Valérie Dréville

Valérie Dréville trained at the Théâtre national de Chaillot (with Antoine Vitez, Yannis Kokkos, Aurélien Recoing and Georges Aperghis) and at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique de Paris (with Viviane Théophilides, Claude Régy, Gérard Desarthe and Daniel Mesguich). Her theatre career was marked by her meeting Antoine Vitez, her teacher at Chaillot, who directed her in Électre, Le Soulier de satin, La Célestine and La Vie de Galilée (Comédie-Française). She joined the Comédie-Française in 1988, leaving in 1993. There she played Racine's Iphigénie under the direction of Yannis Kokkos. She also acted under the direction of Claude Régy in Le Criminel by Leslie Kaplan, La Terrible Voix de Satan by Gregory Motton, Quelqu'un va venir by Jon Fosse, Des couteaux dans les poules by David Harrower, Variations sur la mort by Jon Fosse, Comme un chant de David, traduction des psaumes by Henri Meschonnic, La Mort de Tintagiles by Maurice Maeterlinck. Her film credits include major roles in La Sentinelle, directed by Arnaud Desplechin, and La Maladie de Sachs, directed by Michel Deville. She also played Racine's Phèdre under the direction of Luc Bondy at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe. In recent years she has travelled regularly to Russia to work with Anatoli Vassiliev and his company. Médée-Matériau by Heiner Müller premiered in Moscow in 2001, and has since toured the world (Paris, Avignon, Rennes, Spain, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands...). In 2018, she starred in Le Récit d'un homme inconnu based on Chekhov's novella, again directed by Anatoli Vassiliev, with Sava Lolov, Stanislas Nordey and Romane Rassendren. She is an associate artist at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg.