Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française

The sociétaires of the Comédie-Française are chosen from among the pensionnaires who have been in the company a year or more.

They are decided upon in the course of a general assembly of the company's administrative committee, made up of 6 existing sociétaires, the senior sociétaire, and the general administrator. A pensionnaire is thus named a societaire by a decree of the Ministry of Culture, from names put forward by the general administrator of the Comédie-Française. On becoming a sociétaire, an actor automatically becomes a member of the Société des Comédiens-Français and receives a share of the profits as well as receiving a number of shares in the société to which he or she is contractually linked.

After his or her retirement, a sociétaire can continue to act, becoming an honorary sociétaire. The senior member of the Comédie-Française is not the oldest sociétaire, but the sociétaire who has been with the company longest (since their entering it as a pensionnaire).

17th century

 * Michel Baron (1680)
 * Rosimond (1680)
 * Armande Béjart (1680)
 * Mademoiselle de Brie (1680)
 * Champmeslé (1680)
 * Marie Champmeslé (1680)
 * Mademoiselle Du Croisy (1680)
 * Charles Varlet de La Grange (1680)
 * Mademoiselle La Grange (1680)
 * Raymond Poisson, known as Belleroche (1680)
 * Brécourt (1682)
 * Dancourt (1685)
 * Jean Quinault (1695)
 * Charlotte Desmares (1699)

18th century

 * Quinault-Dufresne (1712)
 * Adrienne Lecouvreur (1717)
 * Jeanne Gaussin (1731)
 * Marie Dumesnil (1738)
 * Mademoiselle Clairon (1743)
 * Marie Brillant (1750)
 * Lekain (1751)
 * Mademoiselle Hus (1753)
 * Préville (1753)
 * Dalainville (1758)
 * François Molé (1761)
 * Jacques Marie Boutet (1772)
 * Dugazon (1772)
 * Monvel (1772)
 * Dazincourt (1778)


 * Amélie-Julie Candeille (1785)
 * Mademoiselle Lange (1788)
 * Talma (1789)
 * Madame Desgarcins (1789)
 * Mademoiselle Fleury (1791)
 * Grandmesnil (1792)
 * Mademoiselle Mars (1799)

19th century

 * Mademoiselle George (1804)
 * Mademoiselle Anaïs (1832)
 * Regnier (1835)
 * Rachel (1842)
 * Clémentine Jouassain (1863)
 * Coquelin aîné (1864)
 * Jeanne Samary (1874)
 * Mounet-Sully (1874)
 * Sarah Bernhardt (1875)
 * Jules Truffier (1888)
 * Marguerite Moreno (1890)
 * Jeanne Ludwig (1893)
 * Marthe Brandès (1896)
 * Raphaël Duflos (1896)

20th century

 * Cécile Sorel (1904)
 * Berthe Cerny (1909)
 * Gabrielle Colonna-Romano (1913)
 * Denis d'Inès (1920)
 * Mary Marquet (1923)
 * Pierre Fresnay (1924)
 * Gabrielle Robinne (1924)
 * Madeleine Renaud (1928)
 * Marie Bell (1928)
 * Fernand Ledoux (1931)
 * Pierre Dux (1935)
 * Gisèle Casadesus (1938)
 * Julien Bertheau (1942)
 * Louis Seigner (1943)
 * Jean-Louis Barrault (1943)
 * Raimu (1944)
 * Jacques Charon (1947)
 * Micheline Boudet (1950)
 * Jean Davy (1950)
 * Robert Hirsch (1952)
 * Jean Piat (1953)
 * Paul Meurisse (1956)
 * Jean Yonnel (1956)
 * Denise Gence (1958)
 * Georges Descrières (1958)
 * Jacques Sereys (1959)
 * Jacques Toja
 * Jean-Paul Roussillon (1960)
 * François Chaumette (1960)
 * Bernard Dhéran (1961)
 * Catherine Samie (1962)
 * Michel Etcheverry (1964)
 * Renée Faure (1965)
 * Michel Aumont (1965)
 * René Camoin (1966)
 * Michel Duchaussoy (1967)
 * Françoise Seigner (1968)
 * Paule Noëlle (1969)
 * Isabelle Adjani (1972)
 * Jean-Luc Boutté (1975)
 * Catherine Hiegel (1976)
 * Claude Giraud (1976)
 * Francis Huster (1977)
 * Patrice Kerbrat (1977)
 * Jean Le Poulain (1981)
 * Martine Chevallier (1988)
 * Michel Favory (1988)
 * Catherine Sauval (1989)
 * Jean-Luc Bideau (1991)
 * Philippe Torreton (1994)
 * Andrzej Seweryn (1995)
 * Michel Robin (1996)
 * Éric Ruf (1998)
 * Éric Génovèse (1998)
 * Bruno Raffaeli (1998)
 * Denis Podalydès (2000)
 * Coraly Zahonero (2000)
 * Florence Viala (2000)

21st century

 * Alexandre Pavloff (2002)
 * Françoise Gillard (2002)
 * Céline Samie (2004)
 * Clotilde de Bayser (2004)
 * Jérôme Pouly (2004)
 * Laurent Stocker (2004)
 * Pierre Vial (2005)
 * Guillaume Gallienne (2005)
 * Laurent Natrella (2007)
 * Michel Vuillermoz (2007)
 * Elsa Lepoivre (2007)
 * Christian Gonon (2009)
 * Julie Sicard (2009)
 * Loïc Corbery (2010)
 * Léonie Simaga (2010)
 * Serge Bagdassarian (2011)
 * Hervé Pierre (2011)
 * Bakary Sangaré (2013)
 * Pierre Louis-Calixte (2013)
 * Christian Hecq (2013)
 * Nicolas Lormeau (2014)
 * Gilles David (2014)
 * Stéphane Varupenne (2015)
 * Suliane Brahim (2016)
 * Adeline d'Hermy (2016)
 * Georgia Scalliet (2017)
 * Jérémy Lopez (2017)
 * Clément Hervieu-Léger (2018)
 * Benjamin Lavernhe (2019)
 * Sébastien Pouderoux (2019)
 * Didier Sandre (2020)
 * Christophe Montenez (2020)