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Laurent Papot, born in 1978, is a French actor who trained at Cours Florent from 1996 to 1998. He began his career early in theater, notably playing Nero in Jean Racine's tragedy Britannicus at the Bastia National Theater. He later founded his own company with director Séverine Chavrier, resulting in about a dozen productions, including "Les Palmiers Sauvages," adapted from W. Faulkner's novel, and "We are sated but not repented," a creation inspired by Thomas Bernhard's Lunch at Wittgenstein. These shows, first staged in Switzerland at Vidy Lausanne, were subsequently performed at Paris's renowned Odeon Theater and toured across France and internationally. Their collaboration continues at the National Drama Center of Orleans, led by Séverine Chavrier since 2017, with an upcoming adaptation of Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" in development.
Recognized for his performances in "Wild Palms" and "We are sated..."—which earned him best actor honors for the 2016/2017 season from a specialized theater magazine—he has worked with notable directors such as Ivo Van Hove in "A View from the Bridge," Nicolas Stemann in an adaptation of the German literary classic "Nathan the Wise," and Australian director Simon Stone, who cast him as Nicolas (Tozenbach) in his reinterpretation of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters."
This year, he will portray Edmond in William Shakespeare's "King Lear," directed by G. Lavaudant.
Alongside his theater work, Laurent Papot has a growing film career. He has collaborated with Guillaume Brac ("Un monde sans femme"), Philippe Ulysse ("I Was Your River"), Jules Zingg ("The Neighbors," "Kudoh," "The Rests"), Hugo Dillon ("Fraigers"), Carlos Abascal Peiro ("Fair Play," "Operation Finot"), Marc Colin ("The Shock of the Future"), and Pierre Schoeller ("A People and Its King"). He has developed a close working relationship with Vincent Macaigne, who cast him in theater and in his first feature film, "Pour le Réconfort." This year, Papot stars in "Municipal," a docu-fiction by Thomas Paulot, and appears in the highly anticipated "Harry Haft" by Barry Levinson, acting alongside Ben Foster.
