Acting
Jun 8, 1976
Avignon, France
Loïc Corbery
Acting
Biography
Originally from Avignon, he quickly discovered the theater thanks to his parents (his father was an engineer and his mother a professor of literature). At the age of six, he accidentally met Agnès Varda, who cast him in the short film she was shooting in Avignon at the time. The short film is called 7 rooms kitchen and bathroom. After his baccalaureate, he left for Paris to follow theatrical studies at the Périmony course. He then joined the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where he studied from 1997 to 2000, in the classes of Stuart Seide and Jacques Lassalle. In 2003, he played in Le jour du destin and won a nomination for the Molières 2004 for male theatrical revelation. In addition to the theatre, he can be seen in several French television series, most often for an episode, but he also held recurring roles, such as in the series Commissaire Valence, broadcast on TF1, with Bernard Tapie in the title role. Loïc Corbery receiving the Swann d'Or at the 2014 Cabourg Film Festival. He joined the Comédie-Française in 2005, where he was particularly noticed for his interpretations in Le Cid by Pierre Corneille, directed by Brigitte Jaques and The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, directed by Oskaras Koršunovas. He became a member in 2010. The artistic direction of the tribute to Molière was entrusted to him in 2009.
Feature Films (42)
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
A Day at the Museum
An unusual visit to a large, empty apartment. But is it empty or not? Maybe a family has lived there or is going to live there. Maybe a young girl is going to escape from there. Maybe some of the old-timers who lived there never left. The walls themselves tell the stories of the time passing by.
Seven Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom, for Sale
Jeanne writes during WW II for a French clandestine journal. She is engaged to resistant leader Victor Devère but has a love affair with the young resistant Marc Hétier. But is Marc really trustworthy?
Jeanne Devère
Manuel passes 18 months at Buchenwald before his return to Paris. He wonders even before his arrival who will have the patience and passion to listen to his narrative. He chooses silence.
Le Temps du silence
June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.
De Gaulle: Résistance
Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and bodies as they try to overcome the cultural and social divide between them.
Not My Type
The Forest is both a vibrantly spontaneous and brutally funny family drama, and a glorious tribute to acting and theater - in other words, an Arnaud Desplechin film. With Michel Vuillermoz and Denis Podalydès as the nephew and his friend, Adeline D’Hermy as the niece, and Martine Chevallier in a stunning performance as the sublimely selfish aunt Raissa.
The Forest
This Great War drama opens in the trenches during an artillery bombardment. Receiving bayonet wounds, young Simon (Guillaume Depardieu) drops out of the action, joining other injured soldiers at a Brittany hospital. One day he meets schoolteacher Marthe (Clotilde Courau), who lives in the household of the hospital's head doctor (Bernard Giraudeau). Soon a romance begins to develop. Cinematography by Kevin Jewison, son of director Norman Jewison.
Marthe
When Julie finally lands a job at a luxury shoemaker, her dreams of stability collapse as the owner threatens to close the factory. Together with an intrepid group of women, they decide to resist, bringing back to life a bold and elegant shoe model to save the renowned brand. But when Samy, a young truck driver as wily as charming, jumps in the middle of the fight, this is no longer the same song.
Footnotes
Woman hero Dom Juan lives a life full of excesses and love affairs. When he seduces the nun Elvire, but shows no interest in her a short time later, he gets to deal with her vengeful brothers. Dom Juan and his assistant Sganarelle have to flee and set out on a journey full of strange encounters.
Dom Juan & Sganarelle
Television & Series (6)
A vision of youth in Western Europe in the 50s, literature, jazz, politics and wars intermingle in their dreams, ideals and their first loves.
Ah, c'était ça la vie!
Set in the shrine of French dance, the Garnier Opera house, L'Opera follows three characters whose dreams clash with reality, whose ambitions collide with expectations, and whose purity faces corruption.
L'Opéra
Returning to Paris after exile from Hollywood, Judith is intent of making a comeback with a new movie. However, her 16-year-old daughter falls in love with her much older dance teacher and Judith is forced to deal with personal ambition, maternal anxiety and the demons of her past with humor and disillusion.
Icon of French Cinema
Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.