Didier Sandre

Known for ActingBorn 1946-08-17 (age 79)Paris, France

Didier Maffre, known professionally as Didier Sandre, is a French actor and stage director born in Paris on 17 August 1946 and appointed sociétaire of the Comédie‑Française in 2020. He made his debut in 1968 in Paul Claudel’s L’Échange and, from the 1970s onward, became a prominent figure in public theatre, collaborating with major directors such as Catherine Dasté, Bernard Sobel, Jorge Lavelli, Patrice Chéreau, Giorgio Strehler, Luc Bondy, and Antoine Vitez. Alongside this, he has appeared regularly in private‑theatre productions, including works by Claudel, Anouilh, Rampal, and Margulies. His stage career includes notable performances in Bérénice (directed by Lambert Wilson), Le Laboureur de Bohême (Christian Schiaretti), and Monsieur chasse! by Feydeau. He joined the Comédie‑Française in 2013 and became a full member in 2020. Sandre has also worked extensively in film and television, appearing in Pascale Ferran’s Petits Arrangements avec les morts, Éric Rohmer’s Autumn Tale, Abraham Segal’s Le Mystère Paul, and Mikhaël Hers’s Memory Lane. On television, he has acted in numerous dramas, including Saint‑Germain ou la Négociation, Le Sang noir, and notably portrayed Louis XIV in Nina Companeez’s L’Allée du Roi and the Baron de Charlus in her adaptation of In Search of Lost Time. A frequent narrator in concert settings, he has performed in major repertoire works by Stravinsky, Debussy, Beethoven, Honegger, Haydn, Prokofiev, Grieg, Poulenc, and others, collaborating with leading orchestras, conductors such as Pierre Boulez and Myung‑Whun Chung, and renowned soloists including Alexandre Tharaud, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, and Emmanuelle Bertrand.Read more

Movies & web series

La femme d'un seul homme

Turbulences

Les Grandes Familles

Shadow Dance

Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique

Le Cid

A.L.F.

Richelieu ou La journée des dupes

Montparnasse

An Officer and a Spy

The Legend of Princess Parva

Cyrano de Bergerac

The Passengers of the Night

A Tale of Autumn

Saint-Germain ou La négociation

Manon Roland

Hell

An Impossible Love

Passion interdite

The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess

Coming to Terms with the Dead

Not My Type

François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story

Memory Lane

Le Petit-Maître Corrigé

Les années perdues

L'enfant éternel

Origins of Life

Boulevard des hirondelles

The Woman of My Life

Under the Rainbow

One Night

Lovers of the Café Flore

L'Allée du roi

Icon of French Cinema

Photo

Hell Train

À la recherche du temps perdu

The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne

Mensonge

Sous un autre jour

Les Damnés

Le Soulier de Satin

Électre / Oreste

Roméo et Juliette

Les Fourberies de Scapin

Moi, Louis enfant de la mine - Courrières 1906

L'allée du Roi (Version courte)