Jérôme Deschamps, born Neuilly-sur-Seine on 5 October 1947, is an actor, director and stage author, as well as a cinema actor and director associated with the Famille Deschiens troupe founded by Macha Makeïeff in 1978. In 2003 he was appointed artistic director of the Théâtre national de Nîmes, leaving that post for the equivalent at the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique in June 2007, where he remained until 2015. Deschamps is the nephew of Hubert Deschamps and his mother was the distant half cousin to Micheline Winter who married Jacques Tati, Upon the release of the animated film The Illusionist this non-biological relationship to Tati has been openly challenged by the grandchildren of Jacques Tati in a published letter to Roger Ebert. He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand where he met Patrice Chéreau and Jean-Pierre Vincent with whom he made his first stage appearances, before moving toward a professional career in theatre, at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre and the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique de Paris. He joined the Comédie-Française under Antoine Vitez and directed his first play in 1977. In 1979 Jérôme Deschamps was advised by Jacques Tati on Les Oubliettes and created a play Les Deschiens from Antoine Vitez's commission for the Ivry spring. In 1981, with Makeieff he founded the Les Deschiens company, which in 1993 became a television series on Canal+ with Yolande Moreau. He was the director of the 6th Festival du court-métrage de Saint Maur in 2008. Source: Article "Jérôme Deschamps" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• Le Rouge et le Noir — Abbé Chélan
• 2026Mrs. — André Casella
• 2023Constance aux enfers — Lorelle
• 2023Goodbye Vinyle — Antoine Meliot
• 2023L’Avare de Molière — Harpagon, Stage Director
• 2022A Radiant Girl — Le médecin
• 2022Les Brigands — Stage Director
• 2021Le Bourgeois gentilhomme — Monsieur Jourdain, Director
• 2020An Irrepressible Woman — Georges Mandel
• La Garçonne — Dr Paul
• 2017Number One — Le PDG de Theorès
• Capitaine Marleau — Charles Le Tallec
• 2014Clear Skies, Light Breeze — Producer
• 2013Ciboulette — Le directeur d'opéra
• 2010My Afternoons with Margueritte — Le maire
• 2010Un fil à la patte — Stage Director
• 2009La Cour des Grands — Screenplay, Writer
• 2009The True Story of Puss 'n Boots — Le chat, Director
• 2007Splendeur et gloire des Deschiens — Director
• 2005Everything Is Beautiful: Fashion — Producer
• 2005Everything's Connected — Producer
• 2003Les Deschiens - série moderne — Director
• 2003Les filles, personne s'en méfie — Director
• 1999Les Deschiens : Qui va m'aimer ? — Director
• 1998Desproges est vivant
• 1998Je suis vivante et je vous aime — Julien
• 1997Les Précieuses ridicules — Stage Director
• 1996Line of Life
• 1994La Séparation — Victor
• 1994Les Deschiens - C'est magnifique — Director
• Les Deschiens — Director, Creator
• 1993Les Deschiens - Les pieds dans l'eau — Director
• Maigret — Prosper
• 1990Les Deschiens - Les Frères Zenith — Writer, Director, Stage Director
• 1989Les Deschiens - Lapin chasseur — Director, Author
• 1987A Man in Love — La Veillee Actor
• 1977Partage de midi — De Ciz
• 1975Ondine — alouin
• 1974Loving in the Rain
• 1973The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob — Friend of Alexandre (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2013Professor Goudet's Lessons — Self
• 2013Tati…par le geste — Self
• Un film et son époque — Self