazines for three years. He strives to lose his southern accent to enter the Comédie-Française.
Goldoni, favorite author
It was in 1947 that he arrived in Paris and made odd jobs, then left in Morocco performing his military service. On the return from the army, he became a listener at the conservatory and left it at 27 with the first two prizes of classical and modern comedy which opened the doors of French in 1955. Pierre Descaves, who received it on rue de Richelieu, declares to the world that “this actor who has already proven himself on the boulevards is capable of interpreting any role of composition. [He] Verr [Ait] even Quite well in small marquis “. But Jacques Sereys will consider himself limited in his roles and will only stay ten years.
He then plays in pieces by Sacha Guitry, Georges Feydeau and Raymond Castans, with original experiences, as in July 1967, where he plays, in English and in French, a play by André Roussin, a woman who says The truth, on the liner France between Le Havre and Cherbourg.
Fort the success of another play by André Roussin, Nina, he will return to the Comédie-Française in 1978, at the request of the administrator, Pierre Dux, until 1997. As the comedy French, “his masters are called Beaumarchais, Marivaux, his comrades Jacques Charon, Robert Hirsch, Jean Piat, Françoise Seigner”. He will triumph in the trilogy of the holiday resort, by Carlo Goldoni, directed by the Italian Giorgio Strehler, in December 1978. Goldoni will be the favorite author of the one who becomes a stage beast. Humble on his job, he declares that he is different on the boards: “When I’m on stage, everything changes. I become someone else. I am there for the public.” His career is crowned several times. He became honorary members of the French in 1997. And, in 2006, Jean-Luc Tardieu, who staged him alone on the side of Proust, allows him to obtain the Molière for the best actor.
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