Didier Sandre

Birthday: 1946-08-17
Birthplace: Paris, France
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	2025-07-19	Le Soulier de Satin	Don Pélage/Le second chancelier
	2022-10-19	The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess	Amon / Duc et Chambellan (voice)
	2022-05-04	The Passengers of the Night	Jean
	2019-09-30	An Officer and a Spy	General Boisdeffre
	2019-05-23	Électre / Oreste	Tyndare
	2018-12-09	Roméo et Juliette	Capulet
	2018-11-07	An Impossible Love	Philippe's Father
	2018-03-08	Le Petit-Maître Corrigé	Le Comte, père d'Hortense
	2017-09-20	Les Fourberies de Scapin	Géronte
	2017-06-17	Cyrano de Bergerac	de Guiche
	2016-07-06	Les Damnés	Joachim von Essenbeck
	2015-09-26	Les années perdues	Daniel Launey
	2014-04-30	Not My Type	Le père de Clément
	2013-03-05	Under the Rainbow	Guillaume Casseul
	2012-11-07	A.L.F.	Le psychiatre
	2012-04-10	Photo	Uriel
	2012-03-14	One Night	Le procureur Lacourt
	2010-11-24	Memory Lane	François
	2009-11-27	Sous un autre jour	Martin
	2009-05-17	Montparnasse	Serge
	2007-10-18	Moi, Louis enfant de la mine - Courrières 1906	Ricq
	2006-03-01	Hell	Le père de Hell
	2006-01-26	Lovers of the Café Flore	Georges de Beauvoir
	2003-12-20	Saint-Germain ou La négociation	M. de Méylines
	2003-02-12	The Legend of Princess Parva	Parva's father (voice)
	2002-12-12	L'enfant éternel	Richard
	1998-09-16	Passion interdite	Richard
	1998-09-07	A Tale of Autumn	Étienne
	1998-05-02	La femme d'un seul homme	Richard
	1994-10-05	Coming to Terms with the Dead	Vincent
	1993-05-26	Mensonge	Charles Melville
	1993-03-17	Boulevard des hirondelles	Pascal Capeau
	1992-11-13	Turbulences	Julien
	1989-12-28	Manon Roland	Robespierre
	1987-07-09	Le Soulier de Satin	Don Rodrigue
	1986-10-08	The Woman of My Life	Xavier
	1985-01-09	Hell Train	Dalbret
	1983-08-31	Shadow Dance	Gérard
	1983-01-05	Richelieu ou La journée des dupes	Cardinal de Richelieu
	1981-05-06	Peer Gynt	Quatrième jeune homme / Le troll de cour / Herr Von Eberkopf / Monsieur Plume / Un homme âgé / Le maigre