# Benjamin Lavernhe

Benjamin Lavernhe (French pronunciation:, born 14 August 1984) is a French actor.

## Career

After attending evening classes at Cours Florent, a private drama school in Paris, France, Lavernhe began taking free classes at Cours Florent, studying under the direction of, among others, Jean-Pierre Garnier and Loïc Corbery.
He began his acting career in 2008 by entering the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique. His first major role in theater came in 2011 when he played the role of Benvolio in a staging of the romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, directed by Olivier Py.
Since 2012, he has been a resident of the Comédie-Française.
He was nominated for two Molière Award: in 2018 for his lead role in Scapin the Schemer, directed by Denis Podalydès and in 2023 for his supporting role in The Lady from the Sea, directed by Géraldine Martineau.
He was also nominated three times for a César Award: once in the category Most Promising Actor for playing Pierre in C'est la vie!, directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, and twice in the category Best Supporting Actor for Love at Second Sight directed by Hugo Gélin and My Donkey, My Lover & I directed by Caroline Vignal.

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
| 2007 | L’Opéra du dragon | Heiner Müller | Joséphine Serre | |
| 2010 | Les Prétendants | Jean-Luc Lagarce | Mario Gonzalez | |
| 2011-12 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | Olivier Py | |
| 2012-13 | La Place royale | Pierre Corneille | Anne-Laure Liégeois | |
| 2013 | Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov | Alain Françon | |
| 2013 | Un fil à la patte | Georges Feydeau | Jérôme Deschamps | |
| 2013 | Troilus and Cressida | William Shakespeare | Jean-Yves Ruf | |
| 2013 | The Imaginary Invalid | Molière | Claude Stratz | |
| 2013-14 | Phèdre | Jean Racine | Michael Marmarinos | |
| 2013-15 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Dan Jemmett | |
| 2014 | Dom Juan | Molière | Jean-Pierre Vincent | |
| 2014-15 | The Misanthrope | Molière | Clément Hervieu-Léger | |
| 2014-15 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | Muriel Mayette-Holtz | |
| 2014-16 | The Italian Straw Hat | Eugène Labiche | Giorgio Barberio Corsetti | |
| 2014-19 | Lucrezia Borgia | Victor Hugo | Denis Podalydès | |
| 2015 | La Dame aux jambes d’azur | Eugène Labiche & Marc-Michel | Jean-Pierre Vincent | |
| 2016 | Britannicus | Jean Racine | Stéphane Braunschweig | |
| 2016 | L’Interlope | Serge Bagdassarian | Serge Bagdassarian | |
| 2016 | Un fil à la patte | Georges Feydeau | Jérôme Deschamps | |
| 2016 | Le Chant du cygne / L’Ours | Anton Chekhov | Maëlle Poésy | |
| 2016-17 | La Ronde | Arthur Schnitzler | Anne Kessler | |
| 2017-18 | The Tempest | William Shakespeare | Robert Carsen | |
| 2017-18 | The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir | Christiane Jatahy | |
| 2017-20 | Scapin the Schemer | Molière | Denis Podalydès | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor |
| 2018 | Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Valentine Losseau & Raphaël Navarro | |
| 2018 | L’Interlope | Serge Bagdassarian | Serge Bagdassarian | |
| 2019 | The Misanthrope | Molière | Clément Hervieu-Léger | |
| 2019-20 | Electra | Euripides | Ivo Van Hove | |
| 2022 | Cellule 107 | Robert Badinter | Bernard Murat | |
| 2022 | Le Mariage forcé | Molière | Louis Arene | |
| 2022 | Scapin the Schemer | Molière | Denis Podalydès | |
| 2023 | The Lady from the Sea | Henrik Ibsen | Géraldine Martineau | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2023 | The Threepenny Opera | Bertolt Brecht | Thomas Ostermeier | |

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 2009 | La cagnotte | Benjamin | Philippe Monnier | TV movie |
| 2010 | Les méchantes | Monsieur de la Resnois | Philippe Monnier | TV movie |
| 2012 | Radiostars | Smiters | Romain Levy | |
| 2012 | Pourquoi je fais ça? | Raphaël | Olivier Rosemberg | Short |
| 2013 | The Marchers | Thomas | Nabil Ben Yadir | |
| 2013 | Prenez une grande grande respiration | Caméron | Java Jacobs | Short |
| 2013-15 | Casting(s) | Benjamin | Pierre Niney & Hugo Gélin | TV series (11 episodes) |
| 2014 | Going Away | Thomas Cambière | Nicole Garcia | |
| 2014 | Libre et assoupi | Alexandre | Benjamin Guedj | |
| 2014 | Number One Fan | Guillaume | Jeanne Herry | |
| 2014 | France KBEK | Louis | Jonathan Cohen & Jérémie Galan | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2015 | SK1 | Frédéric Brunet | Frédéric Tellier | |
| 2015 | The Sweet Escape | Bernard | Bruno Podalydès | |
| 2015 | The Sense of Wonder | Pierre | Éric Besnard | |
| 2015 | Ictus érotique | Alain | Keren Marciano | Short |
| 2016 | The Odyssey | Jean-Michel Cousteau | Jérôme Salle | |
| 2016 | Rupture pour tous | Mathias | Éric Capitaine | |
| 2016 | Un entretien | The HRD | Julien Patry | Short |
| 2016 | L'âge de raison | George | Mathilde Petit | Short |
| 2017 | C'est la vie ! | Pierre | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor |
| 2018-21 | Un entretien | The HRD | Julien Patry | TV series (30 episodes) |
| 2019 | Curiosa | Henri de Régnier | Lou Jeunet | |
| 2019 | Love at Second Sight | Félix | Hugo Gélin | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2020 | My Donkey, My Lover & I | Vladimir Loubier | Caroline Vignal | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2020 | I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere | Mathieu Armanville | Arnaud Viard | |
| 2021 | Delicious | Duc de Chamfort | Éric Besnard | |
| 2021 | The Speech | Adrien | Laurent Tirard | |
| 2021 | The Accusation | Maître Arthur Célerier | Yvan Attal | |
| 2021 | The French Dispatch | Toothpowder Spokesman | Wes Anderson | |
| 2022 | Les engagés | David Vérand | Emilie Frèche | |
| 2022 | The Sixth Child | Julien Verlet | Léopold Legrand | |
| 2022 | Moitié.e.s | Benjamin | Félix Guimard | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2023 | Jeanne du Barry | Jean-Benjamin de La Borde | Maïwenn | |
| 2023 | Grand Expectations | Antoine Mandeville | Sylvain Desclous | |
| 2023 | Abbé Pierre – A Century of Devotion | Abbé Pierre | Frédéric Tellier | |
| 2024 | Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness | Monsieur Petit | Johnny Depp | |
| TBA | En fanfare | Thibaut | Emmanuel Courcol | Post-Production |